God Comes to Washington?

 When you are dealing with music, there is no substitution for aural sound.  America has modified our perception of music, and it has not been a good thing.  News stories are popping up about people wanting to leave America and specific states.  Tim Walz has deployed the National Guard in his state.  In essence Donald Trump has ignited a war which necessarily is between the states and Washington, DC.  If we were to tally how many laws Donald Trump has broken only during his second term, and recognized how many unconstitutional Presidential actions he has attempted, he is akin to a war criminal.  All ready he is a convicted felon.  We have a convicted felon acting as the President of the United States.  If we try to understand the Trump Administration as a whole by their appearances and actions, it would seem we have elected a juvenile lot of kids to govern the United States.  What does this suggest?  Donald Trump is nearly 80 years old, and many Americans who live this long have Alzheimer's Disease, develop dementia, or have chronic health issues that inhibit their thinking.  Those who do live into their nineties often are celebrities or those with the economic means to ensure their continued health as they age.  What should the Trump Administration and cabinet suggest to the people?  Saturday Night Live does a good impersonation, and it's their job.  The late night, live, comedy show is satirical and often parodies politics.  Trump's Administration is ripe for the picking, but so were other presidential administrations.  Media as a whole embraces disfunction, because it is ripe for commercial exploitation.   Comedy in particular needs material.  When your governing body not only is dysfunctional but entertaining, much of the comedians work is done.  That is not true of the governance of a nation.  America never has had this particular experience before.  I am no historian, but the history books never have documented an improvisatory, Vaudeville-type, comedic troupe governing the United States.  Television today is a watered down minstrel show.  Vaudeville is way too skilled to represent this lot of posers.  What should the Trump Administration suggest to the American people?  First these people are not adults.  They are children.  It's like they never have had the familial experiences that promote growth, intelligence, wisdom, and maturity.  These experiences often to not grow in the family unit alone.  They must be augmented by social situations of which the most important is church.  I did not intend to preach today, and I will not go as far as saying that the Trump Administration lacks spiritual capability.  We can and should characterize the Trump family and administration by their actions, because I do believe a man is what he does, not what he says.  Trump says a lot.  He has done a lot.  What do we see his administration do that suggests they are capable of leading the most powerful nation in the world?  The most blaring omission from his faction is empathy.  After decades of study of the Nazi regime, empathy was named as the one thing of which Nazis were not capable.  They could not foster empathy for their fellow man.  This one simple precept is akin to human spirituality, and most human spirituality acknowledges and often worships a higher being.  Different cultures have different deities, but at the end of the day most of these things are metaphors for God.  The sun, the sea, the earth, and fire are all righteous elements without which humans could not survive.  It stands to reason certain cultures may choose to see these as gods.  In God's Ten Commandments specifically state we should not worship a graven image.  Washington's weakness, their plight, and their ensuing and continuing failure is lack of God.  They have not been saved, so their behaviors merely are superficial attempts to gain temporary and immediate gratification.  Without a deeper, far reaching, philosophical, and intellectual perspective, human existence will be nothing other than cavemen trying to survive.  How is it possible that one of Earth's most enlightened societies, the Ancient Greeks, existed before the birth of Jesus?  The answer is that at a certain point Satan was released on Earth to run amuck and tempt man.  What has ensued is the work of the devil, and the only solution to the devil's work is the acceptance of God as our savior.  We need God to save us, and we must ask for his help.  It has been prophesied that God will return to the Earth, and those who have accepted Him will be transported to a new planet including the dead.  The rest will be left to battle each other in hell fire's flames as the Earth is destroyed.  If you don't believe in a Higher Being, then none of this will matter to you.  If you do, like Donald Trump, you will see yourself having fun playing poker with the devil in hell.  Rest assured it will not be like that.  It is punishment, and perhaps the spoiled brats running Washington never have experience the true pain of punishment.  Multiply that pain times eternity and you have grievous consequences for your actions today on Earth. 

It's Never Too Late to Do the Right Thing

 The entire world has been turned upside down by one deranged American President.  The majority knows that Congress is unlikely to impeach Donald Trump a third time, unless the Democrats win the Senate in the mid term elections.  If they do manage to bring Articles of Impeachment, it is unlikely MAGA will remove the President.  Most people will agree that he needs to be removed.  If J.D Vance was as intelligent as he would like for you to believe, this would be his moment.  This could be his shining moment in history.  Why?  He could orchestrate the removal of the President, but he would have to do an about face and do the right thing.  He would have to rebuke Donald Trump's extreme agenda and begin to care about America and her people.  He could become a real old school politician.  That phrase innately has a negative connotation, but J.D.Vance could restore hope, integrity, and virtue to the American Presidency.  It has become obvious Congress no longer is capable of this, and perhaps age has something to do with it.  J.D. Vance is a young man and an Ohioan.  I lived in Cowtown for ten years.  Ohio is a reputable state and people are intelligent and informed, more than most states.  The coercion by the Alt Right of every Republican is heinous, but it is not too late.  It is too late for Lindsey Graham.  J.D. Vance could break with this anarchy, imperialism, and tyranny and restore faith in the office of the President of the United States.  He could embrace democracy, rule by the people, and the Constitution.  He could become the shining star of Washington, if he chose to do it.  It would mean he would have to grow up.  He would have to find God.  He would forget about himself and dedicate himself to others like historical world figures.  Gandhi.  Mother Teresa.  Winston Churchill.  JFK.  He could aspire to something more than the anarchy that has ensued with Agent Orange.  He could redeem himself, and he could save the country.  Those are tall accolades and certainly are better than the fate of Mike Pence.  The pursuit of excellence always is of value, and it is better than the cabinet of Donald Trump. 

The Necessary "Upgrade"

 I am having to write this blog entry on a 2007 Macbook 3.1.  (That is eighteen years old!)  My Macbook Pro late 2011 is in the shop having its Magsafe charger repaired.  Not so quick!  It is 2026, and I am trying to repair a computer that was manufactured in mid 2011.  That means the Macbook Pro also is almost fourteen years old, thereabouts.  These are older machines, but they still operate fine.  There is no need to "upgrade," because the software I use runs on these respective operating systems, Mountain Lion, and Mavericks.  The Macbook 3.1 came from Mac Warehouse, and to begin with it was a dog.  While the price always is cheaper than a new Mac, and never have I bought a new Mac, because I can't afford it, sometimes you get a clunker.  This little polycarbon computer came to life with a software upgrade.  Mac 10.6.8 is Snow Leopard, and when I installed it perhaps a year later, every glitch and bug disappeared, and it began to run smoothly.  It has been working ever since, and this is 2026.  Because browsers now are out-of-date and hardware configurations no longer are supported, it does not get support from the internet.  Some websites come up in Firefox, but mostly this little computer will do what I still need it to do.  What is that?  It is an Editor/Librarian for synthesizer patches by MOTU's Unisyn.  I have coveted DX-7 patches saved on this computer.  That is why I kept it.  It sat for several years not plugged in and charging its battery, but when I fetched it and opened the lid is turned on.  I charged the battery, and here I sit typing on it like I did for several years working on cruise ships.  Why did I upgrade?  I upgraded because my home recording system on a PowerMac with Nubus and an accelerator card failed.  What happened?  The battery exploded inside.  It was time.  I got a Macbook Pro aluminum and used it in clamshell mode to run my new home recording and MIDI studio.  It worked for several years, but because I bought this computer used off eBay its graphic card failed.  It was a an AMD Radeon.  Boo!  It was a known issue as was the issue with my original iBook laptop.  The mother board would flex, and one particular solder joint would separate.  I spent almost $500.00 trying to get this computer fixed, and the Apple Store could not do it.  They put in a new hard drive and still the dreaded black screen.  They didn't tell me it was a known issue.  This last time I was more thorough in my choice.  Affordamac back then was a different company.  It was Charlie McCormick Computers in California, and they were an excellent Mac re-seller.  All three of my computers came from them, an iMac for my mother, a Mac Pro for my new studio, and eventually another Macbook Pro for me.  It would not be in the shop had not the Magsafe 1 charging port arced through the air causing a dead short.  It fried both sides of the charger, the jack in the computer and on the charger.  Here's the thing.  Trying to repair a computer manufactured in 2011 today in 2026 is going to have caveats.  The DC board the repairman put it differed slightly from the original.  It requires a full 19 volts rather than 18.5.  After disassembling the computer and removing the motherboard, repairing the DC rails and a fuse, still it would not charge the new battery.  Little did I know this was purposeful.  It has become a common practice to make it difficult to repair older equipment, because the manufacturer wants you to buy something new, even if you don't need it.  I don't need it, and the new offerings on Mac laptops do not serve my needs.  For one they don't have USB or Firewire ports  Are these obsolete?  The answer is "Of course not."  How can USB be obsolete?  It's all about the adapters.  They just changed the adapters to make you think you need something else.  I had two choices with my 2011 Macbook Pro.  With the newer DC board, no longer would the battery charge with my old chargers.  Eventually he was able to get it to charge but with a more powerful 140 watt brick; that brick is USB-3, and uses Thunderbolt plugs.  You also need a Thunderbolt to Magsafe 1 adapter.  Eventually they got that together and proved to me the computer had been repaired, but I would need this new charger and adapter.  In the meantime he found the old jack in a used surplus computer and offered it to me.  I had to assure myself that using a charger rated at fifty-five watts higher than what my Mac required would not damage it.  As it turns out Apple is good about these kinds of things.  It uses an intelligent power system that only draws the amount of electricity it needs.  There is no fear of overheating the computer or burning out the charging port.  It only will pull 85 watts from the brick.  An Apple Macbook Pro will also accept 220 volts AC from a European source and step down the voltage.  Cheers about that!  I like to blog, but I never knew the convenience and ergonomics of a laptop aids the blogging process.  You get to sit in a chair or on the couch with the computer in your lap.  It is more relaxed than sitting in an office chair staring at a large monitor.  So here I am on a 2007 Macbook 3.1.  I have my morning jolt coffee drink, which is a double shot of espresso and a strong cup of coffee.  I used to drink these on the ship, and it would give you enough energy to tackle the day's challenges, which were great on Princess.  In a nutshell I can go retro, put the original charging board back in the computer, and count the days and weeks until it fails again.  Or I can leave the upgraded board/port in there and buy the newer adapter.  What would you do? 

A Badgering El Presidente

 Welcome to a weaponized Department of Justice.  The federal Justice Department is not the first arm of the Trump Organization to be weaponized.  Badgering of the American people has been going on a long time.  It has been full fledged ethnic cleansing, and Covid was the strongest tool.  The AIDS outbreak is a long way back, but I remember it.  You should watch the film "And the Band Played On."  HIV was created in a lab by those snobs who wanted the homosexual bath houses closed in San Francisco.  It was the first chapter of domestic biological warfare in America.  Covid was the second chapter, and the same people also created it in a lab.  Most of America is in denial not able to believe or understand such a thing could happen.  Watch the film "V."  It also outlines the outbreak of Covid 19.  When your own government begins to attack the people is when your well-armed militia should awake.  Judges have all ready ruled that the National Guard cannot be deployed in American cities, but it is on a case by case basis.  Because there have been filed lawsuits and rulings by judges, the Trump administration deployed two thousand thugs from the Department of Homeland Security to Minnesota.  A judge again has ruled they cannot arrest peaceful protestors.  Two thousand armed thugs of unbeknownst origin working for the extreme right.  Thus "criminal investigations" into mayors and governors, anyone who bucks Trump's Nazi tendencies, are ensuing.  The latest is the chairman of the Federal Reserve.  Not everyone has a favorable opinion of this entity, but independence from political bias is a part of the philosophy of the Constitution.  It is sickening what America is subject to.  Our greatness, our accomplishments, and our strengths all have been subjugated by a deranged, nihilistic, sociopathic dictator.  The demarcation of peaceful protesting has been pushed to the envelope.  Martial law inadvertently has been declared in Minnesota.  Will it defuse, or will the American people have to rise up and defend themselves?  The problem is, those who have been preparing for this, "Doomsday Preppers," have been enlisted by the wrong side.  They have been coerced, brainwashed, and sweet-talked by the suave, lying, stinky real estate mogul who inherited daddy's money.  Whenever I blog, as menial is this is, an unknown inconsequential citizen from nowhere and criticize the Trump administration, all hell rains down on me.  It has forced me to man up, get tough, and live the life of the thousands of soldiers living around me.  If they can prepare for war, so can the citizenry.  I feel better about it.  My feelings about being a soldier rather than an artist?  Disappointed, depressed, and disconnected.  So be it. 

American Storm Troopers, Nazis, and Goons

 Donald Trump lied to the American people, but Presidents lying to us is nothing new.  It is the extent to which they lie that is the issue.  Our President has pardoned a bevy of criminals including many of those involved in the January 6th attacks on the Capital.  His zealot cronies who carried out much of this anarchy have been freed, and it stands to reason these are the same men who now are employed as Immigration, Customs, and Enforcement agents.  Agents is the wrong word.  The majority of people working in the Trump Administration are unqualified, sycophantic, outsiders with no professional training in any arena.  Why would these "agents" be wearing masks to disguise their identities?  It is because they in most likelihood are Proud Boys.  They are not trained agents of any kind.  They are hired muscle carrying out the orders of their mob boss.  Never have I in my lifetime seen any atrocity as great as an American citizen being murdered in cold blood while sitting in her car.  It was not that long ago that police were murdering black men, and being black was a reason for fear for your life.  The tables have shifted slightly, and now the focus has become illegal aliens, of which there are millions in America.  Many are doing the work that lazy Americans will not do such as picking vegetables, digging ditches, and delivering groceries.  When the crack down came this reality hit home.  Many of the things that keep prices in check in America shifted and inflation kicked in.  After the Covid outbreak prices all ready were elevated, because of the lack of labor and unavailability of products.  This crack down has not helped.  Worse this violent campaign against foreigners has an evil origin.  It is not based in lawful constitutional justice.  It is nothing more than an American Gestapo attacking people they do not like.  This must have been the case in Minnesota where a zealot masquerading as a trained government agent filmed himself murdering a lesbian in cold blood in front of her wife.  It is clear if one watches the video and listens to the audio that Renee Nicole Good was not trying to run down an ICE agent.  She was trying to escape the threat of death.  In the most ironic example of Donald Trump's hypocrisy with J.D Vance shouting she was a terrorist, they obliged.  They killed her anyway.  Obviously they felt this threat, although her wife continued to talk smack to these masked marauders.  What would you do if several SUVs full of armed masked men tried to apprehend you and your family while you driving to the store?  Would we be compliant?  Masked men?  It would be a wise and prudent response to doubt the legitimacy of such a goon squad.  Because this altercation resulted in the death of an undeserving citizen, we cannot believe that our lives are safe within any proximity to such a bogus passe.  First we were doubting the legitimacy of law enforcement officers who were killing black men and women.  Now we are confronted with an illegal gang of thugs targeting people of ethnic origins.  Everyone in America is of ethnic origins, because we all are immigrants.  Because of the inefficiency and ineptitude of Congress, immigration and its reform have not come to fruition.  Donald Trump has brought the level of the United States to tribal warring consciously trying to pit Americans and citizens of other nations against one another.  I can think of no other more disruptive and violent President in my lifetime.  Donald Trump is a convicted felon, and now he, J.D. Vance, and Pete Hegseth are war criminals.  How much longer will America let this murderous charade continue?  A well armed militia is the last line of defense against a tyrannous government, and now is the time for Americans to rise up, organize, and arm themselves. 

Stone Cold J.D. Vance - the Nazi Fascist Who Hates Dikes

My Macbook Pro is in the shop, because its Magsafe charging port arced in a pretty blue spark and fried the connector.  Sunday night is not a good time in my house.  I tried working on and playing our Hammond A-100 organ, and it had all kinds of problems to the point I could not record it.  The perfect definition of its symptoms was not surprising, but it is surprising Google's AI assisted search is being forthright.  I have caught it twice in gaslighting and misdirecting, but for the most part Google's search results have become in depth, authoritative, and useful.  When I Googled these symptoms, the result was obvious, but I never had seen it written out and documented.  It's basic Physics and the property of waves and electricity.  For ten years this has not existed like Global Warming.  To be concise a large-scale, high current "switching event" from heavy duty industrial equipment was the result.  Always I have known this, but people think I am crazy when I suggest trains can be harmful to human health.  To be more specific the electrical and electromagnetic refuse of AC traction technology.  There are certain times when the dinosaurs mate in Fayettenam, and usually it is on a Sunday evening.  There is rail activity all the time, but now add in military supply trains.  The first time I heard this phenomenon was when a CSX-T diesel electric consist was on the Aberdeen and Rockfish tracks near Berean Church pulling a military train out of the ammo dump.  Those tracks are gone now as is the Patriot Missile site.  They are barracks now.  The second time was at Festival Park during a symphony concert.  If you don't know about the Taos Hum, then you won't understand.  When AC locomotives go slow, they require different frequencies of alternating current which is produced by an insulated gate bipolar transistor.  It in essence is a "switching power supply" on a massive scale.  Like impedance when a large amount of electricity is produced and stored, it has certain properties that are not always positive.  Electricity is like music, and their waves behave similarly.  My Hammond A-100 organ exhibits specific negative characteristics when AC locomotives are in close proximity and at plentiful numbers.  I am going to quote Google AI.  Tamp down the AC power supply.  A large electrical disturbance causes significant, temporary voltage sags or brownouts in the power grid as the system attempts to cope with the sudden, high current draw or imbalance.  This "tamping down" is a voltage fluctuation where the supply voltage drops significantly, causing the connected devices to receive insufficient power.  Arc through the air.  High voltage surgest from a powerful external source, like a lightning strike or an intentional EMP, ca create strong electric fields that exceed the dielectric strength of air, causing electricity to jump between conductors as an arc.  This is a visual manifestation of a severe over-voltage condition.  Subdue the amplitude of sound in speakers.  The "dirty" power (voltage sags, harmonic distortion, noise) from the compromised AC supply directly affects the audio equipment's amplifier and the power supply.  Voltage Dips.  If the voltage dips below the level the power supply can regulate, and amplifier cannot produce its full output, leading to reduced volume or "subdued amplitude."  EMF Interference.  The arcing and high current flow generate strong electromagnetic fields (EMI) that can be picked up by the speaker wires and audio circuitry, introducing noise and distortion that compromises the audio signal.  These describe the conditions in my den on Sunday night.  Now my Macbook Pro is in the shop with a fried charging port and a blown fuse on the motherboard.  Our current administration would say, "If you had to kill a few people to save the masses, wouldn't you do it?"  ICE killed that woman in cold blood in her car, and she turned the front wheels trying to avoid the officer standing in front of her car when trying to drive off.  Away from him.  J.D. Vance is a liar and a fascist.  If Congress impeaches and remove The Donald, this man would become President.  That is a stone cold deterrent. 

The Bionic Ears

 Any time I mention the word Fauci, all hell rains down upon me.  Where is Fauci?  Inquiring minds want to know.  Fauci was given billions of dollars by the now dead Vice President emeritus torturer.  Water boarding you say?  Shipped off to Gitmo in the Torture Taxi to be physically humiliated by U.S. troops.  Naked in a pile with dogs?  There is no positive connotation of the word Fauci.  Instead concocted viruses come to mind killing hundreds of thousands of people.  All hell rains down on me when I mention this name.  Where is Fauci?  If anyone had the power to murder you with an invisible pathogen, it would be Fauci.  It is common knowledge.  He was hired for this task when Bush Jr. was president by Dick Cheney.  Endeavors of such in in depth nature simply do no disappear.  Instead they are used covertly to control and sometimes kill the population.  Special Operations are the forces tasked with this.  Their headquarters is at Fort Bragg.  Always they have trained there, but only in the last two decades did BRAC moves all of these commands to Fort Bragg.  It has not been a good thing.  Christmas in Fayettenam is sucking fumes.  The reason why it is 70 degrees is because of aircraft exhaust.  Travel.  The entire fortnight of Christmas was an accumulation of carbon emissions from aircraft.  Sucking fumes.  When they began building skyscrapers in New York city, the local people felt there was a disconnect.  They never saw the dwellers in the sky.  Today was never see the fliers in the sky.  The airlines just suck our air and replace it with noxious carbon emissions just above the tree line.  It is a disgrace, and it is murderous.  It is the perfect metaphor for the Trump administration. 

Christmas Reactive Arthritis and Tinnitus in DaVille

There are communities that have invested in gun shot detection systems.  They are "sensors" which triangulate the high decibel sound of gunshots.  After Fayetteville spent over a million dollars on this service, it was proven that its existence didn't help law enforcement.  Local people are capable of calling in such events, and they do.  Like Ross McNutt's aerial surveillance system, while having 360 degree cameras mounted to the bottom of a Cessna Grand Caravan, who is going to have the time to view and study these hours and hours of footage?  The answer is no one.  If we add Fort Bragg to the stew, and apparently every new recruit wants to be in intelligence, it would seem every participant of the Deep State or the military is addicted to a screen and a controller.  It is more fun piloting a drone and blowing up targets from afar than actually being in the field.  Boots on the ground we call it.  With this new found preoccupation on ISR, a not-so-clever reworking of the acronym IRS (which is not held in high esteem with American citizens)  Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance has become the new focus of the military.  Big Tech has made this field a shiny, entertaining, fun vocation.  It is of no consequence that America's security against our enemies is of more concern, and that is no accomplished playing video games.  It is a distraction, and it has not helped us.  The continual "training" at Fort Bragg learning these systems makes the local communities Guinea pigs.  Would it not be helpful to use these military skills for local law enforcement?  We know that they do.  With the Robin Sage test occurring four times a year, who better is hypothetical enemy?  Using expensive Apache helicopters for such a purpose is a gray area. I know they do it, because I see them often.  They would say they are training, but with the amount of violent crime that has escalated since Donald Trump's two presidencies, they are catching criminals somehow.  It is not by having active duty police in patrol cars on the beat.  They are nonexistent in DaVille.  Rarely does one ever see a police cruiser.  Instead we see Apache helicopters.  There are drones.  There are soldiers training in the field listening to every sound made.  With four railroads copulating in DaVille, military training, and the Shot Spotter network, there is little privacy left.  No one seems to notice that since 9/11, Bush's Patriot Act, and Trump's authoritarian tendencies there is no part of our lives that is not public.  Add to this triangulating GPS in cellphones, the United States Space Force, and Elon Musk's manufactured network of spy satellites for the federal government, no part of our lives is unnoticed.  This surveillance has reached a point of critical mass.  While it has been in existence for decades, the NSA is a fairly new phenomenon.  9/11 was the impetus for eaves dropping on Americans, under the guise of searching for terrorists.  It has not stopped.  Because internet commerce has usurped brick and mortar commerce, GOOGLE and Facebook are anal retentive about watching and studying your interests online.  This translates to unwanted surveillance.  Lockheed Martin and other large defense corporations now are using every method available to spy on everyone.  Since Bill Clinton legalized these particular frequencies of the electromagnetic spectrum, and microwave wireless transmission has burgeoned, no technology is immune from military exploitation.  This today includes SOUND.  They use sound in the field in combination with high powered phased array radar to triangulate enemy shells.  Sound.  Today your home is filled with unwanted EMF radiation in the form of neighborhood WiFi networks.  They have become 5G and are encroaching on the millimeter wave spectrum, a dangerous portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.  Businesses do not tell you this.  After discovering our house's electrical system is not grounded, and with all of this airborne RF and AC, I had to invest in power filters for all of my electronic musical equipment.  I spent hundreds of dollars on Furman power conditioners installing them in multiple places in the house.  Because your musical instrument cords become antenna, I had to replace them as well with heavy duty shielded cables.  This improved my audio for the most part, but did not completely render my home an appropriate place for electronic music production.  The overlying issue now is aberrant infrasound.  I have unwanted, low frequency, mostly inaudible sound proliferating in my home.  This comes from a variety of sources including commercial jets from the Fayetteville Regional Airport, military aircraft, and freight and passenger rail.  The problem has become the intermodulation of this infrasound as it mixes into an unwieldy stew.  The simple result is the typical stereo image of an audio signal in a recording studio gets pushed to one side from this massive pressure in the air.  When I watch a DVD and listen to its sound through four speakers in four corners of the room, I only hear sound out of one speaker.  The infrasound has the strength to overcome the meager audio coming from a home stereo system.  Likewise if I try to record music, the same phenomenon occurs.  There is another issue happening that is beginning to garner attention.  It is the age of frailty of our electrical grid.  When AC traction locomotives rumble through downtown Fayetteville, the local power grid is taxed.  There is a reason for this, and it is completely logical and proven in the field of physics.  The immense amount of low frequency alternating current originating in one of these locomotives escapes onto the local power grid taxing the system.  It tamps down what is supposed to be available for consumer use in their homes and businesses.  Things get dim.  The idea that aberrant sound, electricity, and radiation are propagating in our personal, supposed to be, private living spaces is disgruntling.  I feel it has become unconstitutional.  It makes it difficult for me to pursue my chosen vocation of electronic music production.  There are stretches of time, like now, that audible music in the house creates disturbance to the human psyche.  This negates the entire purpose of music.  Who gets to make this decision?  The powers at be obviously want us to continue to live on our iPhones and in our earbuds.  The plural, communal, societal process of music fellowship has been lost, at least around here.