Pop Music, The Hollow Egg of America

I am at an unusual point in my life.  I am somewhat of a caregiver.  Not completely, but now I know how it feels.  I cook, and oddly enough I enjoy it.  Cooking, despite all odds and except when done poorly and without thought, always is a triumph of the human spirit.  I guess the phrase, "You are what you eat" really is true.  Music on the other hand now offers me nothing.  Ironically it has served me my entire life, yet now I cannot remember why ever I pursued music.  A large part of it was selfishness.  I wanted to be successful.  I wanted a mate.  I wanted to be popular.  Largely it worked, but I can't remember any of it anymore.  I can't remember performing music in my youth, and because I have matured into an adult now I pursue music for different reasons.  As you age you become so familiar with yourself that you tire of yourself.  I am not interesting to me anymore.  Therefore the gift or rather voice of music I have possessed my entire life has become silent.  There has to be a reason for you to pursue music.  It is a need to express emotion and thought.  You have to have something to say.  Currently I don't.  In the year 2014 with our current socioeconomic and political systems, I have no desire to say anything because it will be met with deaf ears.  What I have said during my life time has been rendered anachronistic.  I am out-of-date.  The voice of jazz has changed again.  I observed this first hand when the British Invasion and Elvis Presley ushered in Rock 'n' Roll in America.  Traditional swing could not help but be effected by the new rhythm.  Slowly over time old school swing became anachronistic, and the aggressive shuffle of the new music found itself the new foundation of jazz music.  Rock 'n' Roll cribbed jazz with nary a tilt of the hat.  The sentences in jazz music became subsidiary to a mindless droning quarter note time feel.  The actual conversation, the content of jazz, became the whore of what was intended to be a musical dance form.  Always I have said instead of disrespecting America's only true art form, why not just do something else?  The cruise industry is notorious for this disrespect, and I have dealt with it in some capacity since beginning in the cruise industry in 2002.  I have come to terms with this callous and often homosexual disrespect of American jazz.  I have learned that the expression in real jazz music does not represent the aesthetic of homosexuality.  I have tried to separate music from this choice, but I cannot.  It is part of the cause of the disrespect of jazz.  Jazz has been exploited because it is there.  It is a large body of work that is well known as America's unique offering to the field of music.  Just as I feel one's sexuality should not be a platform for one's existence, I feel jazz music deserves greater respect than being used as a whore.  That is exactly what it is today, but in a different way than Rock 'n' Rolls influence.  Now it is being exploited as pop music.  Modern jazz musicians including iconic figures are now playing jazz with a different rhythmic feel.  They are using the feel and thus technique of realizing pop.  Over time I have come to understand that this is a conscious effort.  Modern jazz musicians explicitly know that old school jazz fails with the greater public.  Why is this?  It is because we have grown ignorant and immature as a populace.  This also has been a conscious effort.  It became a conscious effort during George W.' presidency with or without his knowledge.  Almost all of Saul Alinsky's predictions have been implemented with the education and respect of America's youth first on the chopping block.  Systematically and purposely the government has undermined public education and began a campaign to exploit money from America's youth.  They also have become whores.  It seems America is anxious to fuck anything and everything she can for monetary gain.  Posthumously George Carlin still speaks of this ill in his comedy sketches.  He talks often of being screwed by the man or Uncle Sam.  In my short lifetime I had managed to avoid this sentiment until now.  Now I feel it, and I feel it most deeply in the exploitation of my chosen vocation, music, specifically jazz music.  It infuriates me that no living person today seems to be aware that the jazz music being marketed today is fake.  It is pop disguised as jazz.  It is using the language of jazz for a different purpose than traditional jazz.  Traditional jazz like many American traditions was serious.  It was adult.  It dealt with real everyday issues of the American situation.  It dealt with civil rights.  It dealt with persecution.  It dealt with slavery possibly at its root element.  Slavery.  Slavery is not a happy subject especially today.  Certainly it is not a sentiment that openly will be embraced by the music industry.  The same could be said for the blues.  It is not often we hear blues music anymore, and yet one of the most prolific and successful rock bands of all time, Led Zeppelin, used the feeling of the blues prominently in their music.  The feeling of pop music for a while was an enigma to me, but then I realized what it was.  It is vanity.  It is a vanity that openly and happily exploits anything and everything it possibly can from the body of American music.  It solely is used for personal gain.  Selfishly discarding the content, value, and talent of artistic music it purports to be the same, but it is not.  It is an eggshell that masquerades as the egg.  It ignores the processes necessary for producing the egg.  It is a hollow egg, but it seems few people today including our miseducated and brainwashed youth take the time to confront the egg itself.  They will be disappointed, because there is nothing there.  We have become a fascist country.  It only was a matter of time before the influences of Communism made their way across our great oceans. It is not a very long leap across the Bering Straight.  Unsettlingly Vladimir Putin has returned to the Presidency in Russia.  Many are predicting a new cold war.  Fascism has entered America the same way it entered Italy, through fascist leaders.  The timeline can be traced back  to the George W. Bush presidency.  During this time warmongering became a main tenant of American existence.  Not only did war sanction privileged presidential executive powers, it fueled Haliburton.  Both our president and vice-president instigated fascism in American politics.  We have yet to recover, but their message bellows on with the pointless widespread criticism of Barak Obama.  American politics like American pop music is a hollow eggshell.  There no longer is an egg, and it seems to be wanted.  The question must be asked how are we going to survive as a nation with no philosophy?  How are we to survive with no unifying principles upon which to live our lives?  It will devolve into anarchy and the government will be overthrown.  I guess it was just a matter of time before European historical precedents came to America.  First we must get rid of pop music, the propaganda of fascism.  Only then do we have a chance.