Re: [microsound] [Fwd: [AfroFuturism] Arundhati Roy: Confronting Empire] [OT]

[Ben <bent@xxxxxxxxx>]

I can't argue with you about the fact that this post was off-topic (and 
was labled as such) but if you actually read the attached article and 
still think that it's empty-headed rambling, then you are a class-a 
moron. I love music and sound and spend a great deal of my time playing 
around with them. But I am certainly not fool enough to think that this 
self-indulgent distraction is of any significane in the grand scope. The 
alarming rate at which this planet is being sucked dry,  at which 
power-brokers are manipulating society and law to their own benefit and 
the stunningly transparent farce--with respect to Iraq--which is being 
carried out on the world stage are grave matters which should be of 
interest to ANY mailing list in any language in any part of the world. 
It's not as if the OT post was about stamp collecting, fer chrissakes.

I urge you to read the article attached to the parent again and think 
hard about what it says. If you still seek idle chit chat about 
self-indlugent electronic meanderings, then I wish you all the best... 
may you enjoy your listening as the world crumbles around you.

b

And actually, there is generally very little discussion about music on 
this list...

dtaylor@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

>Hi!
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>Can we yack about music on this list, instead of posting our empty headed
>ramblings like the one below?
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>on 2/2/03 12:33 PM, dbuchwald at dagmar.buchwald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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>>"When George Bush says "you're either with us, or you are with the
>>terrorists" we can say "No thank you." We can let him know that the
>>people of the world do not need to choose between a Malevolent Mickey
>>Mouse and the Mad Mullahs.
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>>Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to
>>it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our
>>music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our
>>sheer relentlessness - and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories
>>that are different from the ones we're being brainwashed to believe.
>>The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are
>>selling - their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their
>>weapons, their notion of inevitability.
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>>Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we
>>need them.
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>>Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I
>>can hear her breathing."
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>>Here is the whole article as posted by Paul D. Miller/DJ SpooKy in the
>>afrofuturism mailing list.  Might be of interest to some people in this list,
>>too:
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