Re: [microsound] Re: no OS

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From: <Auralbeeste@xxxxxxx>
To: <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 4:28 PM
Subject: [microsound] Re: no OS

> Hello Kevin: I am glad that my attitude is offensive. I don't wish to be a
> role model for youth in some caricature role that the tabloid media expect
of
> footballers or athletes. If the  procreative/birth/death cycle is
satisfying to
> others, fine but you don't need consciousness just to do that.. That is
where
> the joke comes in. The paradoxes of all societies are at the same time
> interesting and depressing. Eg: without military/industrial science I
would not be
> able to type this letter. Another myth: modern technology makes life
easier
> /improves quality of life, by creating all these wonderful things we have
(and to
> an extent most of us couldn't manage without them); [leaving aside the
issue
> of the 3rd World] [Keep it simple, Chris] Yet everyone is working more
hours,
> spending more time travelling to work, becoming more dependent on having a
car,
> a phone, a computer, having to buy more new clothes, etc. Some people even
> have second/third/fourth jobs.  In the end you have to fit the company
image(ie:
> be less yourself, even in Social Services), have less time for your family
:-
> actually spending time with your kids (and I don't mean taking them to
> Disneyland), you only have time to eat shit food (Macdonalds or microwave)
you don't
> get much time to procreate, or better still have sex; you rarely have time
to
> spend in idle banter and at the end of the day you end up too fucked to do
> any thing but sit down and watch mindless soap operas and superficial
bipolar
> documentaries on TV. I could rant on. So what do you need consciousness to
> follow the status quo. I'm not going to change the world, the masses ain't
going to
> listen to me, nor do I think I'm any sort of messiah. However, maybe we
> should question the way things are, try to step aside from too much
participation
> be disillusioned with same old answers and alternatives. All the usual
wide
> eyed proposals to change the world always end up with a bunch trying to
impose
> their wills on the rest of us. My own little paradoxes include: finally
being
> able to make noisescapes by using computers (I happily admit to being
unable to
> play any acoustic instrument, proficiently), I find working a fixed 9 -5
> allows me time to be creative, go to gigs, and fuck my partner, and I like
drinking
> wine. I could give up the job if someone will give me the dosh, but I
> wouldn't want to give up the other 3. Now there's positivity for you!!!
>

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