[microsound] Someones finally said it

[Bill Jarboe]

On May 14, 2009, at 2:21 AM, Manannan Mac Lir wrote:

> At the end of a day long symposium on "energy and sustainability"  
> yesterday a round table discussion was held with all 6 speakers, 1  
> architect, 2 engineers, 2 scientists and a writer. The final  
> question to the panel was what their hopes were for humanity given  
> all the current blah, the first guy said as long as we kept  
> "crunching the numbers" we could successfully avoid total collapse,  
> I can't help think that writers like philip k. dick were trying to  
> prepare us for something, the second guy started off normal but  
> turned sharply, he's been writing books and designing ecologically  
> sensitive buildings for 40 years and he said he's lost more hope  
> the older he's gotten, "I've lived through 3 energy crises and two  
> economic meltdowns and nothing has changed"

    for him , maybe nothing has changed. Maybe it is a result of the  
way he designs buildings and the approach to conducting business.
> were close to his exact words, at this point he started to get  
> visibly emotional and talked about the fact that now people are  
> just making it worse by "eco-bling" as he calls it.

   For a musician , it's usually 'bling-echo" (the idea being to  
procure an object expensive , flashy and send it through an echo  
chamber- (do I really have to explain this , well it does demystify  
the bemused smile from large segments of the population which greets  
one while saying 'eco'?)

> Why the fuck aren't we getting the point? To see the pain sadness  
> and fear in a man in his late 60's (i think) was the first time  
> I've seen anyone publicly express the genuine vortex we are in as a  
> whole (at least in ireland and britain although  i think  
> everything, similarly to the berlin wall, will , melt into air like  
> our financial markets have without the banging we're used to the  
> media ensuring us of), there's a thing george benjamin (possibly)  
> said, it would come to the point where humanity would become so  
> detached that it would witness it's own destruction without even  
> wanting or being capable of reacting, like through a pane of glass.  
> The air outside my door is dirty because of the pollutants machines  
> spew into the atmosphere, an exhaust pipe is given pride of place  
> over my lungs, legally too, what happens if i smash a cars lungs up?

    If you smash a persons lungs up you might later be accosted by  
his tribe , organization or something coming thundering over the  
tundra , tarmac and ( well you know; read your tolkien , song of  
roland , or any of those musty old history books...)
> im not a great believer in primitivism but government has not  
> governed. where do we go?


   Government isn't civilization (civilisation). I think that if you  
are really concerned with a particular issue , it is good to research  
what the government is accomplishing , determine what they probably  
do not know , what should be changed and the historic consequences of  
the enaction of similar ideas. If you still disagree with your  
lawmakers after all that ; contact them and offer suggestions.

> little bit's, paper bags instead of plastic, cleaner washing up  
> liquid... this is what we're being given, culturally i think  
> there's been a huge response, in subtle but fundamental ways  
> obviously not in mainstream. our society is in a state of  
> collective denial before it's mass monetary hallucinations finally  
> begin to contaminate its blood, perverting the inside before total  
> disintegration, we don't have guns over here but you can be damn  
> sure someone's gonna get them. trying to get a sense of joy about  
> the future is impossible, the only thing i can do is try and  
> accelerate the immanent disintegration, politically, socially  
> whatever.. sorry for a pessimistic rant but its only through talkin  
> about it that people understand, haved to say itd be nice to SEE  
> some microdudes some time, optimism is the smile il get on my face  
> when the corporate capitalist detritus has been purged from the  
> immune system of the planet, probably taking a larger chunk of us  
> with it anyway, free market cannibalism, who knows, could be the  
> next economic model for all of us...still smiling tho, maybe we can  
> eat our friends


    I don't know , it seems there were some frightfully handsome  
looking young men in a Bentley advertisement doing something test- 
wise which was supposed to drastically reduce car exhaust without  
sacrificing performance. There are also great recent strides in  
environmentalism and diplomacy (a plan to reduce soot from cooking  
fires in india and china for example). It seems that the flashy and  
grandiose or the small and humble seem to generate the best  
advertising, the roof of plants seemingly somewhere in between.


                                                                  Bill
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> Mananann Mac Lir
> macdara o maolbhuaidh
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