audio opensource_audio Pirates (absolutely no coincidence to the recently released feature film---my cd concept preceded the film by at least a year or more and anyway has far more bite I gar-on-tee) has been discified. The artwork, guitar licks, found sound permutations and dark sarcasm are alone worth the price of the CD. At least I think so. But then....Irony is our friend.... This is the third in a series of sound collage, satirical oriented material. This time the emphasis is more on the political aspect of western culture. As Michael Franti has said, âhypocrisy is the greatest luxury.â Most of us are soaking in it. Howard Zinn called the America âthe united states of amnesia.â The historical awareness of most Americans is abysmally shallow, and what does exist is usually in part or wholly inaccurate. This cd is about the painfully stupid insistence of the media that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and that we are free from sin, and that we have a lawfully elected president, that we live in a âdemocracy.â Truly we are run by pirates, and these are not the smartest pirates, either. A pirate would steal an election and then run a de facto government, and then proceed to make war on manufactured adversaries, commit genocideâ¦.and sleep good at night. Watch as your rights erode away, as these ersatz fascists take over. We are all accessories to murder, to mass murder. How many killings did my tax dollars fund? Pirates of the CarobâBe-In signifies how we put a ânew ageâ face on what would otherwise appear as a rapacious succubus. Be here now, rejoice in thy killings, in the removal of thy rights, have a latte or an espresso, enjoy the clothes on your back which are made by the poor and exploited peoples in third world countries. I see newspeak changing language, co-opting the argot of the sixties and using it for commercial purposes. For the purposes of spin. The type of spin doctoring currently practiced in the media far outshines (very shiny dung, however) any propaganda system ever created. Joseph Goebells couldnât have done better. heavyconfetti; album; Pirates; carob; CD; 2005; norelpref heavyconfetti http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ HeavyconfettiPiratesOfTheCarob-be-in ferpleron@norelpref.com 2011-09-04 17:35:58 2011-09-04 17:42:44