how to blow up music

aside from the present day, ah, once I was a naive and idealistic young man

Here's a little Revolutionary's Guide to the world we live in.

The Parable of the Medium

Once upon a time everybody made their own music. They made it for religeon, to ease the old as time burden of working, to entertain themselves and children, as a way of connecting community.

Cut to the boiling capitalist anarchist state that the de facto owners call USA and the rest of us, for good or ill, generally call America, somewhere one side of the second Julian/Gregorian Millennium...

A handful of synthetic entities called Corporations now control very nearly all new music. These entities are controlled by a group of people called Shareholders. The fundamental principle of the Shareholder religeon is the accumulation of =capital= under an arbitrary state/corporation controlled valuation swindle known as The Market. Curiously, the majority of music exchanged under the system is crap. Some observers maintain that this is an inevitable result of the highly arcane mechanisms of The Market. Being a romantic, I tend towards the belief that it's simply a method of adding insult to injury.

And you thought Nineteen Eighty Four was just a book.

These powerful and nearly undisputed forces have, in the prior two decades, made two incredibly important tactical errors and are on the verge of making a third.

Deep in the grips of the blinding, short-sighted greed that they generally call Smart Business, the Shareholders caused the Corporations to decree that almost all music be exchanged by virtue of a new medium. Music was translated into digital information (the popular misnomer for binary information) and encoded onto a visual matrix. The unintended side effect of this process was to provide millions of potential Revolutionaries with music in a form that allowed exact replication of encoded information for a tiny fraction of the cost of its original production.

Meanwhile, a new medium called Internet was rising in America. It involved the exchange of binary information via telephone. Although the telephone is an old medium and effectively under the control of the Shareholders, it's nature dictates that unlike other media designed to transfer information over distance, it is impossible for the Shareholders to dictate with as much success exactly what information travels over the telephone. This method of transmission is so cheap that the many give information away free or in trade, true revolutionary anrachist economics.

The Shareholders are about to make their third error. In an truly awesome excess of greed, they set their sights on the digitalization of Television, America's most popular (by a gross margin) distance information medium. Politicians (the individuals hired by corporations as a buffer zone between the Shareholders' desire to accumulate points and the citizens' desire to retain the value of their labor) have been paid handsome bonuses to give ownership and control of the narrow band of electromagnetic frequencies suitable for digital information exchange over to the Corporations. It is reasonable to project that a connection between Internet and the new, "digital" Television will become a standard consumer technology within fifteen years of the Millennium, ending the Internet access problem

I honestly think they've completely missed the true implications of these interconnected blunders. Revolutionaries take note that you do not do the same.
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