Chroma Starlight

I think a lot of this might be coming out of wildly inappropriate attempts to imprison culture with nationalism and unhumanitarian attempts to restrict and control culture implemented at a government policy level. It's "to serve the artists," except when you examine it, at least according to some independent operators, in reality it actually seems to exist to serve the industry itself rather than promote cultural progress, and it serves this interest for an authority that has become dissociated from reality and imagines itself in charge of everything, just everything. Now, please consider the folllowing: And right away we have flaming red flags. "national treatment?" "foreign artists?" What is this, 1938? Woodrow Wilson just telegrammed and he wants his ideological delusions back with amortized interest. And look at that, all of this stems from the fact that US Congress gave the broadcast industry free license not to compensate artists, and so that's really the true source of the problem, and now it's being used to pry apart culture all across the Internet? Typical, but completely illegitimate, isn't it. This is their concept, apparently: utilize "nations" and borders to divide our human culture into tons of little local sheep herds, each more easily intimidated, controlled, and confused so that local parochial legal systems can be used to further functionally degrade, violate, and dissociate Universal Human Rights and culture (and ultimately, the human mind on this Earth) in a slightly different way in each formerly free place of the world. Doing it like this means that there is no global solution to a universal problem--- this is regressive, this is an attack on modernism, this is an attack on ancient cultural norms, too. It's the apparent fever dream of "executive culture" that they still seem to think that they're in charge of anything in this world that has been screaming "no means no" so very loudly. It's like they've gone deaf. They need to be put out to pasture, but it seems they believe they've accomplished some fait accompli. So ultimately, it's the same old crap in new guise, isn't it? Men with no claim to anything write new rules for a world order that has nothing to do with reality, it's actually a system of oppression which they style as existing to protect artists, and this is in fact superficially true; there are artists who have been served by this system. What it actually protects is the establishment, and it's the wrong establishment for cultural progress. This is the establishment that shoves the master tapes into a warehouse and then burns it down for the insurance money, that's what they think of artists. This rotten industry organization uses government authority to stifle innovation, place ideas and inspiration that comes from beyond into private ownership for the profit of the same people who would perpetuate unending darkness. The difference is, now we all can see it and now we all understand what is at stake. This is a spiritual and cultural war being waged by oligarchy for ???? in the name of a new millennia of feudalism on this Earth, whereas in fact we are supposed to be a twenty-first century spacefaring metaspecies already. Who do these clowns think they're kidding? You want artists to get paid? Why not work on the income inequity in the United States. Pay people a living wage, make them be prosperous, and of course they'll have more money to support the arts and you won't need to conspire to divide and tax global culture until it's oppressed into non-existence for all but your oligarchical buddies. Minimum wage in the United States is $7.25/hr. That means that in order to buy a new album on LP (average US$30), the average person here has to work for four hours, but really five hours when you consider the Federal and State income taxes. But of course, you can't afford music, you have to pay for the social services you bought with your tax dollars because they embezzled it all to the military-industrial complex and foreign partners who are in fact the enemies of our founding political and spiritual philosophy, here. That's the world they've created for us to rot in austerity or to be surrounded by such rot as we have been all our lives in the United States. How in world would you be able to operate in this 21st century the way they're trying to imprison it? You can't. That's why we need to leave this planet and land on one that's free and isn't slaughtering all our lives like a cow or a sheep. We're rather be an Ox or a goat. No more of this nonsense, it's the 21st century.