education for the ignorant masses please

The courses I'm taking are really good and the stimulation has been awesome so far. I walk around contemplating issues such as propaganda and censurship as a consequence of corporate consolidation within the music industry. Trying to really understand the underlying factors to the end of mass marketing and the importance and effects of niche marketing.

Another interesting issue is all the new alternatives for artists and the importance of new creative services that are available today. There are no end to the possibilities in todays informational highway.I wrote an article regarding the fact that Bob Dylan is talking to two car manufacturers about beeing the voice on their GPS satnav systems. Old gatekeepers are dead or in a coma basically, but one must always investigate and learn more about new and coming key stakeholders in the industry.

David Bowie said in an interview in the New York Times on June 2002, that the changes concerning attitudes towrds interlectual property will change the industry forever. In other words - Copyright is dead or dying... But people still have to make money... FACT! (as Bill Hicks would have put it while confirming a fact...). How is the question. Commerce vs. Art. Art vs. Commerce.

I have been looking into a few current issues that I found interesting and annoying. I don't want to go to deep in the issues, but I will let you know what I have been seeing and reading in the New York Times and in USA Today the last couple of days. This is part of the breakfast routine, so I reserve myself for any missed info due to morning tiredness...I'll try to keep it short and on point.

The first thing is :The U.S war in Afghanistan has been going on for eight years now and the last two months (July and August) have been the most deadly for U.S troops. I don't even want to discuss the fact that there is a war in Afghanistan and the reasons behind it, but what I find interesting are the conflicting agendas between the U.S and NATO commander in Afghanistan, Army General Stanley McChrystal, and the Obama administration in the White House. Army Gen. McChrystal says; "we must change the way we think, act and operate to achieve success". Last week he reported back to Washington that he will not seek additional troops.

Obamas plan of action might seem obvious to all us deadly, especially after this report and the fact that the public support at home regarding the war in general is shrinking in a fast pace... but according to White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, the president is open to the possibility to send more troops to Afghanistan. He continues; "There's broad agreement that for many years, our effort in Afghanistan has been under-resourced politically, military and economically".

The rabbit hole goes much deeper than this, with far more details regarding what Army Gen. McChrystal and the bigger plan set by the White House. I just feel that the agendas might not be cohesive and sometimes suspicious... who works for who and who's interests are prioritized?

I will end here. Tomorrow I will post the rest regarding another current issue, shows I'm going to attend and probably some other bullshit... Syked!

Song of the day:



Caked up and faked up, she's obsessed with the outside
Nothing earned, too afraid to fail, so she lead a hollow life void of insight
Loving what you see but hating what you think because between your mind and your body, t here's a missing fucking link that leaves you vulnerable, susceptible to pain
You're a garden of potential submerged in the rain

True beauty can't be seen with the eyes

Armed, armed with a mind
I'm going to strengthen my action with thought
Make use of the gift that I got and walk fearless because I'm armed with a mind
A weak offense when you step to this
Mind over matter is power over fists
I walk fearless because I'm armed with a mind

I walk fearless with a mind far greater than a fucking fist

Spineless and mindless, you felx your muscles and not your fucking head
A deep man with a strong point made without one thoughtful word said
Huff and puff, the fierce fists will do the talking, can't speak for yourself so your crew's with you walking
Tell me what's worth fighting for and it better be something greater than an evening of the score

Boy, you're true strength sleeps behind your eyes

It's the absent minded fool who's afraid to think, to extend an open hand, to dare to earn a thing
It's the gift inside your head not to take for granted because an unexaminded life is a seed unplanted
As the animals, they can't reason but as humans we can, so are you just a wild animal or a rational man?
Our bodies take you nowhere, might does not make right
There's a gift inside your head called your mind