This week I will offer a little change of pace (and not merely because of a perceived lack of Ps).
The other day (actually evening), I attended a “popular music” concert.
How do I know it was “popular” music? By paying attention to the extremely quasi-woke Boomer radio station I regularly listen to (which is also sort of a German equivalent to the BBC in terms of propaganda — see also “Irrational Media Maintains BBC Propaganda Was Merely Edit, Error, … Epic Fail !! 😉“). I tell my friends that the reason I listen to this radio station is because in the Hinterland where I live, there seems to be a high risk of flooding, earthquakes and/or nuclear war … and therefore I need to stay informed in case any such event should happen (and I also like listening to the local weather report a lot).
One of the songs Dota Kehr sang is titled “Im Springbrunnen” [1]. I guess the song is supposed to be ridiculous or funny (or maybe both), but I particularly like it because in the beginning she raises the question “what do I want?” and she denies wanting a few “popular” things and then concludes that she wants the thing mentioned in the title. I believe wants are a very serious matter (which is why I maintain http://Wants.Blog 😉 ). In her song, Dota seems to contradict her own declarations (without acknowledging it) and therefore she also “walks the line”, a fine-tuned balancing act traversing between rationality and irrationality.
What we want is (in my humble opinion) not simply a matter of personal preferences. For example, I have often pointed out that do-gooders need the “others” they aim to help (this seems [to me] to be somewhat analagous to the way narcissists need victims they can abuse narcissistically). Indeed: Wants are anything but simple, which I also try to describe a little (more) on the homepage of Wants.Blog.
People usually appear incognizant of the so-called “platforms” they acknowledge (this is actually a recurring theme of this blog — see e.g. “Interesting Things“, “If Google is the Pope of the Internet, Then Who Are You & I?” and also the many articles tagged with “Human Brain Conditioner“). Whether radio stations or stock markets (see also “More or Less is Better“) or websites (like Google or whatever [other] AI scheme is “en vogue” at the moment) or the stage (that artists like Dota Kehr climb up onto), all such platforms are socially sanctioned popularity contests.
Ironically, Dota also seems to remain incognizant of her own quasi-popularity, putting on airs of unbridled naiveté. As a winner, she shouts out her own truths toward her audiences, treating the consumers of her apparently insightful morsels of wisdom as … dutifully devoted followers (see also “There’s a Sucker Born Every Minute“).
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