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Talk with Dino Prometheus of Dependent Press on finding and amplifying marginal voices, 18 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me When I Was 18, creativity outside of social status, post-humus success, the scapegoat mechanism, the danger of being an innovator, Martin Luther King’s FBI-protection, the art and music industry as cartel, the implicit order of capitalism, filtering of voices, talking to Temple Grandin, people of the mainstream, autism, vaccinations, and SSRI, a perceptual spectrum, focused and unfocused awareness, being a baby, from Buddha to psychopath, the un-landed psyche, stigmatization of mental illness, early diagnosing of autism, being a child anomaly, the fear of being triggered, identifying our delusions, enforcing tolerance, identity politics, using pseudonyms, ritual magic, Crowley, the will to power, pursuit of happiness, and the American nightmare, an avatar of Lucifer, existentialism, what’s the sum of my actions, awareness as the context for everything, the egregore of humanity, raising a child, marriage as discovery, the culture of blame, commitment and surrender, following the fragment to the whole.
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Songs: “El Mariachi” and “Monkey Said,” by The Freak Fandango Orchestra; “Cold Cook,” by Weighty Tree & Wizard Shoes.
A book that was popular in intellectual circles of the last century was Thomas Kuhn’s _The Structure of Scientific Revolutions_ which introduced or popularized the idea of shifting paradigms of world views. I confess I’ve never read the book but really feel that I should.
Another quip re: scientific revolutions is that the radical idea (relativity, quantum mechanics, etc.) becomes absorbed by the culture after the conservative scientists who resist the ideas have died off. Einstein lived long enough to see his three really great theories, Special and General Relativity, and the Photoelectric Effect (for which he received the Nobel Prize), which explained the particle nature of light, enthusiastically embraced by the community of scientists and then the wider culture.
That was an interesting discussion; especially the parts about becoming popular and marginality. Indeed, the entertainment industry is like a big cartel and nowadays you need to become “affiliated” and aligned with a demographic to collect coins.
Its all very mechanical. Patrice Oneil is an example of a great comedian the “cartel” didn’t really know what to do with.
Because the cartel is basically a machine for homogenization; it needs a steady supply of fresh talent, which it attempts to mine from the margins; with many artists attempting to cut out the cartel and do this work themselves.
This is how you end up with faux gangsta rappers who grew up in the Fox Hills Country Club and went to private school…
This is how you end up with Talkings Heads being so popular when people have never heard of Fela.
The beast is insatiable.
Fela Kuti:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnjIB6CxAlM
When it comes to Fela Kuti, I suggest people start with “Original Sufferhead”.
It may be a compilation; I will find my cassette to get all the names of the songs on it.
I make this suggestion because the album has a theme and the songs resonate and reinforce each other.
In addition, these are some of the songs that got him beaten and jailed by the Nigerian military (backed up by Britain)
Some of the songs on it:
1. Sorrow Tears and Blood
2. Colonial Mentality
3. ITT
and I think there is one other?
1. Sorrow Tears and Blood
2. Colonial Mentality
3. ITT
and I think there is one other?
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Oh yeah, its the title track “Original Sufferhead”; its a cassette with only 4 songs; two per side.
Hi Jasun ,
Happy new year mate , great wisdom once again , enjoyed this one , keep going mate
Cheers
Kuta
Kuta/Kuti sync?