Ruminations and Reindeer Games

 Lester righted himself.  On the national news night before last, Lester Holt opened his broadcast with the statement, "Gas prices are the highest they have been in seven years."  (not thirty like he said previously)  Since Facebook news reporting has devolved.  The intimacy and immediacy of the internet has usurped television, radio, and to an extent film.  Without realizing, but with Roger Ailes' Fox News as a model, social media posts have become our news.  This has posed a serious threat to broadcast news.  (not that it has been all that popular anyway)  How many Americans watch the television news at six?  The millennial generation was reared with social media, and streaming has become the communication of choice.  Wireless internet technology has pushed this trend.  Wireless communications are America's overt economy.  It is sad.  Traditional American habits slowly have been dismantled by an unregulated, antagonist, power seeking rogue.  Facebook wants to rebrand it "Meta."  Time/Warner successfully rebranded itself "Spectrum," and a few years later we have forgotten who Time/Warner is.  Our traditional news sources have failed to keep us informed, or rather they don't have the revenue to do their jobs.  Television and radio stations are expensive, and once it was advertising that paid the bills.  Now Google is paying the bills, and FB signed on selling online advertising in an unregulated forum.  January 6th could be the amalgam of these disparate tenets of modern American society congealing in a civil protest gone wrong.  Unfortunately the internet must be regulated like television and radio, but deregulation has become the American way.  We have allowed the internet her adolescence, and she has proven to be a more pleasing and easy way to shop.  Shopping from home on the internet is almost immediate gratification, and brick and mortar stores cannot keep up.  They cannot keep up, because what has become a communist/socialist methodology has proven its value.  Without a crystal clear mission statement, ideology, and philosophy American Capitalism is untenable.  Without people and freedom, it is not possible.  Someone is trying to kill the people, but unlike science fiction plot lines I don't think A.I. is going to evolve and take the place of man.  It may be fun to speculate, but it won't happen.  All of this aside I want to talk about music.  Music no longer is much to America, because people and freedom also are necessary.  Our opportunity to create rich, pleasing, humanistic music has been quelled by a proliferation of environmental pollution.  Our addiction to the second box, the PC, has sealed this fate.  The lure of digital music has proven too strong for youth with empty pockets.  The flaw of this product is far reaching.  Digital music necessarily only is a shadow of its original counterpart.  Human produced musical sound, whether from a recording studio or a garage is democratic, human, and liberating.  It is a metaphor for the American way.  Digital music is a shallow icon.  Digital music does not represent these necessary components.  Imagine sounds coming from a minute hard disc as compared with sounds coming from an organic, feeling, living, and thinking organism.  Algorithms can try to model human life, but they will fail.  When we begin to realize the beauty and integrity of a wooden handcrafted violin as opposed to a plastic comb, we will understand.  Digital music is a vague and inhuman representation of our souls.  As such was have lost touch with them.  Science is indispensable explaining human life, and yet quackery is the new normal.  When Capitalism fails braced with Christianity, thieves and beggars thrive spewing outright lies.  There are tangible reasons why the human vessel is powerful, but when you deny its attributes in favor of quackery all will perish.  It is easy to summarize this fall, and I can do it with a selfish metaphor.  If you live in the internet on a wireless device, you do not have to battle these demons.  It is easier.  To hold onto human reality we must fight.  America is at war, and each day we rise from sleep we must hit the ring fighting.  Simply I only want to make human music in my garage.  I won't use a PC.  I won't use the internet.  I won't use wireless technology.  I will use electricity, mechanics, and acoustics.  For these processes I need air, wire, wood, and metal.  For most of humanity these things have sufficed.  They will continue to suffice when we realize the limitations of the cyber realm.  The "Meta" realm.  It may be fun to speculate in science fiction, but it will not serve the human race.  What has served the human race since her inception by God will continue to serve the human race.  How has quackery infringed upon my freedoms?  I am in my garage, and I am restoring a vintage instrument.  It is made of wood, metal, and other organic compounds.  For it to operate in all of its beauty, simply it needs to resonate.  It needs to vibrate openly and freely, unfettered from the constrictions of man.  Yet this process severely is impeded.  This simple premise of unfettered resonance has become the ultimate challenge of today.  Quackery seeks to quash our ability to resonate.  It wants to oppress our spirit, our ideas, and our feelings.  It would rather us seek substitute anodynes in the internet.  It infinitely is more challenging to live in this world than in a PC, because the earth needs tending.  It is dependent on man for its upkeep.  If man were to cease to exist, could and would the Earth sustain?  I think the answer is yes, except when fire rains down from the heavens and rises from the depths of the oceans.  This is what is prophesied in the Bible with the second coming of Jesus Christ.  Those who accept Christ will be saved, and the rest will be left to fight in this fiery inferno until the end of the world.  I want my Rhodes piano to resonate.  I want its tine and tone bars to vibrate freely with the energy of the universe and transform my soul with its great healing power.  Instead this vibration is tamped down each day by the shallow processes of quackery.  My spiritual freedom, my right to resonate freely within my own precepts is infringed upon by corporate America and the military industrial complex.  The fighting machine has chosen to use the tenets of humanity to arm itself.  It sits ominously lurking on the battlefield, listening and waiting to strike.  To escape its blow I must be quiet.  I cannot invigorate my soul with human resonance, because this resonance now is targeted as the enemy.  We have become so desperate and so lazy, we would rather watch the fight on closed circuit television.  We police with cameras on poles, sensors in the field, and satellites in the sky.  We are too lazy to extemporize the fight in humanity.  We are so shallow sons-of-bitches.