Is MUSIC used as a propaganda/mind-control tool?

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Maybe I was being being over-critical of Zappa. I didn't really mean to pick on him in particular. Your praise of him reminds me that I did like what he was doing and he did spark some new awareness in me at some point. After all, that's why I went to see him perform in the first place. Maybe he just pissed me off with that insulting routine of his. :)

Artists are often complicated people, I've found. I have more than once been pissed off by artists I formerly admired when I came into contact with them. It's a bit of a shock but it has also served to “keep me grounded” as far as not becoming star struck over celebs. Some of them are real dickheads.
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I know what you mean. I am consistently grateful that while they say never to meet your heroes, I have not once regretted meeting Simon.
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Simon is lucky to have you as his friend, hoi.


If I may, I have an anecdote that illustrates another side of this coin. It is meant to relate to the thread's topic in an allegorical way. And, I will try to be brief.

For some years I worked in Hollywood as an “extra performer” (an actor without lines). There was a TV comedy writer that I once greatly admired and thought of as a genius. I was booked on a show of his that he both wrote and starred in. I worked in that capacity for a total of about 5 or 6 episodes. I think it was on the 2nd such job that we were shooting in a hospital room set. I was playing a person visiting a patient who was in a hospital bed. However the “patient” in bed kept falling asleep during takes (not uncommon with extras who get little sleep between jobs). The problem was that this guy snored very loudly and making noise is strictly a no-no during a take. I was trying to gently wake him up while cameras were rolling so the shot wouldn't be ruined. But this guy was a super sound sleeper. Shaking him didn't work and he just snored more loudly. At one point I softly whispered to him to wake up or shut up or something like that. Well, the star, who was in a dialog with another actor at that time, suddenly and angrily called for a cut and then marched directly over to me.

In a rage he demanded, “Were you talking during the take?!?!?!?!”

There was dead silence on the set while the whole company, cast & crew had their eyes on me.

Now, in the fraction of a second before I answered that question, a number of thoughts raced through my mind as I tried to figure out the best way to respond. Should I try to explain that I was only trying to quiet the moron in bed who was snoring? That seemed like it would be interpreted as my trying to shift blame to someone else. Lame! Should I just deny that I was talking? No, that could get messy and it wouldn't be true. What should I say?

Well, in the end my decision was: Fuck it, just say yes.

So, that's what I did. I looked him in the eye and just said, “Yes.” It was true after all, and the extenuating circumstances would probably just sound lame if I tried to explain further.

He then proceeded to rant at me in front of the whole company about what a low life cretin I was for ruining the take. It was quite a tirade. I never saw him do anything like that before or since. I never saw any star or director make such a fuss over something like that. But, the odd thing was I think he was surprised that I didn't cave in and didn't try to squirm out of this confrontation. I think that is what pissed him off the most -- that I wasn't afraid of him and just answered up with no attempt to dodge the bullet.

But, afterward, the experience left me shaken. Not that I cared about my employment on the show. I actually worked on a number of subsequent episodes and that incident only seemed to endear me to the crew who remembered me and greeted me warmly whenever they saw me back on set. Though Hollywood often treats extras with contempt, they still know that they are needed and that replacing them costs money and can hurt a show's screen continuity so they rarely fire them.

The experience shook me because I had admired this guy so much as a comedy genius for years and I suddenly discovered, face to face with this “hero,” that he was a supremely arrogant asshole who tried to intimidate a lowly extra for an error that would have been brushed off as nothing if any other cast or crew member had done it. (Re-takes are drops in a bucket with shows like this.)

Anyway, this bubble-bursting experience then got me to thinking along certain lines which eventually led to my realizing what Hollywood was really all about and, long-story-short, realizing the tremendous propaganda machine it really is. In other words, the bad experience turned out to be more valuable to me than I would have ever thought and I am glad it happened.

So, I guess my point is: it's not necessarily a bad idea to meet your heroes but be prepared for a shock if you ever do. :)
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Funny and meaningful story, lux. Thanks for sharing.
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Exactly Lux, you can only judge the greatness of a man by his interaction with "inferiors" (e.g. disabled, poor, distraught)

I was extremely humbled once to hear a ex-Head of Surgery from a major teaching hospital take time to validate my social upheaval with his own tale of marital woe!
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hoi.polloi wrote:
Cobra Commander wrote:As for Jim writing a book, the Doors movie shows him recording an audio book, so maybe it's something worth digging for to see if he gave any other info on what he may have known.
That is interesting. Hmm.
Check this out Hoi.

I don't know if it is what the movie was depicting Jim Morrison recording. It's really weird and it seems like Jim Morrison just rambling on about different topics, so not really an audio book, but one of his rant tracks is "Adolf Hitler is still alive". I just found it, so I haven't given it too much of a listen yet. You can listen to all the tracks at this link to Jim Morrison "The Lost Paris Tapes"...

https://archive.org/details/JimMorrison ... ParisTapes

I'll keep digging to see if I can find anything else.
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SacredCowSlayer » October 1st, 2018, 1:29 pm wrote:Ben Folds .... is an amazing talent for one. Moreover, there are times when he seems to be telling some brutal truth, as he peppers it throughout his music with wit, and in this case a degree of satire.
Music clips like this, in the same way as clips of other kinds, should, I think, be viewed also in the perspective of frauds and lies.

In my dictionary, the right term to denote such a man as Ben Folds is: a musical clown (homme-orchestre). (I have seen about one hour of his clips. Maybe some kind of mental tax to the empire!) E.g.: Before great audience, he is giving us to believe to compose in “real time” on the podium, which is being the performance itself, some cadences for a symphonic orchestra around him that promptly realizes it. Now, to anybody endowed with a little critical eye (and ear) and who doesn’t wear a fan’s eyeglass while watching, the fraud can not but be obvious.

Bobby McFerrin comes to mind, his being the Cesar of this kind of stunt, and his making the audience --- sing. The whole thing seems with him to be a real wonder of some kind, as he is pulling the figures out of his soul or sometimes seemingly of the audience’s soul and making them sound together… While in truth the whole production is well-rehearsed, with a choir and the soloists and the actors for the gags, and all the latter are sitting among the other viewers “incognito”.

Maybe I am terribly naïve and everybody in the audience is fully conscious of the trick, I don’t know, -- but in this case the matter is much more terrible. As with the all-in “wrestling” show.

And fakery in no ways stops with such tidbits.

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Ben Folds Composes a Song LIVE for Orchestra In Only 10 Minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BytUY_AwTUs
Introduced by Dr. Charles Limb --- he „is a doctor and a musician who researches the way musical creativity works in the brain.”

https://www.ted.com/talks/charles_limb_ ... v#t-133330

„… Artistic creativity is a neurologic product that can be examined using rigorous scientific methods…”
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Mansur » October 5th, 2018, 1:42 pm wrote:
SacredCowSlayer » October 1st, 2018, 1:29 pm wrote:Ben Folds .... is an amazing talent for one. Moreover, there are times when he seems to be telling some brutal truth, as he peppers it throughout his music with wit, and in this case a degree of satire.
Music clips like this, in the same way as clips of other kinds, should, I think, be viewed also in the perspective of frauds and lies.

In my dictionary, the right term to denote such a man as Ben Folds is: a musical clown (homme-orchestre). (I have seen about one hour of his clips. Maybe some kind of mental tax to the empire!) E.g.: Before great audience, he is giving us to believe to compose in “real time” on the podium, which is being the performance itself, some cadences for a symphonic orchestra around him that promptly realizes it. Now, to anybody endowed with a little critical eye (and ear) and who doesn’t wear a fan’s eyeglass while watching, the fraud can not but be obvious.

Bobby McFerrin comes to mind, his being the Cesar of this kind of stunt, and his making the audience --- sing. The whole thing seems with him to be a real wonder of some kind, as he is pulling the figures out of his soul or sometimes seemingly of the audience’s soul and making them sound together… While in truth the whole production is well-rehearsed, with a choir and the soloists and the actors for the gags, and all the latter are sitting among the other viewers “incognito”.

Maybe I am terribly naïve and everybody in the audience is fully conscious of the trick, I don’t know, -- but in this case the matter is much more terrible. As with the all-in “wrestling” show.

And fakery in no ways stops with such tidbits.

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Ben Folds Composes a Song LIVE for Orchestra In Only 10 Minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BytUY_AwTUs
Introduced by Dr. Charles Limb --- he „is a doctor and a musician who researches the way musical creativity works in the brain.”

https://www.ted.com/talks/charles_limb_ ... v#t-133330

„… Artistic creativity is a neurologic product that can be examined using rigorous scientific methods…”
Ben Folds is an entertainer, and I don’t know a single fan who claims anything to the contrary. I’ll just leave it at that.

NOBODY is going to come out and write it on the wall AND still have a sizable audience and platform. I’m open to the idea that some people (perhaps even Ben Folds) are aware of this painful reality, and do have to say certain things in a round-about way so as to avoid being shut down.

Nevertheless, I appreciate wit, satire, and music that is unique and doesn’t sound like everything else.

My post was really meant to be on the lighter hearted side of things here. So chill my friend. It’s Friday. :)
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Is MUSIC used as a propaganda/mind-control tool?

The short answer would have to be, yes. I’m posting the following because I think it’s relevant to this topic.

Eminem FINALLY Grows A Pair And Responds To Lord Jamar

full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YNwqEJfwFc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YNwqEJfwFc

Yanadameen Godcast with Lord Jamar & Rah Digga
Published on Sep 10, 2018

54:33

Lord Jamar: “…let’s talk about Marshall’s biggest influence; that being opioid use in hip-hop and the discussion of it. ‘A recent study done by Project know – an organization set out to promote the understanding of addiction – made several charts in reference to the number of songs mentioning drugs. These charts analyzed the number of references made by your favorite rappers and Eminem was number 1 in the pharmaceutical department.’”
Hip-hop isn’t the first musical genre tied inextricably to drugs – just think back to the trippy tunes of the 1960s and 1970s. But rap’s celebration of all things intoxicating outpaces that of even its wildest pop-culture predecessors, by a long shot.

Drug mentions in rap lyrics have been enormous is quantity and explicit in quality since the genre’s earliest days. From sale to use and even overdose, rap verses reflect the history of drug culture. But how has the relationship between drugs and hip-hop changed over the years? Are today’s emcees still rhyming about the same substances as popularized in the 1980s? Which drugs have faded like fads, and which continue to bounce with the bass of every generation?

https://www.projectknow.com/discover/hi ... -mentions/

viewtopic.php?f=27&t=995&start=30#p2412081
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I’m adding the following as an addendum to my preceding post.
Divide & Conquer: Culture Vulture Lyor Cohen Exposed

full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcUQBznQq2c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcUQBznQq2c

Yanadameen Godcast with Lord Jamar & Rah Digga
Published on Aug 15, 2018

Lyor Cohen, founder of record label 300 Entertainment and former President of Def Jam Recordings, has long been labeled a "culture vulture" by Roc-A-Fella co-founder Dame Dash. While Dame has been dismissed by many as "bitter" or even "crazy", a recent interview that Lyor Cohen gave on The Breakfast Club (2:00) seemed to validate what Dame has been saying about Lyor feeding off the culture of hiphop while not caring about or giving back to the culture (4:21). This episode of the Yanadameen Godcast discusses Lyor's interview as well as the bombshell revelation by Lord Jamar that Brand Nubian broke up after Lyor Cohen created division amongst members of the group (14:23). 0:00 - 1:59 Intro + Todays mathematics 2:00 The Lyor Cohen interview 4:21 Lyor Cohen: "I made my money off sucka MCs" 4:48 Does Lyor exploit artists with drug issues? 6:42 Lyor Cohen: "I don't know Dame Dash" 10:46 Lyor's "Divide & Conquer" broke up Public Enemy 14:23 Brand Nubian + Eric B. and Rakim also divided by Lyor 15:50 Would Lyor promote an artist with anti-jew lyrics? 18:04 When did hiphop start promoting violence/gunplay? 21:48 Outro

[He's also been accused of breaking up Roc-A-Fella and many other labels/groups.]

0:00 - 1:59 Intro + Todays mathematics
2:00 The Lyor Cohen interview
4:21 Lyor Cohen: "I made my money off sucka MCs"
4:48 Does Lyor exploit artists with drug issues?
6:42 Lyor Cohen: "I don't know Dame Dash"
10:46 Lyor's "Divide & Conquer" broke up Public Enemy
14:23 Brand Nubian + Eric B. and Rakim also divided by Lyor
15:50 Would Lyor promote an artist with anti-jew lyrics?
18:04 When did hiphop start promoting violence/gunplay?
21:48 Outro

Here’s a link to the full Lyor Cohen “Breakfast Club” interview.

Lyor Cohen Talks Migos Issues with 300 Ent, Kanye West + more!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sitMVitcB8c

Lyor accused Public Enemy's Professor Griff of “going nuts” when he discussed the same topic(s) (viewtopic.php?p=2407767#p2407767) that the late Professor Tony Martin had spoken on.

Professor Griff on Getting Kicked Out of Public Enemy for Anti-Jewish Comments
In this interview with Professor Griff, he opens up about the backlash he received in the past over anti-Semitic comments, which he says was cut down from a full informative interview. Also, the activist goes in talks about being kicked out of the Public Enemy during their press conference and admits that he might've "rearranged furniture" if he was there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5bjniiNzu8

It's worth mentioning that Mr. Cohen is the current president of YouTube Music.


“You don't need a formal conspiracy when interests converge. These people went to the same universities and fraternities, they're on the same boards of directors, they're on the same country clubs, they have like-interests. They don't need to call a meeting; they know what is good for THEM, and they are getting it.”
–George Carlin
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All you need is love?

Angela Merkel’s Ugly Romance With the Iranian Regime
Why Germany seeks to increase trade with a murderous theocracy bent on Israel’s destruction
By Benjamin Weinthal

In a remarkable comment that was ignored by the German media last month, the president of the country’s roughly 100,000-member Central Council of Jews suggested that Germany has failed to internalize the lessons of the Holocaust. According to Dr. Josef Schuster, Angela Merkel’s flourishing trade with a regime in Tehran that is both the leading state sponsor of terrorism in the world and also the world’s top sponsor of lethal anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial, is incompatible with the spirit of the Federal Republic’s own foundational commitments, and with the laws of a country where Holocaust denial is a crime punishable by up to five years in prison.

The German society’s so-called “working through of its past” can also culminate in large numbers of Germans, to paraphrase the writer Wolfgang Pohrt, behaving as Israel’s probation officers, acting on the highest moral grounds to stop “their victims” from recidivism. This form of morality-animated anti-Semitism is quite widespread in the Federal Republic, where a recent government-commissioned anti-Semitism report revealed that 40 percent of Germans across the political spectrum hold anti-Semitic attitudes. The German journalist Eike Geisel (1945-1997) captured one of the least discussed forms of anti-Semitism in his country.

To be against Israel in the name of peace is something new,” Geisel wrote. “This new anti-Semitism does not arise from base instincts, nor is it the product of honorable political intentions. It is the morality of morons.

Henryk Broder and Geisel played crucial roles in the 1980s and ’90s, in the German-speaking world, by dissecting the loathing of Israel as a result of incorrigible reactionary peace movements and widespread “guilt-defensiveness anti-Semitism,” a term coined by the German Jewish philosophers Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer in the 1940s to capture the German reaction to the Shoah. In broad terms, Germans seek to purge the pathological guilt associated with the crimes of the National Socialists by blaming Jews for war crimes. The Israeli psychoanalyst Zvi Rex, in a flash of biting historical sarcasm, reduced Adorno and Horkheimer’s theory to a single profound sentence: “The Germans will never forgive the Jews for Auschwitz.”

Today’s Germans, it seems, will never forgive Israel for the Holocaust. The preoccupation with turning Israel into a human punching bag expresses itself across all walks of life in Germany. The sociological forces unfolding in Germany do not portend even a semblance of a solid base of support for Israel. In contrast to the situation in the United States, where there are broad swaths of grassroot support for Israel that inform power politics, German support for Israel has been a project of the country’s political elite, which now seems preoccupied with increasing trade with a murderous theocracy bent on Israel’s destruction. The absorption of over one million Muslim refugees and economic migrants into German society, many of whom were socialized to despise Israel and Jews, adds to the already existing anti-Israel hysteria in the country.

As for the roughly 100,000 members of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, it is hard to imagine how their future is likely to get brighter.

https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-a ... erkel-iran


Was Theodor Adorno “The Fifth Beatle”?
How a conspiracy theory about the Frankfurt School made its way around the world
Andrew Woods
October 8, 2019


Yet Carvalho’s assertions are not new: similar claims have been circulating on the far right since the late 1970s. The idea that Adorno was the secret songwriter for the Beatles is a byproduct of an antisemitic conspiracy theory, known as “Cultural Marxism,” that the main members of the Frankfurt School emigrated to the United States in the 1930s in order to implant political correctness, multiculturalism, and feminism into American culture.

https://publicseminar.org/essays/was-th ... th-beatle/
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The Godcast on the meaning of Christmas, and 2019's best rap albums and TV shows

full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnK4yyxiAwY
Dec 25, 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnK4yyxiAwY

A belated Happy Birthday to the one and only Rah Digga!


And a happy “Nimrod’s Day” to you as well, my “lord.”
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Strange stories of The Beatles
hoi.polloi wrote: Tue Jan 06, 2015 5:50 pm Odd, isn't it? It makes one suspect that his job is to serve as the "left gatekeeper" of the Alex Jones/Judy Wood pseudo-truther crowd. He will represent for most people in that "camp" the most lefty, loony, woo-woo version of a follower. If he were to follow the same old pattern with which we're all too familiar, we would soon see him publicly "explore" a couple more theories about 9/11 before finally dismissing all the evidence of TV fakery, settling slightly back into the "Architects and Engineers" position and begin a campaign of ad hominem attacks against those looking at the evidence with any sort of critical or forensic discernment. I expect this to come soon, unless he truly is the great mind he claims he is.

On the other hand, I highly regard the points (that we and many others have alleged, if not articulated as well as Mathis) that the Beatles were part of an intelligence experiment to see if American rebelliousness could be seduced into some kind of passive British authoritarianism, and which derailed when its participants (the Beatles/Featles we "know and love") became more interested in Anglo-American fame, celebrity, fortune and the power game itself rather than serving anything else. But who knows? It was a weird time. And ours seems to only get weirder the more we learn about it.

Prophetic words, my good sir!
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Lord Jamar Responds to Eminem Saying He's the Weakest Link in Brand Nubian (Part 2)

full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9Le5G5pDUE
Jan 23, 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9Le5G5pDUE

Lord Jamar (to Eminem): Nobody listens to your fuckin' $chitt! B)
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