Re: [microsound] [Fwd: [AfroFuturism] Arundhati Roy: ConfrontingEmpire] [OT]

[Ant Weiss <antonv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hmm, do I see someone trying to insult another someone on this list again?
Calling someone "empty-headed" is sure not talking about music.

Ant

----- Original Message -----
From: <dtaylor@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "microsound" <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 7:36 PM
Subject: Re: [microsound] [Fwd: [AfroFuturism] Arundhati Roy:
ConfrontingEmpire] [OT]

> 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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