On Sat, 2013-08-17 at 11:28 -0700, Len Ovens wrote: > The thing is, we do not live in a democracy. We seem to have a practical > anarchy. That is whoever has the biggest stick leads. (whatever that stick > might be) A lot of that stick seems to belong to those who release music > and other art, who have seen these things as a way of training the main > population to act a certain way that will meet their ends. Where are the > singer/songwriters? They are still around, but not on the > radio/itunes/record store/whatever. One has to search for self-released > stuff on private web sites for the most part. I would suggest that > political art that is counter power is actively suppressed. Even through > small acts like forcing utube to remove content for copyright purposes > without any need of proof. Protests are squashed much more > quickly/violently now too, and protestors labelled as terrorists. The > average radio artist is chosen for their malleability and told very firmly > what songs they will sing and how those songs will be represented in a > video. They have the name "star", but they are just an employee. > Full ACK, but btw. in the 60s there already was a great rock'n'roll swindle. Snobs like Malcolm McLaren already started before the 70s with their capitalistic fraud. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
