RE: [microsound] ostrichug

[Falcata Galia Recordings <fgrecs@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Spoken like a true jerk who spent way too much time reading Situationist
International, Deleuze and Das Kapital.  What about the comment on
Macedonia?  Wild style?  No, you jackass, I went to make sure my mates and
people who have provided me music for my label were okay.  I owe it to them
not only as a sort of "boss," but as their friend, to go down there even if
there is a war.  Which is much more than what most anyone would do for their
mates.

Quit pretending to be such an expert on capitalism.  You're not on the board
of any bank, nor a Rothschild, nor a member of the Bank of England, nor a
worker at the Hang Seng Index...  You sound like the sort of whiny communist
you find in every school in Europe and parts of America that eventually
grows out of those near-freakish ideas eventually.  What we have here in the
US is very, very simple.  People were killed.  We have a REAL good idea who
did it.  They're going to pay for it, whether we like it or not.  End of
story.

Let those who need to grieve do so.  If it was one of you mates or your
mother who died, or if you've never witnessed absolute carnage before, it
can bring the hardest stones to tears.

And PLEASE quit dropping Chomsky's name.  As much as I find him a great
read, he has almost nil effect on society with the exception of a handful of
hyper-intellectuals, Deleuze-ional evangelists and kids who go to the malls,
dye their hair cobalt blue and wear "Rage Against The Machine (Sony
Records)" shirts and consider themselves the height of the avant garde.
Bless Noam, but he has a small audience.  He'll be remembered as a wise man
in the future, and as a nut for now.

Rudy

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From: weer1@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:weer1@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 11:43 PM
To: microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [microsound] ostrichug




 I really liked the comment about Macedonia, hotels and Texas...are you doin
it wild style with a 'progressive' tabloid owner or taking lithium or both.
The point is that we control these economies uunequivocably and they are the
necassary economies that turn the cogs of productive desire within
'flexibly accumulative' capitalism of which we are all a part. Also inherent
within this system is a country that deals in terrorism and has done every
day of every year for the past 50 years. Whether this be the (not so)
abstracted version of economic sanctioning against Cuba or whether it be the
overt violence of the Gulf war, the USA trades in violence, its built upon
economies and narratives of war....it needs the spectre of terrorism .....it
needs the violence of terrorism to justify its own huge indsutries and
economies of violence. If there was no enemy, no violence, then the USA (and
the rest of the first world waitress's)  would not be able to propogate
their day to day existence which is based upon there being a global
underclass that churns out products and spends the money on buying weapons
for civil war's. This is a crass reduction but then so are peoples attention
and I'm reaching my TV sinbin time period here.

I don't see how WTC is more tragic than the everyday violence of USA
internal and foreign policy. Sure its quicker...so 30,000 people die in 20
seconds rather than over 1 month in the middle east. The abstraction of
violence through distance and time is such a well worn and used strategy and
even our wonderful liberals don't seem to get it. Why be so sorrowful
because mass death comes in the reductive temporality of a terrorsit attack
when the way we live as first world citizens from day to day reinforces a
slower and more massive violence globally every day. The oh so human sorrow
from these events is endemic within a culture which regards itself as
somehow more human than those who fall outside of its identity range. Why
not feel sick with frustration, sorrow and compassion every day given that
state sanctioned attrocities are every day life for so many people around
the globe.