/satanic/ - The Hole in the Wall

On a jog earlier today, the radio was flipped on. I decided to check out some classical. I enjoy classic music, the piano and violin especially. Usually, youtube or tunein radio is used in place of the mobile radio. Today, I made an exception.

It is incredible the degree to which programming takes place. From the qualifying of classicism as amazing, the attempted personalization of the speaker to the listener, the generation of a certain level of quality appropriated to ways of speech and organization, all intermingled in a such a way that I was left asking myself, "what the fuck is this shit?" It was as though I had been listening to nothing but scripted dialogue and a ridiculous fantasy waved into existence through sophistic role-playing.

It has been years since I flipped on the radio. There is a love/hate relationship with the television that discourages me from often viewing stations or even taking advantage of cable. I can see a lot of beneficial and informational power within television, but its monopolization has decreased creativity and stiffens the free expression of the people. With strict regulations and high costs, the ability for commons to arise and perpetuate their own message on televisions is strongly reduced. Essentially, it is corporate control which wraps its hands around the discourse of (inter-)national conversation.

The internet is an important tool necessary to reducing the centrality of power. It is for this reason why the internet has seen such a vicious war of control vested in senatorial and global conventions of dialogue. The radio can be pretty good but all of that talking, all of that "normal" discourse- it seemed so silly, so foreign. It was opera and there I was, aware of the massive amounts of ridiculous make-up and their highly archaic clothing, all the while they continued their swaying and silly posturing, as though all was normal.

And, perhaps, they are willing participants within the normalization of classicism.