Rare #politics post from me.
Huxley, 70 years ago, nailed the downward spiral of the current GOP party and it's supporters into the subhuman herd mentality that drives it. It's a groupthink amalgam of people addicted to being part of 'something bigger' than themselves. The ship has no captain, just opportunists who grab the wheel at times. The person umwelt has merged into a mob driven hive umwelt and they can't see outside it. There is no panacea, ::sigh:: it is but our nature.
The opposite of maga is death of ego. And if anyone knows about ego death, it's Aldous Huxley 🩷
@Kurtroedeger Remember the Moonies? Now we have the Trumpies. Deprogrammers are the only hope. 😂
Great insight... particularly that "new and previously undreamed-of devices for exciting mobs have been invented."
ANTI S O C I A L M E D I A
@QueenOfEverything @Kurtroedeger Wholeheartedly agreed :)
Although even an inattentive observer could have figured out I'd agree with that - after all, I did name one of my songs Antisocial Media, and do a suitable artwork for it :P
If you're curious:
Wow... that's the perfect music score for a trump maga rally.
Current events always influence how we hear music- okay, it influences me a lot!
Really cool composition and graphic!
@QueenOfEverything @Kurtroedeger I dunno, I think the perfect score for a MAGA rally would be this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNv2RHR62Rs
LOL
In all seriousness, thanks :)
Ha! I meant that your song would be the perfect score to one of the movies they will make about the hideous times of trump... it's meant for real people having to suffer from ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA not the clowns that are creating all of it.
* i know you know that. it was a good circus theme- i bookmarked it too! 😎
@Kurtroedeger very very very interesting. Aldous Huxley was such a real visionary that sometimes his predictions seem to be superhuman...
@Kurtroedeger I think there's more to it: the many forces making life harder/worse for the lower/middle classes - wage suppression, greedflation, rent jacking, destruction of workers' rights, gutting of progressive taxation & defacto replacement by regressive taxation, mono/oligopolies taking over, etc - have made people desperate.
Desperation drives people to extreme positions.
MAGA has capitalized on that, tricking them into believing pouring gasoline on the fire will make things better.
@Kurtroedeger
Did he just come out against literacy? I think he did.