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No, I am not promoting “the cross”. Not everything is a pun, goddamnit. I’m a buddhist. Sub-buddhist at best, maybe. So what.<\/p>\n


\nI have another blog for my musical endeavors.<\/a> I think I hate it. I don’t think blogging and art mix that well anymore. Maybe blogging and life in general don’t mix that well anymore. Not how I’m doing it anyway. Well, it was all an experiment. Fine.<\/p>\n

So I have this post on politics now. <\/a> Please note that this post is “Uncategorized”. Every other post is under the “music” category, presumably because every post is about music that I have made or am involved in making, unlike<\/em> “Music Ja Nai<\/a>“, which is not about that.<\/p>\n

Got all that? OK, so I don’t think music or art in general mix with politics. The subject of art can be political, but the making of it can’t, at least within anything close to any “normal” kind of ideal. Take Komar and Melamid’s Most Wanted\/Unwanted Song<\/a>, democracy in action. Extremely well-done, but not making anyone’s heavy rotation. (Pretty sure FMU has played the Most Unwanted song at least a dozen times, but that doesn’t count.)<\/p>\n

A lot of people don’t like politics because it’s boring. Yes! It should be boring. When politics gets exciting, there’s a serious problem. We all vote on what we’re trading for something else and that’s about it. Civil rights and religion should not even be political issues. I might sound like a conservative sometimes but I hate conservatives as much as nutso utopians. Really they are almost the same thing; Conservatives just think that utopia was achieved at some point in the past. (Altho I am picking FDR as my favorite president…what can you do.) Objectively<\/em> speaking a progressively taxed democracy benefits the most people. (Also, objectively speaking Ayn Rand was a terrible writer.) It’s not socialism, but it’s half-way. So it’s also half-fascist? Does that make any sense? If it’s not all the way it’s not either, it’s democracy. Boring shit, the way it should be. Does your water meter have TV in it? No. It’s not there to entertain you. It just has it’s job, in the background. “Oh shit, we used a lot of water this month. Could use less or I could FUCK YOU, WATER METER!!!” Not the meter’s fault, dude. Could protest for free water, how do you know the water’s clean? Who fixes the pipes? Shit costs money. <\/p>\n

This is where things break down: music is not clean water. Art is not civil rights. Since I don’t have extreme beliefs, I have no need to speak in code. The idea that current Republicans (since Reagan) are ruining the country is the moderate position<\/em>. I tried to make it clever because stating the obvious is not an interesting topic. Maybe you’re<\/em> a closet Republican! Ever thought of that? <\/p>\n

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