SomethingMusic
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SomethingMusic
2yr ago
I think any type of diet like this ends up being effective just like any other diet - calorie restriction. Processed foods are frequently high calorie. Replacing them with other similar foods will frequently be less calorie dense, therefore healthier.
Another factor is costs. Speciality foods cost more, so people will buy less to follow a particular diet, causing them to eat less and lose weight. Gluten fanatics eat less carbs which tend to be calorie dense. Etc.
Basically if any diet replaces high calorie low nutrition foods with low calorie high nutrition foods its probably going to be effective. If someone wants to do that with eating no processed foods and it works I think they should be empowered to follow the diet, even if they misunderstand how the diet is benifitting them.
I've stalled on reading Sergei Prokofiev: A Biography by Harlow Robinson which is, well, as named. What's fascinating is the time period that Prokofiev 's life occupied (along with many of the other famous Russian composers like Stravinsky) which tertiarily documented the end of the Royal line and the rise of the Bolsheviks into Lenin's rise. and how it impacted the arts and the decisions composers made in regard to their musical and personal choices- to either reintegrate with the new Russian society or expatriate to new countries. It's helped me realize something about historical communist revolutions which I would like to write about here, but my schedule has made it too difficult to devote any significant time to research.
The book itself is interesting and well-written, but I find time to be my current short end and right now I prefer to spend what limited free time I have gaming over reading. Sad, but true.
There are a few reasons why protest music fails to capture an audience that it used to in the 60s through the 80s. While corporatism/consumerism wants music that captures the widest audience to be marketed the most aggressively, the biggest part of it is that there is simply so much music being produced at any given time. The volume of music being produced at any given moment is staggering, so the largest and most promoted voices are focused on capturing the biggest share of music possible. Any protest songs will find a comparably niche audience. As @greyenlightenment also eluded, popular cultural leaders can simply post on social media rather than making specific music about current events. This allows consumers who like their music to not be ostracized by political statements in music while at the same time claim to support the latest cultural zeitgeist.
One of the other problems is that we have lost our understanding of harmonic and musical language. Take Shostakovich's 9th symphony for instance(https://youtube.com/watch?v=16MIEhqoHNI). If you listen to the piece, you may have some understanding of the harmonic and melodic choices that he chose when writing the piece. However, unless you know this piece was written as a celebration of Russia's success on the Eastern front and purposefully subverted the Soviets expectations of bombastic and nationalistic success, you might be hard pressed to understand the cultural impact and relevance of the piece. Most of us have forgotten that the music itself used to be a form of revolution, not just the lyrics. Most people do not understand it because they have become ignorant to how music can subvert and commentate on cultural relevance and still be timeless.
Speak of national commissions, the lack of national involvement in the arts, and the lack of promotion of this in western media beyond the Proms in England and maybe the Presidential Inauguration, there is a distinct lack of public artistic works being commissioned and promoted into mainstream culture. The NEA in the US is essentially a blind pool of money partially sent for National Orchestras and for other personal pet projects of the political elite which rarely if ever reach cultural relevancy. Likewise, the lack of national and public broadcasting beyond NPR makes new works incredibly difficult to spread, and NPR's audience is not that large beyond it being considered a propaganda arm. Likewise, NPR and PBS have separated their musical efforts from NPR proper (or have at some point) further removing music broadcasting from cultural relevance.
This leaves individual songs and artists with much less impact on cultural discussion than any previous generation and makes musical genre as the way to define political alignment rather than individual artists or songs. Too much music is a stronger entropic force than too little music.
SomethingMusic
2yr ago
I don't remember but has the sub talked about the TV show Devs? It was made in 2020 and was a small-budget sci-fi show using about AI as a predictive algorithm. There were some elements of disbelief, but I think it raises some neat questions regarding the application of advanced AI and it's ramifications. It's just a single season as well but it's rather well made though definitely small budget.
I'm probably late to the party, but I found it enjoyable, so I thought it's worth checking out.
Thou Shalt Always Kill - Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip
My Favorite Things - Sound of Music
SomethingMusic
2yr ago
My request is a ban on direct links from Substack. It was getting kind of bad in the former subreddit but I've seen a lot of people posting their substacks to this website and I don't want this to be a repository of wanna be SCC-types trying to promote their hobby. It removes integration from the community and creates a division of members from integrating and interacting with the community instead of posting pre-baked blogs for views or hits.
SomethingMusic
2yr ago
I found myself trending to individually check subreddits anyways, so I found that except for a bookmark which I already had on my toolbar my habits haven't changed much. As I've seen the more interesting subs constantly get maligned or removed for one reason or another despite their intellectual and milque-toast (seeing /r/itsafetish get banned was a travesty) posting rules I think it's ultimately for the better that Motte is proactive on migrating to a new forum instead of being eventually quarantined or banned with no preparation whatsoever.
SomethingMusic
2yr ago
I may be missing something, but I can't tell if people replied to my comment and cannot follow a chain of discussion from that, Am I missing something?
SomethingMusic
2yr ago
Test post pls ignore
I am convinced NET Neutrality was a push by FAANG companies because they were attempting to monopolize the internet through preventing any company besides themselves to sensor content, the ISPs were the top concern because they controlled the end user experience. Ajit Pai should be recognized by congress as being smart enough to see through corporate greed and went along with his notion to repeal Net Neutrality, especially since the FCC was hardly the correct agency to control the internet anyways.
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