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I know this isn't music per se and should perhaps be on my Planet Paul Central blog rather than this one, but I'm gonna put it here anyway because i can't come out with writing on one general topic all day everyday and still be Paul Giovanni....
So, the thing is, I'm noticing a certain progression of the internet and myspace that looks awfully familiar..
Basically, the internet started as the wild, wild west: It was vast and uncotrollable and with time it's become more sectioned off and controlled. Fences are appearing everywhere.
Myspace is essentially an internet within the internet. It provides the function of navigation and community. Without it, you're in the wilderness by yourself or in a very small group where you're cut off from the world despite the fact that 'technically speaking' anyone can find you..
I mean after a few days when any comment threads appear to have died down, I put the blogs from here onto blogger.com and I've had 200 hits of the same material there as opposed to 4500 here..It's like they retire to the country to enjoy the good life...
And this is the issue. The internet started as a wilderness, it was discovered by explorers and developed and bit by bit cities have appeared and myspace is one such city and the longer it goes on, the more it becomes private and gated....
Yes boss, Myspace IS the infrastructure of a large city in internet land...And as it gets older, the city is getting more controlled.
When i'm out whoring it about loooking for readers i notice that the people who've been on here a long time are far more likely to have questions before they accept you as a friend. Either that or they have last name /email blocks, or private profiles....
Apparently as a result of the massive new devlopment of Myspace City Arizona, there are many people who've already said, and many more who will say 'Myspace has sold out' 'Myspace is shit now' Rupert Murdoch, Capitalism, Evil, blah blah blah...
But if you're gonna come out with that sort of crap you might as well protest against evolution. Evolution and capitalism are exactly the same thing and myspace is and always has been a force for both...
I used to be anti capitalist.
I went on riots and countless protests to that aim back in the mid to late 90s,.But now i feel being anti capitalist is like being anti-rain or anti-evolution.
It makes no logical sense, because as someone like Banksy has found out, your anticapitalism is soon assimilated into capitalism and there's no escape no matter how conceited and elitist you become.
Yes boss, even if you skulk off to a patch of wilderness somewhere with your organic bread, you can never avoid capitalism. And even if you find yourself a nice spot in the sun, it won't be too long before it rains..
I've followed the whole anti capitalism thing these last 20 years and my conclusion is that the people who are most against it are the biggest capitalists in terms of their own personalities. I've seen few shops more obsessed with the kind of snotty elitism they supposedly abhor than health food shops, ethical or fair trade shops and then there's The Body Shop......
Anti Capitalism is a cool ticket, like being against famine is a cool ticket. It's fucking obvious! Short of the psychos, everyone is against the worse excesses of capitalism in principle. Everyone hates the idea of people going without food, but as our old mate Jesus James Christ once said 'the poor will always be with you'
The bottom line is that anti-capitalism is a state of denial of the self and reality and nothing more...
Anyway enough of the clever political analysis, let's get back to the music....
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I Got Next
By KRS-One
Release date: By 20 May, 1997 | 10:03 - 7 Comments - 6 Kudos - Add Comment - Edit - Remove |
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