<div>Bravo Carlo!</div>
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<div>I share your world's visio:I want a free world too, outside of the software too. Besides,the world is dying (sorry about my english) because of polution and misery (money),so, we need a free world,free food, free houses, free everithing.
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<div>For now, I just make Musix GNU+Linux, and this is making musicians to make free music, and tobe free as in freedom while them make their music, so, I am happy whit That</div>
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<div>Un abrazo desde Argentina,el granero del mundo!<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">2006/12/23, Carlo Capocasa <<a href="mailto:capocasa@gmx.net">capocasa@gmx.net</a>>:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">... and why that's relevant to any of us here who are smart enough not<br>to care!<br><br>Well I don't know about you guys, but to me when I was a kid, 'cool' was
<br>always a mystery.<br><br>I had a friend who gave himself a 'cool' image and I kind of liked my<br>intelligent philosopher image (that's not what I thought of it at the<br>time but I think it discribes it quite well) so we eventually drifted
<br>apart. He also tried to kind of 'lift' me onboard to hang with the cool<br>kids, but you know... For one thing, this involved starting to spend<br>massive amounts of money on alcohol, and for another, it seemed kind of
<br>hard to me to actually do something interesting and be cool at the same<br>time.<br><br>But I still knew there was something there. Being kind of a geek loner<br>dude, I knew I didn't want to go around and 'be' cool then and there and
<br>pay the price, namely let go of my values, as I would call it today. But<br>'cool' had something. What was this mysterious cool? I had to know.<br><br>Today I have found out many things that are uniquely relevant to 'cool'.
<br><br>For one thing, I realized a lot of cool kids of the time are on WELFARE<br>now. Not to say that's a sign of failure, I went through the same thing<br>for a short while when I dropped out of university to start my first
<br>business. It's not failure, but it is a sign that 'coolness' did not<br>seem to have a lot of relevance when it came to survival. In school,<br>that was grades. Here in the world where people who make food, shelter
<br>and clothing all expect money in return, we're at the mercy of the cold,<br>hard cash. But we're certainly not at the mercy of the 'cool' hard cash,<br>that's for sure! Ask any engineer.<br><br>But then there were all of these marketing types who appeared to
<br>actually be able to convert 'cool' to payments. And there were the<br>'stars' and the 'media phenomenons', who all appeared to do the same<br>thing. My emphasis is on 'appeared', because according to musicians who
<br>broke free the music industry is all about who slept with whom and who<br>owes whom a favor, much more so even than who is cool. But then they<br>somehow usurped the authority of what 'cool' is. And then it hit me.
<br><br>'Cool' has absolutely nothing to do with desirable, even though it<br>pretends to be that way. Anything that happens to be desirable isn't<br>really, it's only there to lure you into believing there is.
<br><br>'Cool' essentially means 'approved by an external authority'. Cool can<br>be anything specific that authority assigns to be cool. Tomorrow, 'cool'<br>can mean 'carries a tracking microchip under his skin which also
<br>functions as a member card to certain elitist dance clubs'. This is<br>REALITY TODAY in certain circles in Spain, as foolish as that is. (I'm<br>sorry I don't have sources for that right now, I WILL do better at
<br>citing in future articles). But that's only an illustration on how<br>ludicrous 'cool' can be. In a lot of circles, stealing is 'cool'. Guns<br>are 'cool'. Violence is 'cool'. Even rape can be 'cool'. It's all up to
<br>who is making up the rools of what cool means. But, regardless of who is<br>making the rules, it is all about one thing:<br><br>'Cool' is about someone else validating you. Saying you are 'all right',<br>
'accepted', and 'have a right to live'. Of course, these things can<br>also take other forms (like deriving that approval from a job and<br>productivity) but, essentially, it is all the same thing, and in pop
<br>culture, where survival is already taken care of by a job and<br>entertainment is key, external approval takes the form 'cool'.<br><br>This is a tremendous control device. When someone is so afraid of being<br>
rejected he or she needs an external source of validation, absolutely<br>anything will do. ANYTHING. And when there is more than one source, the<br>source that is the most impressive to the subconscious mind wins.<br><br>
The cool kids do not dress shiny because that's part of being cool. Cool<br>kids dress shiny because their 'leader' (where there is 'cool' there is<br>also a 'leader', or 'sociopath' if you prefer that term) has used
<br>superficial attractiveness and impressiveness, superficial because it<br>only deals with the 'animal' aspects of us and hence has nothing to do<br>with values, sustainability or love, but only with: "Is it shiny? Is it
<br>symmetric? Is it aesthetic in some way? Does it seem mysterious and<br>special if I don't dig too deep?"<br><br>Hence, we have the typical behaviours of that insane bunch of idiots<br>(I'm sorry about the term, but yes, I would say cool kids qualify as
<br>idiots, for the most part, according to most definitions of sanity,<br>certainly of mine) who call themselves 'cool kids' explained quite<br>neatly. And, of course, since there is now no growth to seek because
<br>anything outside of the boundaries of 'cool' is out of bounds, enter<br>competition as a superficial struggle to give life meaning. Hence we<br>have football, baseball, ping pong, but also chess, street behavior,
<br>gangs, and, ultimately, armies, secret services, and war.<br><br>Ever notice how 'cool kids' seem drawn to James Bond? Guess why. The<br>answer is in who gets to be the official authority of designation in<br>
'what cool is'. Yes, that's right! To be dictator of coolness you must<br>fight for it... anyone who realizes what WE just realized and sets out<br>to be one of the 'leaders' to profit from the sheep's ignorance has
<br>competition. There are only so many sheep, and to feed one wolf it takes<br>many sheep, so the wolves fight to the death (literally) for who gets to<br>control the sheep... By defining cool and punishing the un-cool. Yep...
<br>The only condition for 'cool' is it must be specific enough so the<br>un-cool can be punished, excluded, even persecuted. This has happened<br>over and over again through history.<br><br>THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE IN PRINCIPLE BETWEEN THE COOL KIDS IN HIGH SCHOOL
<br>AND THE SPANISH INQUISITION.<br><br>All right... now where are we going with this? I am writing here because<br>I want to make linux audio POPULAR with the masses. Why? Linux audio<br>embodies free spirit. It is very difficult to work with linux audio if
<br>you are not a free spirited person, because if you're not a free<br>spirited person using linux audio is a very difficult thing to do<br>because it violates the way you think. ("It's too complicated" "So many
<br>distributions... what is a distribution, anyway? It's way too<br>confusing..." "There's so much choice I don't know what to do") much in<br>the same way using Windows violates the way you think if you ARE free
<br>spirited ("Microsoft is trying to control me and limit my freedom").<br><br>In other words, music produced with linux audio is bound to be free<br>spirited in nature. It is INHERENTLY free spirited. You don't get any
<br>freer today than linux audio.<br><br>And I want to make the free spirit the way the world works. I want no<br>less than to end hierarchy, to end competition, to end war, to end any<br>nonsense talk of 'natural selection' (don't worry not to replace it with
<br>'God created us all but hates some of us', another manifestation of the<br>'cool' scenario, but to replace it with 'God created us all, and there<br>happens not to be a distinction between God and me, since the only sane
<br>definition of God is "The Collective of all beings", so God created<br>itself in a collaborative process, and Free Software is part of that<br>process. So is, in fact, proprietary software, but on a lower level of
<br>evolution')<br><br>In other word, I intend to replace the 'cool' paradigm of 'be cool and<br>adhere to my specific requirements' to 'you're already cool, there's<br>nothing specific you need to do to be 'cool'.
<br><br>So there goes 'cool' out the Window. If you don't give any specifics of<br>coolness, there is no longer such a thing as 'cool', simply because<br>there no longer is such a thing as 'uncool'.
<br><br>So I decided to learn from the experience and find an expression that I<br>can use to make the new thought of 'anything goes' more attractive to<br>sheep. After all, the thing 'cool kids' do to lure victims into their
<br>cobwebs is to use shiny stuff, sweet stuff, intoxicating stuff,<br>addicting stuff. Smart cool kids (yeah, not the way we're smart, but<br>there ARE a few reasonably intelligent cool kids, although they usually<br>
hide it quite well. I'm not saying wise, just intelligent.) all use this<br>to hide the fact that 'coolness' is a very unwise place to be, simply<br>because it leads to emotional breakdown and dullness and uniformity,
<br>much like fascist regimes, in fact the cool kids in school ARE small<br>fascist regimes, so they lure the kids in with all kinds of monuments<br>and ritual and stuff that makes the animal mind, which controls the<br>emotions, go 'Oooooh, wow!'.
<br><br>According to a Hawaiian Shaman, Serge Kahili King, who has rightfully<br>earned my respect, there are two ways to be impressive to the<br>subconscious mind. One: Sensory detail like high-detail image, touch,<br>sound, smell and taste, and two, repitition.
<br><br>This is, by the way, the process that I use on my OWN subconscious mind<br>to control my own behavior. I have a small notepad on which I wrote my<br>intentions as if they were already here, like: "I am a famous musician."
<br>"I am a technology innovator" "I am a famous sex symbol." "I love people<br>and I show it." "It easy for me to make friends" and so on and so forth.<br>So I read these every day, and because I read it so often, my
<br>subconscious mind starts to believe it and my so called 'affirmations'<br>become a self-fulfilling prophecy. That's using the 'repitition'<br>concept. The second thing I do is I think about myself on stage, with my
<br>stage outfit and nice little linux audio box sitting next to me,<br>performing like crazy, again, as if it were already here (which, to my<br>subconscious mind, it is). Here I am using the 'detail and shinyness'
<br>concept. These are the only two ways our subconscious mind can tell<br>important from unimportant stuff.<br><br>Of course, some shrewd people have used this knowledge to create 'mental<br>prisons', where people think they are powerless and dependant, but that
<br>is simply not true. You can start writing your linux software project<br>and making a living off your GPL licensed software TODAY... If you<br>decide that you can do it. All it takes, is that you use these two<br>techniques, impressiveness and repition, until you BELIEVE FULLY that
<br>you can do it, at which point it will happen pretty much automatically.<br>Our space isn't as dense as one might have thought, on the contrary;<br>it's all just subconscious minds mingling with each other on various
<br>frequencies, which is the same thing as objects, concepts, ideas, and<br>emotion. These four things are the same thing, at various levels of<br>density! Think about the implications of that.<br><br>So these 'cool' people use this knowledge to 'impress' other people's
<br>subconscious minds into perceiving them as important without exactly<br>knowing why, but nonetheless acting on these impulses as 'God given',<br>sometimes literally, sometimes more metaphorically ("Look at that Guitar
<br>God!").<br><br>So I finally realized why I was so intrigued with cool people: I was,<br>essentially, looking for techniques to impress my subconscious with<br>stuff *I* (my conscious mind, where my values and long-term benefits
<br>thinking is) found right for *me*, and hence, one might say, run my own<br>brain, finally.<br><br>Stuart Lichtman, another man I respect a lot, had phrased it this way:<br>Your brain is like a massively parallel computer, that is both analogue
<br>and digital at the same time. Now paraphrasing: You program it by making<br>the analogue part (your subconscious) impressive enough until your<br>'digital' instructions (conscious instructions) are impressed on it. You
<br>program digital, but you transfer the digital using analogue techniques.<br>This is exactly the same as with a hard drive: You have binary data on<br>it, but to get the binary data on the disk, you use various, analogue
<br>methods of, for example, magnetism, which you at an arbitrary point<br>separate into zeros and ones. This programming process is absolutely no<br>different to computers, which explains why we, as a species, were able<br>
to invent them in the first place.<br><br>So right now, what's happening, essentially, is that we're running<br>someone else's software. Again, that is absolutely no different than<br>Microsoft making sure they're the only operating system that you can get
<br>on the market. They force you to update when *they* want, even force you<br>to connect to a wireless network when *they* want, simply because if<br>they would not do this their authoritarian programming style would break
<br>down.<br><br>That is exactly like the programs most of us inherited from our parents:<br>go to school, join the cool kids, get a job, play the same game with<br>your boss, make babies, pass on what you know (which is hardly different
<br>from what your parents knew and taught you), wither, and die.<br>Depressing? Yep. That's why we're all here in the linux audio community,<br>to change all that. Linux really IS changing the world, because embedded
<br>in the way it works are principles that can change EVERYTHING when they<br>are applied to the rest of the world. Think of bazaar style<br>supermarkets! Farms! Heck, governments! (They would cease to be<br>governments, more like 'recommendation centers', much like the W3C
<br>consortium, saying this cautiously and not knowing much about it).<br>That's the REAL reason why we're all here on the web forums in our free<br>time when we could be somewhere else. It's this great opportunity to
<br>change the world to be a free, loving place.<br><br>So where does that leave us with 'cool'? Well, the cool kids know how to<br>program minds. They are using it for stupid purposes, however, we, the<br>'smart' kids, are too awquard with our programming tools, our
<br>subconscious minds, that a lot of us cannot really implement our<br>intelligence with any sort of confidence. So what we need to do is merge<br>the two worlds: We 'smart' kids must apply our intelligence for it to
<br>become wisdom, and learn to speak the language of our emotions (which is<br>the same thing as our subconscious language, repetition and sensory<br>detail), and the 'cool' kids must learn to be more open to their
<br>thoughtful and intelligent aspects, which, among most 'cool kid'<br>cliques, is pretty much a crime to do, which I perceive as simply<br>because if all 'cool' peasants keep each other dumb it is easier for the
<br>street smart lord to exploit them. So 'cool' kids learn that being<br>'cool' is a prison, and exploiters, left without anyone to exploit,<br>learn that they can actually produce value to survive instead of
<br>competing at various arbitrary contests. And we, the educated, stop<br>whining about being excluded and stop trying to find ways to out-smart<br>each other (just another 'cool' trap, if we use our intelligence to
<br>compete at some contest or to build weapons we will earn the approval<br>form the same source the 'cool' kids get it but it will only help us<br>realize how futile relying on external approval is), and start using our
<br>intelligence for *constructive* purposes, and using our knowledge we<br>have learned from the 'cool kids' to actually convince people to follow<br>our recommendations and earn the greatest benefits.<br><br>I'm gonna do that with song. I'm gonna be so cool I'm gonna be blazing.
<br>I'm also going to be laughed at because I'm going to be very sexy, and<br>as a man, you get called 'gay' and laughed at if you're sexy, mostly to<br>pressure men into defining their value on the sex market by how well
<br>they compete. But I'm brave, I don't care. And I'm going to be immensily<br>impressive by any standards (of subconscious minds), and I'm going to<br>lure immense amounts of people into taking me for an authoritative
<br>figure, much the same way any cool kid does.<br><br>And then I will brainwash the fuckers into believing the actually have<br>CHOICE in life, and that it is a good thing to take INITIATIVE and<br>create whatever the hell they WANT in their life. Just like I'm doing now.
<br><br>And much like, after finding out and having been tought that I can<br>CREATE ANYTHING I WANT IN LIFE I'm not creating myself playing more<br>video games, an attractive option as long as I believed I was powerless
<br>to accomplish stuff in REAL life, but I'm going out attempting to help<br>people in a way no one has before, I believe those empowered people will<br>find a way to help me back, and hoping there will be at least some
<br>vegetable farmers among them, that they will start sustaining people for<br>free. Or, as an interim, give me money as donations, but I like the<br>vegetable gift thing better, somehow :)<br><br>So this is what I wanted to share with you, my message to you given
<br>everything I have learned about how the world works, and probably the<br>reason why silicon valley firms exist, because we read the same books;<br>(Look for "The Master Key System" by Charles F Haanel, this is
<br>supposedly what Bill Gates read to build his empire, only he used it<br>less constructively than we will) and what I want us to accomplish is<br>that we will have more impact on the world than any company ever could.<br>
This is already happening, but the more 'enlightened' developers we<br>have, in other words, developers who are aware of how the mind can be<br>programmed and are hence incredibly effective, even at the stuff they
<br>are ALREADY good at, the stuff YOU are already good at, we can become<br>even MORE effective at producing excellent software...<br><br>... AND MAKING THE TIME TO DO SO by getting our asses out of any sorry<br>job we might have.
<br><br>That is playing with our survival instincts for sure, and is not an<br>*easy* thing to do, although it is a *simple* thing to do. Just go out,<br>get your affirmation card, and write one it something along the lines
<br>of: "I am a free software developer and I can sustain myself." The rest,<br>my friend, will be history.<br><br>And why am I writing all this stuff to you? I'm a musician! I want more<br>free software to play with. Code it now!
<br><br>;)<br><br>I love you guys. All of you.<br><br>Carlo<br><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>-- <br>Marcos Guglielmetti <br>* Director del desarrollo de Musix GNU+Linux, 100% Software Libre<br>* CD Donwload: (
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