You can randomly combine a bunch of phonemes and slap that word on some intangible entity, but that doesn't necessarily mean that said entity exists.
Nietzsche and Runaway Audio Consumption
Came across this today. A lot of posts bring up the issue of "how much is enough?" or "when is audio consumption justified" etc.
Does this Nietzsche aphorism apply to audio buying? You be the judge!
Friedrich Nietzsche: “Danger in riches. — Only he who has spirit ought to have possessions: otherwise possessions are a public danger. For the possessor who does not know how to make use of the free time which his possessions could purchase him will always continue to strive after possessions: this striving will constitute his entertainment, his strategy in his war against boredom.
Thus in the end the moderate possessions that would suffice the man of spirit are transformed into actual riches – riches which are in fact the glittering product of spiritual dependence and poverty. They only appear quite different from what their wretched origin would lead one to expect because they are able to mask themselves with art and culture: for they are, of course, able to purchase masks. By this means they arouse envy in the poorer and the uncultivated – who at bottom are envying culture and fail to recognize the masks as masks – and gradually prepare a social revolution: for gilded vulgarity and histrionic self-inflation in a supposed ‘enjoyment of culture’ instil into the latter the idea ‘it is only a matter of money’ – whereas, while it is to some extent a matter of money, it is much more a matter of spirit.”
Nietzsche, Friedrich. 1996. Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits. Cambridge University Press. (p. 283-4, an aphorism no. 310)
I'm pretty sure @mahgister will want to read this one! (Because they speak so artfully about avoiding the diversion that consumption poses to the quest for true aesthetic and acoustic excellence.)
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@hilde45 , that was some great and brilliant animation. All the best, |
You are perfectly right like as usual being wrong in your original way mocking every "tinfoil hat" there is, be it mystics or audiophile crystal users ( like me)...... But wait a minute is a born blind man has the right to declare "colors" only "words" because he cannot experience them ? Is this a proof of something? common place and pleonasm are not arguments do you catch the difference? Think for a minute instead of sticking to your narrow and boring seemingly "down to earth" opinion.... Sorry but you are a specialist of the 2 line sarcasm here about "tweaks" and now it seems about mystics......I respect ONLY arguments and experience...Take your common place sentence at the opposite location of where i put my "tin foil hat"... By the way ask me politely and i will explain to you how to perceive intangible entity using the rigourously Goethan method, illustrated by Wolfgang Schad in a 1300 pages book about the morphology and environment of animals i just bought... Perhaps you will understand now after that better than your cheap clothes used to the fabric at discount nominalism....And you will spare not only to mystics of all countries but also to audiophiles of the world your next boring sarcasm...
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But are we choosing? Hundreds of thousands of images especially during our formative years pulling us hither and thither. And forget the theories. We are the experiment with no controls. Not sure we or the theorists have a clue as to the outcome. Those in power will do what they can to continue in power but they have no ultimate say. As the printing press led to the Reformation and it’s attendant ills and positives, so television and the internet will lead us to salvation or oblivion. Or maybe not. Who knows, just somewhere very uncertain. Let them eat data.
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In the era of television the greatest ploy against humanity, save all the useless marketed wars, was the conditioned marketing mass manipulation for corporations of the people into consumers, it was not "communism" which is now erased save in China, because corporations let it grow for greed reason and because they need this fear to controls us.... In the era of internet the greatest ploy against humanity is the technological transhumanism cult of power by corporations which are all of them ruled and/or controlled by 3 main investment corporation worldwide, Vanguard, Blacrock and i forgot the other name... It is not conspiracy but proven, open fact for all to see... All crisis were manufactured from at least 3 centuries ago from the teachings of some master manipulators, one of them being a genius born in 1670, so clever and underrated most dont know even his name in low level " intellectual" elite : Bernard Mandeville... In spite of that underestimated general status the world was rigorously ruled with his discoveries about the way humans are workable animals, and animals themselves pure machines like said Descartes... How surprizing this worldeview is the actual view in transhumnanism corporate cult whose center is in Davos and central bankers and big corporations like Google... How surprizing central private bankers were introduced in control in US in 1913, after corporate interests destroyed Tesla, destroyed humans transforming them in consumers, before transforming them in cyborgs tomorrow... Freedom where it is? I can vote some sleepwalker will say.... Democrats are communist and republican are honest men, or the reverse democrats are rational and republicans elite powered greed robots... All this political litterature is pure non-sense created by design ,the cookbook is written for all elite grreed power to use from Mandeville...Orwell and the Huxley brothers are not geniuses, the real genius know better than them centuries before them... The same useless debates exist in audio with the programmed consumerism under the technlogical hubris power... Basic acoustic and psycho-acoustic science is not at the center but put aside with irrational ready made costly "technological" solutions... Ok audio debates are nothing compared to world debates but one mirror the other: no basic kowledge of science rule here, only technological power at all scale from the audio gear to higher tech hubris...Sound is not first and last the result of electronic technology but from acoustic and psycho-acoustic principles from millenia ago... Freedom exist in our hand, all social engineering exist to erase this fact from our consciousness...But you must think and study and with this vaccinate yourself with the only necessary core vaccination : thinking process... Remember that the immune system could be programmed by healthier life and right thinking and some kind of music by the way... Ask Christ or Buddha and Helmholtz and some others , not to your congressman or health minister or to your favorite consumer market....
Merry christmast to all... I will quit for sometime and i apologize to the OP who was right from the beginning really i speak too much... He is a very generous man especially with me... I am a retired fool...
P.S. this article is free for download and is only the TIP of the iceberg Mandeville but it is a beginning... THE INFLUENCE OF BERNARD MANDEVILLE BY F. B. KAYE Even to scholars Bernard Mandeville’s Fable of the Bees is now little more than a name and the recollection of a long-dead scandal. Yet the book had an extraordinary effect on the history of thought, an effect international in scope and still felt. Indeed, so great was Mandeville’s influence that he can, I believe, be shown to be a major dignitary of eighteenth century thought. To demonstrate this is the aim of the present paper... https://www.jstor.org/stable/4171820?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents Another cue: «Bernard Mandeville’s work, The Fable of the Bees, put forth the idea of a social order which did not rely on a central design to function, but rather on the individual actions of its constituents; this was adopted by Charles Darwin in his theory that life creates order and change not because of a providential guiding force, but through its own existence.» |
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