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

["dtaylor@xxxxxxxxx" <dtaylor@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello?

Why would I read the article, it's not about music!?

I don't care what the stupid article said, or the monkey who wrote it...
You're the class a moron for thinking that anyone would read an off topic
post, you dope.

Talk about music here, or shut the hell up, dullard.

on 2/2/03 1:27 PM, Ben at bent@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> 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!
>> 
>> Can we yack about music on this list, instead of posting our empty headed
>> ramblings like the one below?
>> 
>> 
>> on 2/2/03 12:33 PM, dbuchwald at dagmar.buchwald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> 
>>  
>> 
>>> "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.
>>> 
>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we
>>> need them.
>>> 
>>> Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I
>>> can hear her breathing."
>>> 
>>> 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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