Re: Decline of the instrumental intro in pop music
Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2017 8:18 pm
Not so sure....
Control societies are nothing new, there are plenty of examples of such states from the past and the present. East Germany, North Korea spring to mind but they are hardly the only ones. The EU is becoming increasingly dictatorial as is the US, Canada etc. One also shouldn't be fooled by the leftwing vs rightwing political paradigms. They're just constructs to confuse voters. The "leaders" on both sides have the same agendas, namely control & power. Supporting one side or the other is futile. Both are out to screw you.
Corporations are organised entities which exist to maximise profit and capture and take control of more and more markets. They achieve this by working in conjunction with Governments (in which case one more or less has a Fascist State) and in more extreme cases, Armies of Conquest.
In Western Countries these Corporations don't just become powerful and successful through their own efforts alone, or by random chance or by evolution. They become powerful and successful by infiltrating and eventually controlling and dominating most of the spectrum, from the media to the sociosphere to the economy to the Government, which is staffed by politicians and bureaucrats often on the payroll of these same corporations.
The system is rigged to suit them, and why wouldn't it be, it makes perfect sense. They have the financial means and the influence to buy politicians, to shape public opinion, to buy the loyalty of State bureaucrats, to own the media and to push their agendas. A large part of their agenda is to make as much easy money as possible. Nestle is a great example of this. They bribe corrupt administrations and councils around the world to gain access to local water supplies, pump out billions of liters of water for which they pay almost nothing and then sell that bottled water for enormous profits. Local people get ripped off. Nestle make a fortune at their expense.
The music industry isn't much different. It's much cheaper and more profitable to hire a few talentless clowns to make beats on a sequencer, throw in a couple of miming dancing girls and to push the ridiculous cacophony on the public via their own Industry Media Channels, TV, Magazines, the Internet etc than it is to invest in developing good music and artists. Remember, who controls, develops and finances the most popular and successful Internet Portals? Large Corporations of course!
That's one big reason why almost everything is becoming increasingly dumbed down. And the more dumbed down the public are, the better it suits the Corporations and Governments because brand-slaves and obedient consumer zombies are exactly what suits Corporations and Governments. They would have to be exceptionally foolish and naive to not realise this and not cash in (literally and figuratively) . Unlike the naive general public, Tycoons and Politicians realised these things long ago and therefore they take measures to encourage the dumbing down of society. Why? Because it is profitable to them and because it entrenches their power and their family dynasties' hold on power and it enables them to transfer more and more wealth from the rest of society into their own pockets.
No matter how "free" people think they are or how "free" they think the Internet supposedly is, much of this freedom is an illusion and the Corporations can and do drown out most smaller players with "noise".
Control societies are nothing new, there are plenty of examples of such states from the past and the present. East Germany, North Korea spring to mind but they are hardly the only ones. The EU is becoming increasingly dictatorial as is the US, Canada etc. One also shouldn't be fooled by the leftwing vs rightwing political paradigms. They're just constructs to confuse voters. The "leaders" on both sides have the same agendas, namely control & power. Supporting one side or the other is futile. Both are out to screw you.
Corporations are organised entities which exist to maximise profit and capture and take control of more and more markets. They achieve this by working in conjunction with Governments (in which case one more or less has a Fascist State) and in more extreme cases, Armies of Conquest.
In Western Countries these Corporations don't just become powerful and successful through their own efforts alone, or by random chance or by evolution. They become powerful and successful by infiltrating and eventually controlling and dominating most of the spectrum, from the media to the sociosphere to the economy to the Government, which is staffed by politicians and bureaucrats often on the payroll of these same corporations.
The system is rigged to suit them, and why wouldn't it be, it makes perfect sense. They have the financial means and the influence to buy politicians, to shape public opinion, to buy the loyalty of State bureaucrats, to own the media and to push their agendas. A large part of their agenda is to make as much easy money as possible. Nestle is a great example of this. They bribe corrupt administrations and councils around the world to gain access to local water supplies, pump out billions of liters of water for which they pay almost nothing and then sell that bottled water for enormous profits. Local people get ripped off. Nestle make a fortune at their expense.
The music industry isn't much different. It's much cheaper and more profitable to hire a few talentless clowns to make beats on a sequencer, throw in a couple of miming dancing girls and to push the ridiculous cacophony on the public via their own Industry Media Channels, TV, Magazines, the Internet etc than it is to invest in developing good music and artists. Remember, who controls, develops and finances the most popular and successful Internet Portals? Large Corporations of course!
That's one big reason why almost everything is becoming increasingly dumbed down. And the more dumbed down the public are, the better it suits the Corporations and Governments because brand-slaves and obedient consumer zombies are exactly what suits Corporations and Governments. They would have to be exceptionally foolish and naive to not realise this and not cash in (literally and figuratively) . Unlike the naive general public, Tycoons and Politicians realised these things long ago and therefore they take measures to encourage the dumbing down of society. Why? Because it is profitable to them and because it entrenches their power and their family dynasties' hold on power and it enables them to transfer more and more wealth from the rest of society into their own pockets.
No matter how "free" people think they are or how "free" they think the Internet supposedly is, much of this freedom is an illusion and the Corporations can and do drown out most smaller players with "noise".