May you give me ( us ) , some names of good quality recording Cello music.
Cello and English Horn have become my prefered instruments .
I am dependant of my audio gear’s possession .
But I use streaming ( Tidal ) . No CD
thanks
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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Dr.Mabuse film reminding us of the mass hysteria climate at the dawn of the second world war , just after the first war, is not only a great piece of cinema but an occasion to think about the factors which related our own crisis to this crisis at the beginning of the last century... Mass hysteria and crowds psychosis in Germany is related to the media controls, the fear and anxieties growing diffusion, the lost of any rationality, the division of the population in 2 new groups among all others divisions, the pervert use of the emissary goat process by some "elite in control", and the creation of an "artiicial" consensus in the population to be controlled, and with that the suspension of any democratic process.. I am flabbergasted by history....By psychological science , by the minority of people in a spiritual resistance... I wish for the world a new better year than the last 2... There is no death, save the lost of thinking and the lost of hope because of fear..
What about consumerism? It will be no more the tool for controlling the mass peacefuly, hidden totalitarian dictatorship is the only way our "elite" sees a future... Those who own something and are possessed by what they own, without this free spirit about which spoke N. will the first to be crushed...It is time to be free, listening music with the bare essentials, to cure ourself not to go in an artificial hiding from reality... Music is a poison or a cure.... To all i wish the best from my heart for this year....
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"I am flabbergasted by history....By psychological science , by the minority of people in a spiritual resistance..."
Well, some people do say that history has a way of repeating itself. Perhaps not surprising given that human needs and desires remain the same as they always did. Mind you, only some people say that. The majority seem to be blissfully unaware of any history other than that portrayed by the Hollywood propaganda department. If you can accept the Feynman theory of learning ie focus, understanding, being able to recall and then to explain to others, then you can see where the problem might lie. Just how many fall at this first hurdle?
Media driven fear porn addiction seems to robbed far too many of their ability to even focus, let alone do any of the rest. Voting patterns have long established just how show the collective memory can be. The human mind is a great thing, no doubt. Unfortunately it doesn't come with any kind of user manual. Basically most of the major wars since 1815 have been bankers wars, and yet... Not a single movie has dared to depict them as such. A similar fate awaits the end of the Plandemic. The lovely Dr Fauci has already hinted that another p(l)andemic is likely. And still, even after a global disaster no one asks why we need we need so many of these highly dangerous BSL-4 labs. Of course, we shouldn't worry. We can trust big pharma. They would never ever deliberately release deadly viruses just for the sake of profit, would they? Of course not! The owners of big pharma are totally above human vices and greed, aren't they? |
I will add something to Feynman because focusing on a problem or on a question could be damaging by itself in some case.. Focusing and AT THE SAME TIME learning how to not focusing, but giving the problem to a part of our mind and going on on some other related or not related questions and field is very important in philosophy...Anyway philosophy is by definition multidisciplinary... Poetic and even astrology or mathematics can be philosophical tools and concern or any other fields ... For sure if like Andrew Wyles you want to solve a mathematical problem, you must focus on it only non stop for 7 years to do so... Or if you must solve some a precise physic problem like Feyman related to an Apollo rocket mistake engineering piece, you must focus non stop for some days.. But philosophy is not mathematics nor engineering... Problems are not enigma to be solved but deep mysteries to be cautiously and indirectly approached with reverence and deep devotion... Problems here cannot be "solved" they can only be described in a new perspective for a new consciousness... Goethe method in his natural science morphological observation deeply pointed to the fact that solutions and problems are interrelated perceived individual and at the same time universal "symbolic forms" like a particular undulated line drawn on a sheet of paper will be very differently perceived and described , by a monk, a painter, a shaman, a musician, a geometer, a mariner thinking about waves, or an alchemist, or by a physicist specialized in Fourier analysis, or by a meteorologist describing the sky.... There is no form without meaning and there is no meaning without form.... The formless is itself a "form"....And any form speak from the formless... Then going back to your observation : most people are unable to focus consciously, and much more unable to learn how to not focus consciously and mastering the art of attention... Attention imply 2 levels polarity : the foci, and the periphereal....
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History never repeat itself like in a circle, but repeat itself like on an helicoidal cycle.. The same and not the same .... The "Great Year cycle" in traditional astronomy, is a perfect illustration of that...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Year
Thinking that events in the universe and on Earth were completely unrelated and did never affect one another is now scientifically ridiculous... Guess what happened when mankind detonated thermonuclear weapon in the sky ? Guess what happen to our sun crossing different parts of the galaxy and "coughing" toward Earth ?
There exist proven scientific facts, but also science give us way more than numerous small proven facts, science give to each ERA his own abilty to imagine new rational and possible perspectives even if these perspective cannot be strictly proven to exist... Darwin never strictly proved that man descend from the ape, he gives us a rational relation and new perspective by pointing to ape and man in an environmental context....... Basic human needs dont change but they express themselves in new ways through all evolution and through all history....These transformation of their expression is history... When Cesar decided coming back from his Gallic wars to cross the Rubicon river WITH HIS ARMY it was a SYMBOLIC gesture of rebellion against the Rome republic, which expressed a basic need for total freedom but in a new context... Semiotic teach us that symbols are real like a tree is real for consciousness...Rubicon is not just a mass of flowing water....
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