We shape the world and the world shapes us.
(i) Seeing well-meaning public figures fighting
Climate Change on MTV is like seeing MONSANTO
put in an organic garden at the White House.
The corporatizing of musical culture is part of
the problem, not part of the solution. May the
Muses take pity upon us.
(ii) Charity sees the need, but not the cause.
Billionaires giving their cash to philanthropy is
like the dukes of old buying blessings from the
Pope. The vain hope of whitewashing lives of
corruption with seeming good deeds does not
erase the sin of a financial system which is
inherently in the most insidious of ways
imbalanced and unfair.
(iii) Contradiction is the essence of unsustainability.
Why? Because when two movements ’speak against,’
or are in conflict with one another, it is like two
misfitting gears grinding in opposing self-destructive
directions. The waste of energy inherent in contradiction
CAN be the engine of creative change, but only when
the contradiction is resolved at a new, higher level
of harmony. All else is the mere noise of conflict.