nived23's Blog

You're right on. Music has taken a dive since the infusion of the rap mentality on youth. It has turned the creative juices to anger and resentment, resulting in what you have described in your excellent blog. Of course, this is in line with the breakdown in morality in this country spawned by liberals.

Band: Consolidated
Year: 1991
Album: Friendly Fascism
Song Title: Music has No Meaning

Today in the west, of the many crisis we face, critical is the nature of the culture industry's monopolistic control over our expressive domain. The interest’s that control the state have effectively neutralized any mode of public expression that, in the past, we had found empowering. Along this course the nature of music itself has become twisted, altered, distorted, to suit the needs of capital. If we want music to contain any positive relevance to us again we must take it back until then it ain't jack hit it, THAT music has no meaning... that music has no value... that music has no power... Our tastes have become so standardized and regulated that we no longer make any decisions for ourselves. The culture industry does all this for us and we've become a nation of blindly accepting consumers latching on to meaningless terms like, alternative, progressive, industrial, techno, rap, house - We're promised liberation but all we get is empty distraction, in our society music is just a measure of forced consumption. Until we change the social conditions under which music is made: THAT music has no meaning... that music has no value... that music has no power...

What can we do about it?

In the Nineties as big business and big government realize that they needn’t demonstrate any longer the intimidation and violent suppression of past authoritarian states they prove conclusively that friendly fascism clearly exists in this society and the rulers of corporate America have manufacture