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The human race is becoming a disgrace.
Countries are fighting with chemical warfare.
Not giving a damn about the people who live there.
Nostradamus predicts the coming of the Antichrist.
Hey, look out, the third world nations are on the rise.
The Democratic-Communist Relationship,
won't stand in the way of the Islamic force.
The CIA is looking for [other tactics?].
The KGB is smarter than you think.
Brainwash mentalities to control the system.
Using TV and movies - religions of course.
Yes, the world is headed for destruction.
—lyrics linked in a recent Phatic Communion post which includes a video:
”Shout Out to John Robb, William Lind, Colonel Hammes,
and President Ahmadinejad: from
Ronald Reagan, Johnny Rotten, and Afrikaa Bambaataa”
Hmmm. Had it posted there, then thought it had enough of a 5GW spin to put it here.
Posted by Curtis Gale Weeks on Sep 30, 2007 12:24 AM
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I think It is time to load some Sex Pistol and P.I.L. back onto my iPod again.
When I post things like this, I wonder: Am I out-of-bounds? (For the conventional xGW and mil-theory crowd/topic.)
I’m vaguely and circumlocutorily approaching a vague fingertip-feeling sort of thing concerning the way that the future emerges in artistic enterprises first or perhaps well before the thinking begins to be synthesized by theorist such as ourselves. Artists may be the most accomplished, or at least the most experienced, horizontal thinkers on the planet — with the possible exception of comedians (who incidentally might think they are, and may be, artists.)
So artists might be canaries-in-the-mine; but the nature of their enterprises may also sometimes lead down dead-ends, mixing some of the prescience with too-broad or too-vague fingertip feelings; so that the output is not quite as useful as a systematized study (of their art and other things) made by theorists such as ourselves!
Interesting video. I suspect many artists might think a tad too horizontally. Or, at least, embrace idealism in such a fervent fashion that it blinds them to possible realities. In some respects I suppose the artist is the cognitive opposite of the theorist as the former places heavy concentration on decision and action while the latter seems to focus on observation and orientation.
—This is interesting, something worth exploring fully. (Of course, we’re talking archetypes. I’d bet there is a lot of crossover and special individual cases.)