Creative Deconstruction

   Whenever I read that some team of scientists have found a possible cure for a disease, but can’t pull it off due to how much money it will cost. I try to imagine a physical or even a moral barrier in their way, but I can’t. I can however imagine a figurative obstacle, but it’s invisible, and in truth doesn’t exist. So, the dominan t world culture is held back by an invisible being, by a lacking of something invented by humans themselves. Does that remind you of anything? I play music at a proton center from time to time, and it seems that this cancer treatment is reserved for patients with a lot of money, or those with a certain type of insurance due to how expensive the treatment is. And, the part that gets me every time this idea occurs, is then I notice how it even gets under the radar of scientists, who are supposed to be empiricists. And, it gets by business magnates. Because, they take the monetary cost of something as a fact of life, as a law of ...

There is no white race. Somebody just made it up. It’s a huge umbrella of cultures from Europe and other parts of the world. But, I often wonder, does a person who throws themselves under the umbrella of “white” in some way take credit for the accomplishments of someone like Bill Gates, Elon Musk, or Steve Jobs? Do they say to themselves. “Yes, that’s one of us/I’m one of them”. Meanwhile, they look at someone from a minority group and say “Oh, look at them. They’re not one of us. If only they had an Elon Musk.” You can pick and choose who’s “white”. You can decide to exclude Hitler, but include Carl Sagan into the identity narrative. Exclude Stalin, but include Einstein. However, when you’re “Black” in America you don’t have the option of opting out, or being opted out. You wake up that way, and only that way. Racism in America is ultimately about how people look. And, there are college educated people who will say about discrimination “But, it’s always bee...

P aying attention to politics means having to fill my mind with the image and sound of many awful people. A corrupt politician holds my mind hostage in a sense, because if I'm going to try to understand or even help the situation I have to know a good deal about them and what's going on. These are people I'd rather avoid. Cross the street if I saw them coming. But, they've carved out places for themselves between my resources and I, between my future and I, essentially forcing me to know their name and face, as if I “loved” them or held their mental image in my mind by choice. Fortunately I've learned how to skim articles for key information, and how to play video exposes at a faster speed than normal. For the most part, politics in this country is too-often a car accident that I can't look away from, on a highway that I can't realistically exit. At the risk of some online displaying their values by pointing out that what I'm abo...

         A t music stores nowadays, and maybe it's the same in other areas of shopping, it's fend for yourself.  The store acts like it's completely absolved from selling you a shitty product “Yeah, 'Zeus' pre-amps are crap nowadays”, and you're supposed to just stand there and nod your head in agreement with the employee. You sold me this shit buddy! Why are you knowingly selling crappy products? W hat good are the people working there if ultimately the decision 's on you?     As a musician, I'm not necessarily an audio technician that knows all the nuances of the latest builds . This is a critical impasse . - So, you decide to go with the $999.00  thing that says “Pro” in its title, b ecause it's been the industry standard in studios for decades, so  you forgo the 25% “we'll act like we sold this thing to you for longer than a month” fee— out of some archaic back-in-my-day principle of honor , then realize that it's bugg...

"Ternura (Tenderness)" by artist Oswaldo Guayasamin     I magine that your heart has left your body, is one-quarter the size of you, and crawling, walking, or running around in a world where the internet and TV constantly remind you that there are mass shootings, kidnappings, and child molesters. Furthermore, your child is facing a world where you as an adult know things are precarious concerning your countries financial future, and an expanding and increasing economic imbalance disproportionately polarizing the upper and lower classes, and maybe they're also facing a school system that doesn't really educate, but molds good little workers, and an education system that leaves out at least half of the truth and history regarding your country. "That's every country." you might say. Maybe so, but why would you or anyone want their child to go into that? Why would you want to perpetuate that?     As I haphazardly run into information about auto acc...

Use your favorites/bookmakrs folder. It's just like clicking anything else, save your friends sites and your favorite websites to see what's going on. Curate your own media don't let an algorithm steer you towards what it wants you to see, read, or think about. 1. Bookmarks/favorites 2. Make a "chatroom/messneger" like this reddits chat Snoonet and give the address to all your friends, you can log into it and see who's on anytime, and even make it password specific for privacy if you like. 3. Make a tumblr for you and your family and make it private, or any other place that lets you make a private group. You don't always have to use the giants, the "Walmarts" of the internet to communicate with loved ones. 4. Use Duck Duck Go as a search engine, or some other search engine that you like. I like Duck Duck go because it doesn't track you nor build an algorithm on you, and it has a badass "bang!" feature t...

W hat if we became a machine loving industrialized society because slavery ended? Slave masters got accustomed to doing no work and gaining massive returns due to slavery and exploitation. When it became illegal to have slaves, they looked to machines to output the same amounts of their product, and that's how we became the crazy production technology loving people we are today. They also turned to children to do the work…