[LAU] Some disturbing news

David Kastrup dak at gnu.org
Sat Jun 2 20:10:13 CEST 2018


jonetsu <jonetsu at teksavvy.com> writes:

> On Sat, 2 Jun 2018 08:15:21 -0600
> robertlazarski <robertlazarski at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Looks like we hit Godwin's law. Time for me to make some music and
>> tune out of this thread.
>  
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law
>
> Well, if you insist on having a wikipedia link, how about "Operation
> Paperclip" ?
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip
>
> As David mentioned, saying that they're just doing their jobs does not
> cut it.

Well, that was actually theme of Tom Lehrer's "Wernher von Braun" song
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTKn1aSOyOs>.  Part of the anthology
"That was the year that was" (I think 1965).

Lehrer dropped out of satire eventually and went back to teaching
mathematics.  His general feeling of futility was sort of captured by
him remarking that "political satire became obsolete when Henry
Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize" (after bombing an
uninvolved Cambodia if I remember correctly) but he had stopped
performing before that.

It remains immensively popular to be "unpolitical" and leaving
maintenance of once's personal conscience and ethics to soulless
mechanisms ultimately driven by collective individual greed.

While I readily agree that this list is not really topical to political
discussions, I consider the proud abdictation of political
responsibility a political statement, and actually one that runs counter
to several reasons Linux has managed to grow in relevance enough to
warrant this list.

Sorry for the noise.

It turns out that while the only general-purpose operating system I
employ in the "production" of my music is GNU/Linux, the music (and
other audio output) itself does not really convey any message related to
Linux.  The most relevant is likely when I give instructive videos/talks
about my manner of music production but those aren't music as such at
all.

It seems that the request about "Linux-made music" has different
purposes for different people: some want to see what can be done when
using Linux (or GNU/Linux) as your general-purpose operating system,
some when you use it for as many purposes in music production as
feasible, some are more interested in listening to music from people
feeling aligned in their creative thinking with Linux as a system of
choice.

Interesting.

-- 
David Kastrup


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