Compromise in Sound, Compromise in Humanity

The Arts are important. The Arts are important because they rise above the superficial level of pop culture and guide the youth of America. That is why the Arts are more important than professional or amateur sports. Any school that eliminates the Arts from their curriculum is branding themselves a derelict sub-directive of the traditional educational system. Like has occurred many times in American history sub-directives have prevailed over traditional humanity. In most cases they are driven and represented by monetary greed. While once the Congress of the United States was looked upon as a millionaires club, this tenant of big business still seeks to strangle the life and intelligence out of our youth. In doing so this contingency may earn more capital on the short-term, but when their meager hearts fail who will be left to run the country? With conservatives so bent on preserving exclusive and affluent lifestyles, a void has been created that is not capable of taking over the reins of power. It can be construed this “head in the sand” approach to life comes from fear. It must be recognized the history of the United States is littered with Puritanism. Viewed in a perspective of religious freedom from England, it is appropriate a newly emerging America provided a safe harbor for these aspiring “free worshippers.” That is one positive thing America has stood for over the years. Those puritan influences on an emerging Progressive society can be seen as weaknesses. Conserving ideals that have come to be anachronistic surely will be the death of the country. At some point a decision must be made to push the human condition forward, and that cannot mean allowing the youth of America to bury their heads in the sand. It is probable they would cease from “hiding” from real life if the opportunities of “real’ life were offered to them. This is a needed and necessary right of passage to adulthood of which many of our youth are being deprived. If “Old Money” remains so selfish that it cannot relent, when will the torch be passed to the next generation? If we continue to neglect our public schools, dismantle America’s traditional job infrastructure, and patronize our youth with cell phones and X Boxes then surely in a few short years leadership and money will dissolve. Luckily we finally are seeing the concrete effects of this selfish greedy behavior in the housing market. Whether or not is will translate into another Great Depression is yet to be seen. A sigh of relief can be heard as God’s system of Checks and Balances arrows a reality check to what must be representative of America’s old trusts and corporate monopolies. The Progressive movement as represented by Civil Rights briefly emerged under Abraham Lincoln to be forced back into submission for seventy years. America can be seen as a continued fight between Old Money and progressive movements which seek to ensure the well-being and longevity of America’s citizens no matter what their economic status. Similarly programs enacted by Franklin Delano Roosevelt with his New Deal were ground breaking policies that sought to help the America people out of the economic throes of the Great Depression of the l930’s. Wouldn’t policies of that sort be more appropriate now than tax cuts for the rich? One easily can look to the political and social optimism of the l960’s Hippie drug culture for a model. There is nothing to look forward to with Conservatism. Basking in one’s own money is nothing but a black hole. Humanity is meant to experiment, grow, evolve, and find happiness through social practices within the scope of the human being. That Arts represent this whether if be early Folk Rock music, Rock ‘n’ Roll, Hip Hop, or Jazz. That is why these forms of music are crucial to the future of America. They provide a model from history, a history that is rich and tangible for life in America. Media and government’s attempts to disguise, “spin,” and gloss over reality are nothing but callous efforts of self greed. Not allowing the spirit of this music to endure is what is hindering the congealing of America’s mainstream. Preconceived games shows concocted by self-serving and self-empowered youths are nothing but cock blocks to the real sentiments of Americans that need to be allowed to breathe and enlighten. The medium of television has become compromised, but the medium of the internet has not yet expanded enough to carry that full responsibility. How much longer will we have to wait for the proper media vehicle? FM Radio is compromised. Novice entrepreneurs cannot start their own satellite radio stations. It seems more feasible as in the movie Fight Club to level the playing field. Why not eliminate electronics completely and force Americans to truly experience human behavior again for the first time in decades? Movies would begin to rely upon reality rather than Render Man. Music would begin to rely upon musicality rather than MIDI. Information would be shielded from the threat of Big Brother allowing ink to permanently seal the fate of knowledge and history. All of these things may not have been so adversely effected IF one specific art form had not been so compromised by the MP3. While various art forms possess the ability to move appreciators, none of them can be as effective as the art of music. Why is that? Visual art has no tactile ability. Unless you reach out and touch the canvas, marble, or metal it is impossible to receive a tangible tactile message. Music uses our atmosphere to communicate its message. It is both heard and felt empowering music to lead nations. The MP3 effectively eliminated the “feeling” component of sound, because its creation is the antithesis of what musicians seek in good music. Compressing band width destroys music’s ability to move the emotions, because sound waves are what accomplish this task. Otoacoustic is the phenomenon of sound being represented by radio waves. When the ears hear live music, a mechanism in the inner ears translates that sound into electrical energy which is sent to the brain. The brain is sophisticated enough to decode the electrical message and respond to it as sound. The emergence of a deluge of electromagnetic waves in the atmostphere is troublesome for several reasons. It allows the transmission of aural sound through radio waves. This has been proven and patented. A device translates sound into the appropriate frequency radio waves for the brain to hear. The radio waves are transmitted onto the skin. As pollution is reaching a highpoint in the United States, now we as Americans are faced with the problem of having virtual symphonies of disperate and cacophonous sound from radio waves landing on our bodies. The dementia and confusion that has ensued easily can be documented by the chronology of offending diseases that have emerged in the last two decades. No one wants to recognize the sources. Tinnitus is caused by low frequency sound waves. There are people that have “sound repercussions” to radio frequency energy in their ears. They can actually hear radio waves by the sounds that are produced in their ears by the increased electrical energy. Synonymously phospenes are visual effects created in the eyes by increased electrical activity in the retina. Human emotion and its component understanding are at a low, because we as human beings are being bombarded with extraneous and unmeaningful stimulus via sound and electricity. We spend the majority of our time trying to interpret and respond to bullshit. This is why Americans have been driven to seclusion in their homes seeking shelter from the array of noise and electricity. In desperation we attempt to replace naturally occurring human emotion/electricity and sound with artificially produced media. The current regime producing this material is not up to the task of sustaining humanities’ needs. Only artists are capable of that, and their traditional means of communication has been blocked. Waves after wave of bullshit is pelting the American people via sound and electricity and we are the worse for it.