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2024.05.20 08:29 Ur_Anemone ‘As A Straight Man, I Treasure My Female Friendships’
 | …People who otherwise search far and wide in the quest for varied experiences – spending a fortune on travel and restaurants, painstakingly seeking out books and films and music – nonetheless think it’s right to omit half the population from their friendship group. submitted by Ur_Anemone to afterAWDTSG [link] [comments] Why do many people seem to prefer monocultural friend cliques? It is a blessing to live at a time when everyone can be friends with everyone. If I want to drink too many pints, swap memes and moan about cricket, I have no shortage of blokes for that. To judge by how some of my male friends hang out, they would prefer to live in a medieval theocracy where they would meet women only in prescribed spaces. Aside from all the obvious qualities – being funny, clever, good at parties, etc – women are typically better at conversation. They also do vital work in calling me out on my nonsense. Men are pathetically indulgent of one another. In the name of masculine solidarity they will excuse any amount of bad behaviour, from minor social infractions to outright criminality. This can be relaxing, but sometimes it’s good to get a more honest review… My wife is sometimes asked whether she minds my mixed friendship group. She says she is glad of it, and thinks everyone should try it. Previous girlfriends were not always as understanding – they resented me seeing my friends, I resented the resentments... None of which is to say being friends with a woman is the same as a man. It would be disingenuous to say I think of every woman in my life like a sister or aunt. But the world is full of people – men, women, old and young – who one might in theory sleep with, but manage not to. The arguments against straight men having female friends boil down to a Mike Pence world view, in which the only woman any man should be friends with, outside of his family, is his partner. In this bizarre universe, all other women are infernal temptresses who should be encountered only in well-lit public spaces and with at least one chaperone on hand to step in should the male urges become overwhelming. Who wants to live like that? Without women, you only have half a social life. |
2024.05.20 08:24 North_Onyx Her voice was taken deliberately
Yea this might be wild or out of pocket to say but after reading about her the last several years since her dissappearance, I genuinely believe Kate Covington's music and singing is some of the best in the history of all music and I think some sort of higher power, through malice, took her ability to sing the way she did. Someone or something knew that she had one of the best voices in the world and put a stop to her before the rest of the world could hear her. It's a God damn shame that some of the best things in life get taken away constantly it just makes you wonder if forces unknown are at play with the intent to cause evil.
Tinfoil theory rant over.
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Tinfoil theory rant over.
2024.05.20 08:04 pien__ Should I drop my minor?
Sorry in advance if this is a bit nonsensical. It’s late and I’m in a bit of a panic.
I’m an English major going for a music technology minor. I declared the minor way before my major (I went from undeclared to entertainment engineering to English; the minor was declared between my undeclared and engineering phase), so I have 3 classes left for the minor and about a year’s worth left for the major. As it is now, I’m set to graduate spring 2025.
The problem is that I thought I’d failed one of my minor’s classes last semester and figured, well, I won’t have time to retake this class, so I should lessen my workload for next year by dropping the minor altogether. I swapped the two MT classes I was going to take in the fall for some gen ed classes I was initially planning to take over the summer. I just found out I actually passed this class and I don’t actually need to give up the minor.
In theory, I could still graduate spring 2025, but I’d need to overload a semester. Again, I’m an English major, and I genuinely enjoy the classes in both my major and minor, so I don’t mind this. My last semester was 18 credits (the maximum amount students can take), in fact, so I do know I can handle it. I don’t know my chances of getting approved for an overload, though—my semester grades are all over the place. I have mostly As and Bs, though.
Also, minors don’t show up on diplomas, and I don’t know the chances of me actually getting a job in the field because of my personality. The professors say there’s a need for more people in the field, but I’m not a very appealing person and it’s extremely difficult for me to talk to people and so I have no idea how I’d even break in. Mind you it’s been two years of classes and I’ve practically no contacts. I just don’t know if it’d be worth it.
On the other hand, the rumors of jobless English majors scare me, so if my lucky streak keeps going then maybe the chances of me getting a music technology job might not be totally obsolete.
Doing an extra semester is off the table. Everyone around me expects me to graduate spring 2025, and because of some other personal issues I’d rather not get into (as well as my own ego tbh), I just can’t spare the time for another semester.
There’s also the option of going back a few years later to finish my music technology studies since the department is also trying to add a major, but, again, my big fat ego might just shut me down. I’ve noticed music majors/minors are always so competitive and condescending and the age inferiority complex has always been a debilitating problem for me.
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I’m an English major going for a music technology minor. I declared the minor way before my major (I went from undeclared to entertainment engineering to English; the minor was declared between my undeclared and engineering phase), so I have 3 classes left for the minor and about a year’s worth left for the major. As it is now, I’m set to graduate spring 2025.
The problem is that I thought I’d failed one of my minor’s classes last semester and figured, well, I won’t have time to retake this class, so I should lessen my workload for next year by dropping the minor altogether. I swapped the two MT classes I was going to take in the fall for some gen ed classes I was initially planning to take over the summer. I just found out I actually passed this class and I don’t actually need to give up the minor.
In theory, I could still graduate spring 2025, but I’d need to overload a semester. Again, I’m an English major, and I genuinely enjoy the classes in both my major and minor, so I don’t mind this. My last semester was 18 credits (the maximum amount students can take), in fact, so I do know I can handle it. I don’t know my chances of getting approved for an overload, though—my semester grades are all over the place. I have mostly As and Bs, though.
Also, minors don’t show up on diplomas, and I don’t know the chances of me actually getting a job in the field because of my personality. The professors say there’s a need for more people in the field, but I’m not a very appealing person and it’s extremely difficult for me to talk to people and so I have no idea how I’d even break in. Mind you it’s been two years of classes and I’ve practically no contacts. I just don’t know if it’d be worth it.
On the other hand, the rumors of jobless English majors scare me, so if my lucky streak keeps going then maybe the chances of me getting a music technology job might not be totally obsolete.
Doing an extra semester is off the table. Everyone around me expects me to graduate spring 2025, and because of some other personal issues I’d rather not get into (as well as my own ego tbh), I just can’t spare the time for another semester.
There’s also the option of going back a few years later to finish my music technology studies since the department is also trying to add a major, but, again, my big fat ego might just shut me down. I’ve noticed music majors/minors are always so competitive and condescending and the age inferiority complex has always been a debilitating problem for me.
2024.05.20 07:50 DeathToEscape Did my first jam today, need some help
Hi violinist. A little background on me before I dive too deep into it; I'm a 22m violinist who has been playing on-and-off for about 11 years now. I started in a classical orchestra and until today; that was basically my only type of exposure with the instrument. As such, my ability to read and play sheet music is good, but I'm severely lacking in my ability to improvise and come up with something off the dome. As far as theory goes, I can vaguely recall the circle of fifths to myself (I know how to play in every key but I sometimes forget the names of them) and I know different finger patterns but I can't really play a scale if somebody told me to play a ___ scale. So my theory is quite limited as well.
I recently got invited to a jam session by a friend, and I ended up taking them up on the offer. I knew it was gonna be hard for me, but I toughened up and just went with it. The way it was structured was that we'd kinda just freeball it. Someone would start off with a rhythm, usually the drummer, and then everyone else was trying to fit their puzzle piece in. The electric guitar player next to me was extremely well versed in theory, and he pretty much spent most of our session guiding me in what would sound good for me to play.
I truly did have fun, but it was so overwhelming to know so little. I don't even know where to start with my solo practice in order to prepare myself to play with a group again. I'm hoping the next time I come to play with them that I don't have to crutch on him so hard and I can start to formulate things on my own. I've spent a while scouring the internet for how to improvise on the violin but all of the advice feels so general; I really feel like I need way more specific ideas to hone in on.
If anyone's been in this situation as a violinist before or started off as an improv violinist with some nuggets of knowledges to share; I'm all ears. Above all else, I'm looking for things I can study/practice on my own time to come back more prepared. Thanks!
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I recently got invited to a jam session by a friend, and I ended up taking them up on the offer. I knew it was gonna be hard for me, but I toughened up and just went with it. The way it was structured was that we'd kinda just freeball it. Someone would start off with a rhythm, usually the drummer, and then everyone else was trying to fit their puzzle piece in. The electric guitar player next to me was extremely well versed in theory, and he pretty much spent most of our session guiding me in what would sound good for me to play.
I truly did have fun, but it was so overwhelming to know so little. I don't even know where to start with my solo practice in order to prepare myself to play with a group again. I'm hoping the next time I come to play with them that I don't have to crutch on him so hard and I can start to formulate things on my own. I've spent a while scouring the internet for how to improvise on the violin but all of the advice feels so general; I really feel like I need way more specific ideas to hone in on.
If anyone's been in this situation as a violinist before or started off as an improv violinist with some nuggets of knowledges to share; I'm all ears. Above all else, I'm looking for things I can study/practice on my own time to come back more prepared. Thanks!
2024.05.20 07:30 rdk67 Spring Day 61: Hot Cicada Sunday
Today! Today issued forth these existential moments, when the absence of human activity is the defining feature of the landscape – not because there is a disaster or a change of heart about the human project but because, well, I don’t know, so I grab my backpack, which stands for aspects of the soul that only sprout in alternate realities – and charge into the day to find out. By noon, the heat is like a flickering color in the mind – unseasonably early for this sort of highlight, and then I remember the cicadas are appearing, which might explain the sudden interest by the rest of the universe. Not halfway down the block, I’m startled by the first cicada of the season – near the top of the tallest tree by the building that houses the renowned music program. The cicada makes music all by itself, and it is like a siren made of clicks, a drumstick pulled across bones.
This is just the beginning of the historical emergence, and the location where I live is one of the nationally recognized hot spots. The people, I don’t believe, have evacuated, but they certainly aren’t rubbing their hands over the trembling earth, waiting for bulging eyes and knobby legs to drag a dirt-stained cicada out of the ground, then off to a place to molt. The molting process is brimming with the sort of metaphor we associate with heaven – something below ground for its whole remembered life, save for a brief time after it hatches, falls out of a tree and into the grass, crawls down into the soil to find a tasty dandelion root to suck on. That original body, on the brightest day of the year, goes searching for a hard vertical surface to cling to, like the side of the tree it was feeding on, then escapes out of its body through the hind end of its own skull.
The heat seems to have its own sense of choice in evidence. While I’m standing there, listening for more clicks, the heat generates a crackling sensation across my shoulders, like patches of my skin are sparkling below my shirt. The clouds – more of those cumulonimbus dreams-come-true – are simultaneously isles and aisles – two bulging eyes – both work, so whichever, either one a somewhat brawny pronunciation, like the words have to walk with a slight bow about the legs, because of the pronounced thigh muscles. Just as I turn to walk away from the lone cicada at the top of the school of music’s tallest tree, the clicking begins again. I stop and turn back to the tree – it stops. I turn to walk, and the clicking sounds again. Maybe the cicada brood will be so large, the movie we call reality has given them final cut, at least for the next few months, so I carry on.
That cicada was a female – they make that clicking sound by rubbing their wings together, and I picture the males all hearing the clicking as a variation of – could some big strong male crawl on over and open this jar for me? The male call is the more familiar whooping siren, which is made with a spasmodic diaphragm on their abdomens – Jerry Lee Lewis at his most raucous – though I believe he did play piano with his feet, so there are dissimilarities, too. The big winners will be the birds and fish, which are looking forward to extra animal protein wherever they look for the next couple of months, second nesting seasons all but in the bag. At the height of his fame, Jerry Lee famously wedded his 13-year-old cousin. Myra Williams was her name, and she said later, after the divorce, she was always the adult in the relationship. They stayed married for 13 years.
Scientists speculate that cicada broods follow such irregular cycles – 7 years, 13 years, 17 years – because they are prime numbers and therefore difficult for predators to sync to over time in the performance of their own boom and bust cycles. I like this theory, though I wonder why the rest of the animal kingdom hasn’t likewise worked the numbers – like cicadas launched themselves into a probabilistic deep-space orbit inside the mind of nature, and never looked back. I picture Neil Armstrong on the ladder of the lunar module, freezing in place, mission command busy on the radio but no reply from Neil until, all wet and new, he bursts forth through the back of his space helmet, as naked as the day he was born, gets busy inflating his wing casings, as mission control cheers, and the scientists all light cigarettes to relieve the stress, maybe hand out cigars.
The heat is a measure of energy in the system – to the extent it also accounts for human absence, we stay huddled inside on hot days like today due to chronic overabundance – nature is giving us too much – which is also true for many allergies and fevers – but with the overabundance of energy, you can find relief through the judicious application of even more energy, which option I used to always forego on general principle – I want to feel the reality of days overabundant as surely as days where the molecules are all optimally excited. These days, I’m in charge of a mid-sized HVAC operation, and thus, feel part of my body living inside a factory of probability that stretches around the world. We humans, on days like today, take it as a given that temperature-controlled climates are part of the deal, that molecules should be in optimal states of excitement.
Which, with self-similarity across scale in mind, might suggest nature treat our excitability with similar regard. Oh to live the life of temperate climes, where fairness and passion are concerned! I’m on my way to the library to borrow a book about love and rage, written by a Buddhist, who examines the roll of anger in transformation. I have no truck with my fellow human sufferers – literally no anger at all – but with human systems? Disembodied intelligences? Those aspects of the hyperform that privilege torment and indifference? When it climbs to a high enough part of the tree to be heard, I can indeed hear my anger. What’s that? A false reality precipitates false authority? Yet knowing this, hyperforms readily believe wealth confers merit. The exaggerated accumulation of capital is an existential disease assuaged with the delusion of personal success.
A block from the library, I come upon two boys playing in a pile of sand beside a garden. The one boy seems to be trying to burrow inside it, and the other is battering the sand with the flat side of a child-sized metal shovel. He has the wrong shovel for the job, a fact I choose to keep to myself, especially since the one really is trying to thwack the tall pile just as hard as he can. The sort of thing kids do in a spirit of curiosity – what happens to the world when the force of one’s anger is applied to a giant pile of sand? Perhaps the urge to use force for no reason is the human behavior we end up with when ambient energy gets so overabundant. This is what life seems to be – the planet’s novel approach to dissipating heat. We are much more than that, of course, and fortunately, the kids have plenty of time and energy to prove it. Their parents tell them to stop.
When a cicada molts, the effect is more than just a body crawling out of a body – for instance, in the moments before this happens, the cicada is visibly squirming inside its former self, which is permanently clinging to the side of a tree, and all the while, it is feeling the pronounced effect of gravity for the first time in its life, not to mention terrestrial life in the trees, where the sap flows freely and sunshine dances on those giant globular eyes for the first time. Emerging cicadas first do a backbend, then hang upside down by their hind ends, letting the legs, wings and abdomen inflate and adjust to the atmospheric pressure, which pressure gracefully draws the body back to an upright posture. They stay that way, letting their wings inflate, flatten out, stiffen. Veins in the wings were veins, were flesh, before the flesh became the will to fly, a means of saying hello.
Nearer the library, I catch sight of someone squatting in the subsurface terrace of the Unitarian-Universalist peace church – I spot a bedroll and backpack, a forty-ounce can of something cold to drink on such a sweltering day. The guy is leaning against the brick wall, staring into space, and I picture him being the pile of sand from the block before – the one repeatedly hit over the head with the flat side of a shovel. At the library, they’re resetting the furniture after a musical performance. I don’t really know who it was – I just see my favorite librarian thanking someone with a violin case, the sort of hardened case they used to carry machine guns around in, and for a moment I hear the rat-a-tat-tat that stands for the sound of anger overcoming us – but then it becomes that highest cicada, back at the top of her tree, rubbing her wings, building railroads.
The heat on the walk home – neighborhoods still evacuated – is like a drunken horse I’m forced to ride. I can feel my body swaying from side to side a little more than usual, so I try to imagine some other time – for instance, when our bodies will be able to take the heat on a day like today and do something with it – cranial stimulation or micromachines to repair the body or even just a way for the body to stay cool without installing an HVAC system. A crow stops me cold when I hear it imitating the sound of a cicada – it doesn’t have the tone exactly right, but it’s doing the clicks, and I know this is true of crows – they acquire new elements of language from what they hear, and the crows must be hearing female cicadas calling out to the others. What a witness! I call up to the crow – or maybe it’s just got a cicada in its beak. In instant reply, the crow shrieks.
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This is just the beginning of the historical emergence, and the location where I live is one of the nationally recognized hot spots. The people, I don’t believe, have evacuated, but they certainly aren’t rubbing their hands over the trembling earth, waiting for bulging eyes and knobby legs to drag a dirt-stained cicada out of the ground, then off to a place to molt. The molting process is brimming with the sort of metaphor we associate with heaven – something below ground for its whole remembered life, save for a brief time after it hatches, falls out of a tree and into the grass, crawls down into the soil to find a tasty dandelion root to suck on. That original body, on the brightest day of the year, goes searching for a hard vertical surface to cling to, like the side of the tree it was feeding on, then escapes out of its body through the hind end of its own skull.
The heat seems to have its own sense of choice in evidence. While I’m standing there, listening for more clicks, the heat generates a crackling sensation across my shoulders, like patches of my skin are sparkling below my shirt. The clouds – more of those cumulonimbus dreams-come-true – are simultaneously isles and aisles – two bulging eyes – both work, so whichever, either one a somewhat brawny pronunciation, like the words have to walk with a slight bow about the legs, because of the pronounced thigh muscles. Just as I turn to walk away from the lone cicada at the top of the school of music’s tallest tree, the clicking begins again. I stop and turn back to the tree – it stops. I turn to walk, and the clicking sounds again. Maybe the cicada brood will be so large, the movie we call reality has given them final cut, at least for the next few months, so I carry on.
That cicada was a female – they make that clicking sound by rubbing their wings together, and I picture the males all hearing the clicking as a variation of – could some big strong male crawl on over and open this jar for me? The male call is the more familiar whooping siren, which is made with a spasmodic diaphragm on their abdomens – Jerry Lee Lewis at his most raucous – though I believe he did play piano with his feet, so there are dissimilarities, too. The big winners will be the birds and fish, which are looking forward to extra animal protein wherever they look for the next couple of months, second nesting seasons all but in the bag. At the height of his fame, Jerry Lee famously wedded his 13-year-old cousin. Myra Williams was her name, and she said later, after the divorce, she was always the adult in the relationship. They stayed married for 13 years.
Scientists speculate that cicada broods follow such irregular cycles – 7 years, 13 years, 17 years – because they are prime numbers and therefore difficult for predators to sync to over time in the performance of their own boom and bust cycles. I like this theory, though I wonder why the rest of the animal kingdom hasn’t likewise worked the numbers – like cicadas launched themselves into a probabilistic deep-space orbit inside the mind of nature, and never looked back. I picture Neil Armstrong on the ladder of the lunar module, freezing in place, mission command busy on the radio but no reply from Neil until, all wet and new, he bursts forth through the back of his space helmet, as naked as the day he was born, gets busy inflating his wing casings, as mission control cheers, and the scientists all light cigarettes to relieve the stress, maybe hand out cigars.
The heat is a measure of energy in the system – to the extent it also accounts for human absence, we stay huddled inside on hot days like today due to chronic overabundance – nature is giving us too much – which is also true for many allergies and fevers – but with the overabundance of energy, you can find relief through the judicious application of even more energy, which option I used to always forego on general principle – I want to feel the reality of days overabundant as surely as days where the molecules are all optimally excited. These days, I’m in charge of a mid-sized HVAC operation, and thus, feel part of my body living inside a factory of probability that stretches around the world. We humans, on days like today, take it as a given that temperature-controlled climates are part of the deal, that molecules should be in optimal states of excitement.
Which, with self-similarity across scale in mind, might suggest nature treat our excitability with similar regard. Oh to live the life of temperate climes, where fairness and passion are concerned! I’m on my way to the library to borrow a book about love and rage, written by a Buddhist, who examines the roll of anger in transformation. I have no truck with my fellow human sufferers – literally no anger at all – but with human systems? Disembodied intelligences? Those aspects of the hyperform that privilege torment and indifference? When it climbs to a high enough part of the tree to be heard, I can indeed hear my anger. What’s that? A false reality precipitates false authority? Yet knowing this, hyperforms readily believe wealth confers merit. The exaggerated accumulation of capital is an existential disease assuaged with the delusion of personal success.
A block from the library, I come upon two boys playing in a pile of sand beside a garden. The one boy seems to be trying to burrow inside it, and the other is battering the sand with the flat side of a child-sized metal shovel. He has the wrong shovel for the job, a fact I choose to keep to myself, especially since the one really is trying to thwack the tall pile just as hard as he can. The sort of thing kids do in a spirit of curiosity – what happens to the world when the force of one’s anger is applied to a giant pile of sand? Perhaps the urge to use force for no reason is the human behavior we end up with when ambient energy gets so overabundant. This is what life seems to be – the planet’s novel approach to dissipating heat. We are much more than that, of course, and fortunately, the kids have plenty of time and energy to prove it. Their parents tell them to stop.
When a cicada molts, the effect is more than just a body crawling out of a body – for instance, in the moments before this happens, the cicada is visibly squirming inside its former self, which is permanently clinging to the side of a tree, and all the while, it is feeling the pronounced effect of gravity for the first time in its life, not to mention terrestrial life in the trees, where the sap flows freely and sunshine dances on those giant globular eyes for the first time. Emerging cicadas first do a backbend, then hang upside down by their hind ends, letting the legs, wings and abdomen inflate and adjust to the atmospheric pressure, which pressure gracefully draws the body back to an upright posture. They stay that way, letting their wings inflate, flatten out, stiffen. Veins in the wings were veins, were flesh, before the flesh became the will to fly, a means of saying hello.
Nearer the library, I catch sight of someone squatting in the subsurface terrace of the Unitarian-Universalist peace church – I spot a bedroll and backpack, a forty-ounce can of something cold to drink on such a sweltering day. The guy is leaning against the brick wall, staring into space, and I picture him being the pile of sand from the block before – the one repeatedly hit over the head with the flat side of a shovel. At the library, they’re resetting the furniture after a musical performance. I don’t really know who it was – I just see my favorite librarian thanking someone with a violin case, the sort of hardened case they used to carry machine guns around in, and for a moment I hear the rat-a-tat-tat that stands for the sound of anger overcoming us – but then it becomes that highest cicada, back at the top of her tree, rubbing her wings, building railroads.
The heat on the walk home – neighborhoods still evacuated – is like a drunken horse I’m forced to ride. I can feel my body swaying from side to side a little more than usual, so I try to imagine some other time – for instance, when our bodies will be able to take the heat on a day like today and do something with it – cranial stimulation or micromachines to repair the body or even just a way for the body to stay cool without installing an HVAC system. A crow stops me cold when I hear it imitating the sound of a cicada – it doesn’t have the tone exactly right, but it’s doing the clicks, and I know this is true of crows – they acquire new elements of language from what they hear, and the crows must be hearing female cicadas calling out to the others. What a witness! I call up to the crow – or maybe it’s just got a cicada in its beak. In instant reply, the crow shrieks.
2024.05.20 07:12 geopolicraticus J. G. Fichte and a priori Providentialism
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
19 May 1762 – 29 January 1814J. G. Fichte and a priori Providentialism
Part of a Series on the Philosophy of History
Sunday 19 May 2024 is the 262nd anniversary of the birth of Johann Gottlieb Fichte (19 May 1762 – 29 January 1814), who was born in Rammenau, Saxony, then part of the Holy Roman Empire, on this day in 1762.
Fichte is often remembered in histories of philosophy as an immediate successor to Kant in the German idealist tradition. While still a young man Fichte wrote and anonymously published Attempt at a Critique of All Revelation. This was in 1792 when Fichte was 30 years old. Many believed that Kant had written this work, given Kant’s earlier critiques of pure reason, practical reason, and judgment, so when Kant denied authorship and identified Fichte as the actual author, Fichte experienced the philosophical equivalent of being an overnight sensation.
But Fichte’s life was an unsheltered as Kant’s life was sheltered. He was a born trouble-maker and was willing to touch the third rail of Enlightenment politics by writing and speaking openly about matters of religion, as revealed by his work on revelation. Fichte is sometimes called inflexible and rigid, though we could also say (a little more charitably) that he was principled and not inclined to compromise. Partly as a result of this temperament, Fichte became embroiled in a controversy in German intellectual life remembered as the Atheismusstriet, or Atheism Controversy.
During this controversy Friedrich Jacobi published an open letter against Fichte in which Jacobi coined the term “nihilism” to describe what he took to be Fichte’s position:
“Truly, my dear Fichte, I would not be vexed if you, or anyone else, were to call Chimerism the view I oppose to the Idealism that I chide for Nihilism. I have paraded my not-knowing in all my writings; in my non-knowledge I have prided myself so to be with knowledge, so perfectly and completely, that I am certainly allowed to be contemptuous of the mere doubter.—I have wrestled for truth with zeal and fervour since childhood as few others; as few others have I experienced my powerlessness—and my heart has grown tender for that—yea, very tender, my dear Fichte—and my voice so gentle! Just as I have deep compassion for myself, as human being, so I have it for others. I am patient without effort; but that I am truly patient without effort costs me a lot. The earth will be light above me—it won’t be long.”Nihilism was to go on to have quite a career as an idea after Jacobi’s letter. While for Jacobi, the nihilism he attributed to Fichte was the inevitable outcome of reason, nihilism did not remain centered on Jacobi’s critique of Kantian philosophy, but came to signify belief in nothing at all.
Fichte’s controversial stance created a problem for the authorities at the University of Jena, where Fichte was employed at the time. Fichte wouldn’t budge, and this was one of the episodes responsible for his reputation for inflexibility, so the University of Jena dismissed him in 1799. At this point, with little to his name and few prospects, Fichte walked from Jena to Berlin—Google Maps says it takes 55 hours to complete this walk—and eventually he became part of the philosophical scene in Berlin.
Fichte attempted, semi-successfully, to support himself with popular books and lectures. For a philosopher coming from a background of Kantian philosophy—the most technical philosophy of its day—this was a bold project, but he gamely attempted to bring his interpretation of Kantianism to the masses. One of the outcomes of this effort was Fichte’s short book The Vocation of Man (1800). Fichte’s academic work was riddled with jargon, but The Vocation of Man is written in plain language and was intended for a popular audience. However, it’s still a demanding philosophical argument. In it, Fichte articulated a conception of human destiny that is universalistic, rationalistic, teleological, and even infinitistic:
“Let us not ask of history if man, on the whole, have yet become purely moral. To a more extended, comprehensive, energetic freedom he has certainly attained; but hitherto it has been an almost necessary result of his position, that this freedom has been applied chiefly to evil purposes. Neither let us ask whether the aesthetic and intellectual culture of the ancient world, concentrated on a few points, may not have excelled in degree that of modern times! It might happen that we should receive a humiliating answer, and that in this respect the human race has not advanced, but rather seemed to retrograde, in its riper years. But let us ask of history at what period the existing culture has been most widely diffused, and distributed among the greatest number of individuals; and we shall doubtless find that from the beginning of history down to our own day, the few light-points of Civilization have spread themselves abroad from their centre, that one individual after another, and one nation after another, has been embraced within their circle, and that this wider outspread of culture is proceeding under our own eyes. And this is the first point to be attained in the endless path on which humanity must advance.”Notice that Fichte implies a distinction between two kinds of progress: there is progress toward the highest degree of excellence, and here humanity may have backslid, but there is also progress toward broadly distributed high culture, and here Fichte thinks that his time definitely surpassed previous history. Fichte also says that progress, by which he means moral progress, is an endless path, and we have already seen that it is possible for humanity to experience retrograde moral progress, so the pathway to man becoming purely moral, as Fichte sees it, is endless, it can incorporate reversals, and it can be striving to new heights or to wider diffusion.
This and many other passages point to the infinite perfectibility of man, which shows us the extent to which Fichte had imbibed the ideals of the French Revolution—or, we might say, he had imbibed the ideals of the French philosophers who were instrumental in laying the foundations of the French revolution, and were later arguably co-opted by the revolution, as in the case of Condorcet, who wrote this paean to the infinite perfectibility of man while on the run from the revolutionary gendarme. But the infinite perfectibility of man as Fichte imagines it is a teleology with a real history: things can go wrong, we can get sidetracked, we might pursue one form of moral excellence or another, and so on.
And Fichte also transmuted the French concept of the infinite perfectibility of man in the image of German idealism, producing a kind of philosophical spiritualism. Part of this transmutation of ideals came about because of the direction that Fichte saw the French revolution take as it developed. Many philosophers at the time initially supported the ideals of the French Revolution, but came to see it in a different light after the Terror and the Napoleonic Wars. Fichte as well.
Seeking to rally his countrymen after defeats inflicted by Napoleon, Fichte gave a series of public lectures later published as Addresses to the German Nation. This was more than a half century before the unification of Germany as a nation-state. In the twentieth century this work was savaged by George Santayana in his book Egotism in German Philosophy, which I mentioned in my episode on Wars and Rumors of Wars. Santayana called Fichte “an uncompromising puritan” and in Santayana’s fever dream of German expansionism he imagined Fichte as the source of it all:
“…Fichte gives us prophetic glimpses of an idealistic Germany conquering the world. The state does not aim at self-preservation, still less is it concerned to come to the aid of those members of the human family that lag behind the movement of the day. The dominion of unorganised physical force must be abolished by a force obedient to reason and spirit. True life consists in refashioning human relations after a model innate in the mind. The glorious destiny of Germany is to bring forth and establish the world anew. Natural freedom is a disgraceful thing, a mere medley of sensual and intellectual impulses without any principle of order. It is for the Germans to decide whether a providential progress exists by becoming themselves the providence that shall bring progress about, or whether on the contrary every higher thought is folly. If they should fail, history would never blame them, for in that case there would be no more history.”Many others also have seen Fichte’s work through the lens of the wars of their time, which were the world wars of the twentieth century, rather than through the lens of the wars of Fichte’s time, which were the Napoleonic Wars.
Fichte knew that he was putting his life on the line by publicly speaking out against the French, as he at one time referenced the fate of Johann Philipp Palm. Palm, a book seller, was connected to a pamphlet, Germany in Its Deep Humiliation (Deutschland in seiner tiefsten Erniedrigung), that angered Napoleon. Napoleon ordered his subordinates to try and execute Palm within twenty-four hours. Palm was tried on 26 August 1806 by a French military tribunal, found guilty, and shot within hours of the verdict. Four other book sellers also were tried were not executed. Fichte knew that the same thing could happen to him in publicly speaking out on behalf of the German people. We can see from incidents such as this that Fichte was in the thick of the history of his own time, sometimes riding the wave and sometimes making waves.
Roberta Picardi notes both the derivation and dependence of Fichte’s views from Kant, as well as Fichte’s divergence from Kant:
“Fichte explores the epistemic status and method of history with an aim which is clearly taken from Kant: the purpose of introducing a systematic and scientific method in the infinite field of the empiricism, of which history is a part, together with experimental physics. As we can read in The Characteristics of the Present Age he wants to obtain ‘a sure progress according to rule instead of an uncertain groping in the dark’ from history, i. e., instead of the ‘Herumptappen’ (this is the German word for ‘groping’) that in the second Preface to the Critique of Pure Reason Kant contrasts with the ‘secure path of a science’.”But the secure path of science isn’t always all that secure, given that there are multiple scientific pathways, and not all pathways lead to the same end. This is the distinction within Fichte’s philosophy of history noted by Angelica Nuzzo:
“Fichte builds his idea of a philosophy of history upon a paradoxical argument. He pushes to the extreme the claim of the bare factual nature of history as a realm of irrational, not-conceptual, and thoroughly contingent reality. Yet he also maintains that philosophical knowledge of history is possible—although neither as deductive, nor conceptual, nor genetic knowledge. Against the fictitious notion of historical Wahrscheinlichkeit (plausibility, probability), Fichte holds on to the notion of ‘historical truth’ and to its ‘logic.’ Despite its radically empirical character, history can be construed a priori.”Some of the flavor of Fichte’s a priori approach to history can be gained from his primary work on the philosophy of history Characteristics of the Present Age (Der Grundzüge des gegewärtigen Zeitalters, 1806), in which he decomposes history into Five Principal Epochs, based not on historical contingencies, but rather upon human destiny and moral development:
“…we endeavoured to pre-figure the whole Earthly Life of Man by a comprehension of its purpose;— to perceive why our Race had to begin its Existence here, and by this means to describe the whole present Life of humankind:—this is what we wished to do,—it was our first task. There are, according to this view, Five Principal Epochs of Earthly Life, each of which, although taking its rise in the life of the individual, must yet, in order to become an Epoch in the Life of the Race, gradually lay hold of and interpenetrate all Men; and to that end must endure throughout long periods of time, so that the great Whole of Life is spread out into Ages, which sometimes seem to cross, sometimes to run parallel with each other:—1st, The Epoch of the unlimited dominion of Reason as Instinct: —the State of Innocence of the Human Race. 2nd, The Epoch in which Reason as Instinct is changed into an external ruling Authority;—the Age of positive Systems of life and doctrine, which never go back to their ultimate foundations, and hence have no power to convince but on the contrary merely desire to compel, and which demand blind faith and unconditional obedience:—the State of progressive Sin. 3rd, The Epoch of Liberation,—directly from the external ruling Authority—indirectly from the power of Reason as Instinct, and generally from Reason in any form;—the Age of absolute indifference towards all truth, and of entire and unrestrained licentiousness:—the State of completed Sinfulness. 4th, The Epoch of Reason as Knowledge;—the Age in which Truth is looked upon as the highest, and loved before all other things:—the State of progressive Justification. 5th, The Epoch of Reason as Art;—the Age in which Humanity with more sure and unerring hand builds itself up into a fitting image and representative of Reason:—the State of completed Justification and Sanctification. Thus, the whole progress which, upon this view, Humanity makes here below, is only a retrogression to the point on which it stood at first, and has nothing in view save that return to its original condition. But Humanity must make this journey on its own feet; by its own strength it must bring itself back to that state in which it was once before without its own coöperation, and which, for that very purpose, it must first of all leave.”We can call Fichte’s Five Principal Epochs a “stadial” philosophy of history, since “stadial” refers to stages. In this passage we gain an appreciation of the necessity of the five stages of history as a developmental process that cannot be gotten around: there is no royal road to the end of the history.
In the Second Lecture from Fichte’s Some Lectures Concerning the Scholar’s Vocation, he makes explicit both the a priori developmental history of humanity and the utopian picture of the ultimate end of human development:
“…a very great man has said, life in the state is not one of man’s absolute aims. The state is, instead, only a means for establishing a perfect society, a means which exists only under specific circumstances. Like all those human institutions which are mere means, the state aims at abolishing itself. The goal of all government is to make government superfluous. Though the time has certainly not yet come, nor do I know how many myriads or myriads of myriads of years it may take (here we are not at all concerned with applicability in life, but only with justifying a speculative proposition), there will certainly be a point in the a priori foreordained career of the human species when all civic bonds will become superfluous.”The editor says in a footnote that the “great man” mentioned was probably an allusion to Kant’s Idea of History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View. We saw in my episode on Kant how Kant saw the teleology of humanity as establishing the perfect civil constitution, though I also speculated that, if we take Kant’s later writings on history in the context of his early pre-critical work on natural history, this Kantian teleology for humanity is nested within a larger cosmological teleology. By my reading, then, Kant is actually the more naturalistic position, while Fichte is the more anthropocentric, and his ideal is a purely spiritual ideal, even an a priori idea. For example, Fichte isn’t in the least interested to even give an estimate of the period of time that will be required for humanity to abolish all government, but he only points out that this is the ultimate end.
Marx also predicted the withering away of the state after communism had been achieved, and Marx, too, emphasized definite stages in human development that would lead to this outcome. With Kant, Fichte, and Marx all predicting the end of formal human governments we might take this prediction as a distinctive feature of a certain class of philosophies of history. Toynbee, too, saw not exactly the end of the state, but the end of universal civilizations, which would cede their place to universal churches, which sounds to me a lot like Kant, Fichte, and Marx anticipating the ultimate abolition of government in a perfect society.
This we can understand as a kind of inverse teleology, in which it is not (or not only) the advent of some future eventuality that is foreseen, but the abolition of some present state-of-affairs in the future as the goal of human development. For Kant, Fichte, Marx, and Toynbee, there is a dual teleological movement, in which some novel state-of-affairs is to unfold, while a present state of affairs is to give way and disappear as the new order comes to replace it. We could call this a stadial philosophy of history, but it is as much a substitutional philosophy of history: one social order is substituted for another; familiar institutions are to be replaced by novel institutions that take their place.
As far as the new institutions are expected to be an improvement over the old, this is also a melioristic philosophy of history. All progressivist philosophies of history are also melioristic, but we can distinguish between gradualistic meliorism, in which iterated reform eventually converges on a perfect society, which could be a finite or an infinitistic process, and stadial meliorism, in which there is a replacement rather than reform of a social order, and this replacement is an improvement.
For a non-stadial, non-teleological philosophy of history, we can turn to Leopold von Ranke, who was critical of Fichte’s five epochs:
“One of the ideas with which philosophy again and again confronts history as an irrefutable claim is that mankind is on an uninterrupted road to progress, in a steady development toward perfection. Fichte, one of the foremost philosophers in this field, assumes five epochs, a world plan as he says – reason ruling through instinct, reason ruling through law, emancipation from the authority of reason, reason as science, and reason as art. If this or a similar scheme were to any extent true, then general history would have to follow the road of progress which the human race followed in the indicated direction from one age to the next. The sole subject matter of history would then be the development of such concepts as they appear and manifest themselves in the world of phenomena. But this is by no means the case. For one thing, the philosophers themselves have extraordinarily varied opinions about the nature and selection of these supposedly ruling ideas. But they very wisely focus only on a few peoples in world history while considering the lives of all the rest as nothing, as a mere supplement. Otherwise it could not be hidden for a moment that from the beginning to this day the peoples of the world have been in the most varied conditions.”We saw earlier that Fichte by no means argued for an uninterrupted road to progress, but we can set that aside as being of secondary importance. The antagonism between Fichte and Ranke runs deeper. Ranke is often associated with the emergence of historicism, and sometimes he is identified as the source of historicism. Ranke even was willing to express his historicism in theological terms when we said that all ages are equidistant from God. With this view of history as consisting of co-equal periods each with their own integrity it would be difficult, though not impossible, to argue for progress. In Characteristics of the Present Age Fichte rejects the view that an age can be assessed on its own terms:
“Should our view of the Present Age prove to have been a view taken from the standing-point of this Age itself, should the eye which has taken this view have been itself a product of the Age which it has surveyed, then has the Age borne witness to itself and such testimony must be set aside.”Fichte, then, needs some criterion for his view of the present age other than the present age itself, and he finds it in religion:
“…what has been the nature of this theory, considered in its essential elements, and to what chief department of human thought it has belonged? I answer:—It was a Religious Theory; all our contemplations were Religious contemplations, and our view of things, and the eye which embraced that view, were Religious.”Fichte goes one better and actually gives a definition of religion in the next paragraph:
“RELIGION consists in regarding and recognising all Earthly Life as a necessary development of the one, original, perfectly good and perfectly blessed Divine Life.”Both Ranke and Fichte, then, invoke theological sanction for their conception of history, though this conception is starkly different, with Ranke taking each age to be sufficient unto itself, and no less related to the divine than any other age, while Fichte took each age to be dependent upon a larger framework for its meaning. While Ranke the historian insists on the individual uniqueness of each age, while Fichte the philosopher sees each age in relation to the whole of which it is a part. It is the task of Fichte’s Characteristics of the Present Age to provide for his contemporaries this larger framework so that they can understand their place in history, which for Fichte means understanding their place in the moral development of humanity.
Even Fichte’s conception of religion and moral development is strikingly abstract, as we find a little further on in the last chapter of Characteristics of the Present Age: “…Religion is nothing external,—it never clothes itself in any outward manifestation.” And, “…True Religion does not manifest itself outwardly, and does not impel man to any course of external conduct which he would not otherwise have adopted, but that it only completes his true Inward Being and dignity.” This is not necessary an orthodox position, and we’ve already seen how Fichte got himself in trouble with authorities with his views on religion.
It would seem strange to call Fichte’s philosophy of history a providential philosophy of history, as it seems to have little in common with, say, St. Augustine, but by Fichte’s own account, his is a pervasively religious perspective, and his philosophy of history is an account of humanity’s progress toward moral perfection. This progress is a purely inward fulfillment, without any observational consequences, again, by Fichte’s own account. I’ve run into this view in one other thinker, and that is Simone Weil. In my episode on Weil I quoted her criticism of providentialism of a kind that I called vulgar providentialism:
“Divine Providence is not a disturbing influence, an anomaly in the ordering of the world; it is itself the order of the world; or rather it is the regulating principle of this universe. It is eternal Wisdom, unique, spread across the whole universe in a sovereign network of relations.”I think Fichte would have agreed with this, and with the examples of both Fichte and Weil we can see that there is a place within the conceptual space of philosophy of history for what we could call a pure providential philosophy of history, or, if you like, an a priori providentialism.
Ranke’s criticism of Fichte is predicated upon the necessity of a vulgar providentialism that is reflected in the empirical world. But if, as Fichte said, religion is nothing external, and it does not impel man to any course of external conduct, neither should it impel any course of external conduct on the world. This also resolves the paradoxical argument that Angelica Nuzzo found at the heart of Fichte’s philosophy of history, since the bare factual nature of history can be distinguished from the providentialism that can be construed a priori.
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2024.05.20 06:52 Captain_Chipz Tanglewood (Vault 904)
Faction Song Inspiration: Patti Page - Tennessee Waltz (1956)
Tanglewood is a faction that emerged from the remains of Vault 904, an experimental Vault-Tec shelter. Unlike other vaults, Vault 904 housed country music artists and regular Texans and Oklahomans who won tickets through radio show drawings. The vault’s designer, a Vault-Tec official who despised country music, ensured that the vault would only open when its inhabitants could perform a concert impressive enough to please the overseer. This overseer was a computer that processed information via the brain of a classically trained French orchestral composer. Adding to the challenge, the overseer could not be consulted for musical knowledge, and the vault library lacked any information on music theory or instrument usage, despite containing a vast collection of French orchestral instruments.
From the bombs falling in 2077 until the year 2226, the inhabitants of Vault 904 struggled to develop their musical talents, until January 1st 2226, they performed a concert that satisfied the overseer and the vault opened. Emerging into the wasteland, they brought with them an original musical culture born out of necessity and creativity. This culture, blending Americana roots with a new Baroque complexity, became the foundation of Tanglewood. The faction, now living under the protection of the Texas Rangers, established their settlement at the ruins of the Tanglewood Resort and Marina. The society that formed from this experiment is reminiscent of the baroque musical culture of the 1500s, with a distinctly Americana twist. Their music is wholly original, having been developed without outside influence, as the only way to hear music in the vault was to perform it on one of the provided instruments.
Leadership within Tanglewood is determined by talent and community contribution. The faction is led by a group known as the Maestros, with Grand Maestro Eleanor "Ella" Westfield at the helm. Ella, an accomplished violinist and visionary leader, guided the vault dwellers through their musical evolution. The Maestros, comprising the most talented musicians and influential community members, ensure Tanglewood’s continued growth and cultural richness.
Tanglewood’s structure mirrors that of an orchestra, with roles based on musical skill and creativity. Conductors lead different musical ensembles, coordinating performances and training new musicians. Composers create new music, blending Americana and Baroque influences, while Artisans maintain and repair instruments, as well as create new ones from scavenged materials. Principles are the leading artists on their respective instruments in the community and are sought for consultation and teaching. The daily life of Tanglewood is steeped with regular concerts and festivals celebrating their heritage and drawing visitors from across the Lone Star Wasteland. The society reflects the Baroque era in terms of clothing, architecture, and art, with an emphasis on ornate designs and elaborate details.
They maintain a practical relationship with the Texas Rangers, who provide protection in exchange for taxes and the rights to use the Tanglewood Resort and Marina as a naval base on Lake Texoma. They have little interest in or competition with the Brotherhood of Steel, as they do not possess any significant technology or resources that would attract the Brotherhood's attention. Members of Tanglewood are susceptible to conversion by the Coven of Christian due to their artistic and somewhat mystical inclinations.
Grand Maestro Eleanor "Ella" Westfield’s leadership and strategic mind have been pivotal in transforming their settlement into a thriving cultural hub. Conductor Samuel "Sammy" Harris, a charismatic and skilled leader, directs the main orchestra and inspires unity among the musicians. Composer Martha "Marty" Jenkins creates new works that blend Americana and Baroque styles, and her compositions are celebrated both within Tanglewood and by outsiders, her 4th symphony is the performance that granted the Vault Dwellers of 904 freedom.
They wear practical yet ornate clothing, seemingly inspired by Baroque fashion, often made from scavenged materials. Instruments are a common accessory, and they carry tools for crafting and maintaining their musical creations. Despite their peaceful and artistic nature, they are vulnerable to attacks and rely heavily on the Texas Rangers for protection.
Link to Full WIP Setting: Texoma Valley 2284
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Tanglewood is a faction that emerged from the remains of Vault 904, an experimental Vault-Tec shelter. Unlike other vaults, Vault 904 housed country music artists and regular Texans and Oklahomans who won tickets through radio show drawings. The vault’s designer, a Vault-Tec official who despised country music, ensured that the vault would only open when its inhabitants could perform a concert impressive enough to please the overseer. This overseer was a computer that processed information via the brain of a classically trained French orchestral composer. Adding to the challenge, the overseer could not be consulted for musical knowledge, and the vault library lacked any information on music theory or instrument usage, despite containing a vast collection of French orchestral instruments.
From the bombs falling in 2077 until the year 2226, the inhabitants of Vault 904 struggled to develop their musical talents, until January 1st 2226, they performed a concert that satisfied the overseer and the vault opened. Emerging into the wasteland, they brought with them an original musical culture born out of necessity and creativity. This culture, blending Americana roots with a new Baroque complexity, became the foundation of Tanglewood. The faction, now living under the protection of the Texas Rangers, established their settlement at the ruins of the Tanglewood Resort and Marina. The society that formed from this experiment is reminiscent of the baroque musical culture of the 1500s, with a distinctly Americana twist. Their music is wholly original, having been developed without outside influence, as the only way to hear music in the vault was to perform it on one of the provided instruments.
Leadership within Tanglewood is determined by talent and community contribution. The faction is led by a group known as the Maestros, with Grand Maestro Eleanor "Ella" Westfield at the helm. Ella, an accomplished violinist and visionary leader, guided the vault dwellers through their musical evolution. The Maestros, comprising the most talented musicians and influential community members, ensure Tanglewood’s continued growth and cultural richness.
Tanglewood’s structure mirrors that of an orchestra, with roles based on musical skill and creativity. Conductors lead different musical ensembles, coordinating performances and training new musicians. Composers create new music, blending Americana and Baroque influences, while Artisans maintain and repair instruments, as well as create new ones from scavenged materials. Principles are the leading artists on their respective instruments in the community and are sought for consultation and teaching. The daily life of Tanglewood is steeped with regular concerts and festivals celebrating their heritage and drawing visitors from across the Lone Star Wasteland. The society reflects the Baroque era in terms of clothing, architecture, and art, with an emphasis on ornate designs and elaborate details.
They maintain a practical relationship with the Texas Rangers, who provide protection in exchange for taxes and the rights to use the Tanglewood Resort and Marina as a naval base on Lake Texoma. They have little interest in or competition with the Brotherhood of Steel, as they do not possess any significant technology or resources that would attract the Brotherhood's attention. Members of Tanglewood are susceptible to conversion by the Coven of Christian due to their artistic and somewhat mystical inclinations.
Grand Maestro Eleanor "Ella" Westfield’s leadership and strategic mind have been pivotal in transforming their settlement into a thriving cultural hub. Conductor Samuel "Sammy" Harris, a charismatic and skilled leader, directs the main orchestra and inspires unity among the musicians. Composer Martha "Marty" Jenkins creates new works that blend Americana and Baroque styles, and her compositions are celebrated both within Tanglewood and by outsiders, her 4th symphony is the performance that granted the Vault Dwellers of 904 freedom.
They wear practical yet ornate clothing, seemingly inspired by Baroque fashion, often made from scavenged materials. Instruments are a common accessory, and they carry tools for crafting and maintaining their musical creations. Despite their peaceful and artistic nature, they are vulnerable to attacks and rely heavily on the Texas Rangers for protection.
Link to Full WIP Setting: Texoma Valley 2284
2024.05.20 06:22 GuiltlessMaple Best Cd Storage Boxes
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2024.05.20 06:21 BigHappyMouse- did Mariah X Eminem actually happened?
my theory is that mariah was throwing casual flirts when they met, and Em took it the wrong way.
this feud was messy but imagine if Mariah actually dated Em, imagine the music combo this duo would create.
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this feud was messy but imagine if Mariah actually dated Em, imagine the music combo this duo would create.
2024.05.20 06:18 ImpatientDelta 10 Best Radio Apps for iPhone
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2024.05.20 06:05 circuitgamer77 I'm curious if this is a common progression that I could find other examples of
Before I explain why I'm curious, here's the progression: bVI, v, i, bVII. That continues a bit longer into bVI, v, iv, v, but I'm mostly curious about that first part.
Musical context:
This is the bridge of the song, in Bm, just coming from the first ABAB part in Cm with a half step down key change, before returning to the chorus up a whole step in C#m. Some of those chords are in different inversions, but I didn't think that would be as useful to include. Main context with that part is that the bass through the first five chords is just stepping up the scale starting on G, which is the root of the first chord.
Question context (I wrote this part of the message first before realizing I should start with the useful detail):
I wrote a song about a month ago that I really like, but the way I usually compose doesn't require me to think about the "correct" function of the chords in the progression I choose. I like how this part sounds, but my knowledge of progressions in other songs is very limited, and I'm not great at identifying progressions exactly by ear yet. I know a moderate to decent amount of music theory, scattered across a lot of different aspects, but without that many examples to compare to. A lot of my music ends up using unusual progressions, and a lot of them end up being very non-diatonic, but I've been experimenting with using more diatonic progressions recently. A lot of time I have trouble classifying what key and mode my songs are in because of their non-diatonic-ness, but in this specific case it fits nicely into a clear key and mode.
If it's useful, here's a link to the song in a sequencer. The part I'm curious about is at measure 57. https://onlinesequencer.net/3964515
If this kind of question is a good fit for this subreddit, I'll probably have a lot more similar questions about other songs I wrote that I'm not sure about, but I don't want to do that if it doesn't fit well. And I'm not sure where I would even start with asking about my older experiments, which are substantially weirder.
Edit: I forgot to mention that I haven't actually looked at the progression for the verse and chorus sections yet. They might also be interesting, but I suspect they're closer to "normal" than the bridge, so I didn't look at them yet.
Edit 2: I just realized it kind of sounds cannon-like briefly to me, but I think that's more coincidence than anything.
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Musical context:
This is the bridge of the song, in Bm, just coming from the first ABAB part in Cm with a half step down key change, before returning to the chorus up a whole step in C#m. Some of those chords are in different inversions, but I didn't think that would be as useful to include. Main context with that part is that the bass through the first five chords is just stepping up the scale starting on G, which is the root of the first chord.
Question context (I wrote this part of the message first before realizing I should start with the useful detail):
I wrote a song about a month ago that I really like, but the way I usually compose doesn't require me to think about the "correct" function of the chords in the progression I choose. I like how this part sounds, but my knowledge of progressions in other songs is very limited, and I'm not great at identifying progressions exactly by ear yet. I know a moderate to decent amount of music theory, scattered across a lot of different aspects, but without that many examples to compare to. A lot of my music ends up using unusual progressions, and a lot of them end up being very non-diatonic, but I've been experimenting with using more diatonic progressions recently. A lot of time I have trouble classifying what key and mode my songs are in because of their non-diatonic-ness, but in this specific case it fits nicely into a clear key and mode.
If it's useful, here's a link to the song in a sequencer. The part I'm curious about is at measure 57. https://onlinesequencer.net/3964515
If this kind of question is a good fit for this subreddit, I'll probably have a lot more similar questions about other songs I wrote that I'm not sure about, but I don't want to do that if it doesn't fit well. And I'm not sure where I would even start with asking about my older experiments, which are substantially weirder.
Edit: I forgot to mention that I haven't actually looked at the progression for the verse and chorus sections yet. They might also be interesting, but I suspect they're closer to "normal" than the bridge, so I didn't look at them yet.
Edit 2: I just realized it kind of sounds cannon-like briefly to me, but I think that's more coincidence than anything.
2024.05.20 05:46 SquashDue502 Do you remember chords by shape or other non-name methods?
I started piano lessons in elementary school and stopped after about 3 years because I didn’t like the structure or being told what to play, so my knowledge of musical theory is rather weak. Honestly feel like being able to play what I wanted was what kept me playing all these years, and I just teach myself whatever techniques are necessary for the pieces I want to play (like playing the same note quickly with different fingers for Hungarian Rhapsody 2 or Gottschalk’s El Cocoyé)
A side effect of this abysmal musical theory training is that I legit don’t know a single chord by its name except maybe major, minor 7th and a diminished, I just know them by shape. So like some chords are “the squished chords”, some are a “claw” chord because I need to make that shape with my hand. Kinda like the episode of Friends where Phoebe is teaching Joey to play guitar.
Some composers also use certain constructions of chords more than others so it’s easier to recognize when sight reading if I know Alkan composed it for example.
Bit of a rant but curious if anyone else does this? If so feel free to share your fun ways of remembering chords lol
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A side effect of this abysmal musical theory training is that I legit don’t know a single chord by its name except maybe major, minor 7th and a diminished, I just know them by shape. So like some chords are “the squished chords”, some are a “claw” chord because I need to make that shape with my hand. Kinda like the episode of Friends where Phoebe is teaching Joey to play guitar.
Some composers also use certain constructions of chords more than others so it’s easier to recognize when sight reading if I know Alkan composed it for example.
Bit of a rant but curious if anyone else does this? If so feel free to share your fun ways of remembering chords lol
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This is my first time using Reddit, English isn't my native language first language, because I am from Russia. I saw that interior motives or everyone knows that was solved on Reddit and I have questions myself about something music related. So I was scrolling through SoundCloud and I came across this artist named Fenix sterrs and I don't understand their music I don't really know what if it's a band or just one person, because they used to have an Instagram page in their bio.. it used to be called officially Camilo Cartagena, but officially was spelled weird and now it's Cami10w, but I'll get to the point there used be 8 tracks and the 8 tracks had parts of the songs that sounded like samples, the parts it sounded like someone was getting beaten or jumped or something of that nature and it had screaming, sobbing and the person getting I think beaten being called slurs. I had no luck finding if those deleted tracks had samples from a movie, but my theory is that it is audio from Fenix sterrs getting assaulted or worse. Why do I believe this, because recently I looked at the Instagram on Fenix sterrs and on their story they were playing an acoustic guitar and singing, but the voice of the person singing sounded exactly like the person in the deleted tracks. So my question is who is Fenix sterrs and what is Fenix sterrs, because it says band leaks, but I think it's all one person. So, what is Fenix sterrs? who is Fenix sterrs and what genre of music do they make?
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2024.05.20 05:18 Mindless-Question-75 Looking for an obscure theory book, again...
 | Hi music theory reddit, I'm following a trail of citations, looking for this book. The best lead I have right now is one copy in a University Library in Toronto. submitted by Mindless-Question-75 to musictheory [link] [comments] In addition to the book being evidently quite rare, *I don't read German*. Oh well, if I get a copy I can run it through an AI to get a rough translation, and have friends who can translate the relevant bits more reliably. What I'm after is some evidence that Herbert published a description of the multiplication transformation as applied to tone rows or pitch class sets, in this 1954 book. If he did, then he's possibly the first one to introduce the concept to serialist theory, earlier even than Walter O'Connell's article "Tone Spaces" in 1959. Anyone here happen to have a copy? https://preview.redd.it/xt8hm6hvzh1d1.png?width=350&format=png&auto=webp&s=08249785bbf0afe8ff95695b27399bf84687dddc |
2024.05.20 04:48 Salt-Box-3550 Help type me based on this
I've taken multiple tests and want to know exactly what type I am. I'd like an extra opinion on what potential types I might have, as I'm not sure if what results I am getting are due to me wanting to be a certain type and a certain person, and if I am an unbiased enough source. I'm not even sure if my answers to the questionnaire are the most reliable, especially since I have a bad recollection of what I've thought of in the past or my behaviors, and I have a memory that is not ideal in certain areas. On tests, I've gotten INTP, ENTP, and I have a feeling INFP and ENFP might be strong contenders.
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- How old are you? What's your gender? Give us a general description of yourself.
- Is there a medical diagnosis that impact your mental/comportamental stability somehow?
- If you had to spend an entire weekend by yourself, how would you feel? Would you feel lonely or refreshed?
- What is your relation with movement and your surroundings? For instance do you prefer a sport or outdoors event? If an outdoors event what is it? And why? If not what type of activities do you tend to engage in?
- How curious are you? Do you have more ideas then you can execute? What are your curiosities about? What are your ideas about - is it environmental or conceptual, and can you please elaborate?
- Would you enjoy taking on a leadership position? Do you think you would be good at it? What would your leadership style be?
- Are you coordinated? Why do you feel as if you are or are not? Do you enjoy working with your hands in some form? Describe your activity?
- Are you artistic? If yes, describe your art? If you are not particularly artistic but can appreciate art please likewise describe what forums of art you enjoy. Please explain your answer.
- What's your opinion about the past, present, and future? How do you deal with them?
- How do you act when others request your help to do something (anything)? If you would decide to help them, why would you do so?
- Do you need logical consistency in your life?
- How important is efficiency and productivity to you?
- Do you control others, even if indirectly? How and why do you do that?
- What are your hobbies? Why do you like them?
- What is your learning style? What kind of learning environments do you struggle with most? Why do you like/struggle with these learning styles? Do you prefer classes involving memorization, logic, creativity, or your physical senses?
- How good are you at strategizing? Do you easily break up projects into manageable tasks? Or do you have a tendency to wing projects and improvise as you go?
- What's important to you and why?
- What are your fears? What makes you uncomfortable? What do you hate? Why?
- What do the "highs" in your life look like?
- What do the "lows" in your life look like?
- How attached are you to reality? Do you daydream often, or do you pay attention to what's around you? If you do daydream, are you aware of your surroundings while you do so?
- Imagine you are alone in a blank, empty room. There is nothing for you to do and no one to talk to. What do you think about?
- How long do you take to make an important decision? And do you change your mind once you've made it?
- How long do you take to process your emotions? How important are emotions in your life?
- Do you ever catch yourself agreeing with others just to appease them and keep the conversation going? How often? Why?
- Do you break rules often? Do you think authority should be challenged, or that they know better? If you do break rules, why would you?
2024.05.20 04:28 hues_of_longing I think a god warned me of death
I woke up the other morning pretty pissed. A letter about code enforcement from the county bitching about my yard. The land has grown steep in parts, and i my attempt to mitigate damage done by previous owners, I ended up with a mound of debris that likes to grow weeds as well. I called them. Take down the weeds, they say, they will work on me with the debris.
I cannot seem to keep a string trimmer. I am less affluent than my neighbors and can only seem to afford weaker electric ones, and their batteries or really any part of them dies within the year. So, I decided to look into unconventional methods, and found how I might to take up scything.
I did a lot of research, and romanticized the idea of restoring a 100 year old American scythe like the men doing so on youtube. I immediately, late at night, searched up anybody selling some locally on FB marketplace. A man was selling two, for very cheap, very nearby. I messaged him and worked out the purchase. I fell asleep thinking of restoring the old instrument. I felt calm.
In my dream, I was bowing before three figures. One, a female, who was peeling a fruit that looked like a honeycomb full with red droplets of blood. One, a naked male with what looked like a viking helmet and a long, golden horn in one hand. The last figure I could not make out, just a scuffy, charcoal-like image on the edge of a shadow. I wept when I saw the second figure, begging him to interject on my behalf. I seemed to have entered the dream mid-conversation.
The two other figures looked to him, the woman looking on me with an almost doting expression of pity. The shadowy figure seemed to be whispering to them both in a language I did not know. Both the helmeted man and the woman nodded to it. The woman looked on me with a charitable sort of smile.
"You will have to give some token of your appreciation later." she says. Then there is a conversation I still do not remember. And I wake up. I forget the dream.
I am 34. I have several children. My two older kids want to go get the scythes with me. We hop in the car, and I drive around, getting tools to use in the restoration.
The man lives in a remote part of the next county over. It takes a while to find his house. He is waiting in his driveway. When I pull up, I immediately start feeling dread. I can't figure out why. He seems like a nice guy. Yet I feel something is off. I do some meditative breathing and calm down. I get out.
He tells me where he got them, and we talk a little. As soon as I pick up and hold one, I feel a brief moment of shock. Like in my legs and arms. I insist on ignoring the stupid feelings. I dismiss it as me being reclusive and not feeling social today. After putting the scythes in the hatch of the van, I come around to the driver side and stop dead.
The man is standing there with a piece of paper in his hand. It's a "million dollar question" he says. It's some kind of religious pamphlet on a fake million dollar bill. The man talks for a moment about death, about how we aren't going to be here forever, about how Jesus Christ is the only thing that will keep our souls from going to hell.
The whole thing redoubles the dread I feel. I am very polite and talk my way back into my car, feeling the dread mount more and more as I drive.
We stop at a light after an onramp. I am coming off an interstate turning left onto an intersecting highway. I try to breathe, feel very sick. While the light is red I for some reason decide to turn on some music, maybe it will calm me down. I get the urge to fiddle with spotify on my radio screen. I hear a loud beep. The light is green. I hesitate only a split second and then I start going.
Suddenly, a vehicle goes screaming in front of me. A red and white pickup truck. Has to be going 55 if not 65. It's a blur basically, even if I do make some of it out. I screech to a halt and then once the truck clears, complete my turn and immediately pull into the nearest parking lot, which turns out to be a bank.
My kids didn't even notice. Nobody seems to have appreciated but me how close we were to serious trouble.
As background. "Skeeters" in pickup trucks are a real pain here. They drive like dickheads, they are stereotypical as hell, and often I find that they instigate road trouble a lot. I don't know what it is about this area, but the "muh trukk" people seem to be way more prevalent than anywhere else.
Of course my reaction is rage. I wish I could have found this idiot who ran a red light and almost killed me and my kids. We were feet from a rather brutal collision.
I am exhausted by the time I get home. I disassemble the scythes and put the metal parts in a rust solution. I think about taking a nap and that is when the dream comes back to me. I remember the figures. And in my waking mind, I have theories on who they are. I do read a lot of old greek poetry and philosophy, so it could just be a coincidence.
However. If three greek gods were indeed discussing my fate in a dream, and one decided to intervene on my behalf, thanks a lot. I will find some "token of appreciation" to give.
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I cannot seem to keep a string trimmer. I am less affluent than my neighbors and can only seem to afford weaker electric ones, and their batteries or really any part of them dies within the year. So, I decided to look into unconventional methods, and found how I might to take up scything.
I did a lot of research, and romanticized the idea of restoring a 100 year old American scythe like the men doing so on youtube. I immediately, late at night, searched up anybody selling some locally on FB marketplace. A man was selling two, for very cheap, very nearby. I messaged him and worked out the purchase. I fell asleep thinking of restoring the old instrument. I felt calm.
In my dream, I was bowing before three figures. One, a female, who was peeling a fruit that looked like a honeycomb full with red droplets of blood. One, a naked male with what looked like a viking helmet and a long, golden horn in one hand. The last figure I could not make out, just a scuffy, charcoal-like image on the edge of a shadow. I wept when I saw the second figure, begging him to interject on my behalf. I seemed to have entered the dream mid-conversation.
The two other figures looked to him, the woman looking on me with an almost doting expression of pity. The shadowy figure seemed to be whispering to them both in a language I did not know. Both the helmeted man and the woman nodded to it. The woman looked on me with a charitable sort of smile.
"You will have to give some token of your appreciation later." she says. Then there is a conversation I still do not remember. And I wake up. I forget the dream.
I am 34. I have several children. My two older kids want to go get the scythes with me. We hop in the car, and I drive around, getting tools to use in the restoration.
The man lives in a remote part of the next county over. It takes a while to find his house. He is waiting in his driveway. When I pull up, I immediately start feeling dread. I can't figure out why. He seems like a nice guy. Yet I feel something is off. I do some meditative breathing and calm down. I get out.
He tells me where he got them, and we talk a little. As soon as I pick up and hold one, I feel a brief moment of shock. Like in my legs and arms. I insist on ignoring the stupid feelings. I dismiss it as me being reclusive and not feeling social today. After putting the scythes in the hatch of the van, I come around to the driver side and stop dead.
The man is standing there with a piece of paper in his hand. It's a "million dollar question" he says. It's some kind of religious pamphlet on a fake million dollar bill. The man talks for a moment about death, about how we aren't going to be here forever, about how Jesus Christ is the only thing that will keep our souls from going to hell.
The whole thing redoubles the dread I feel. I am very polite and talk my way back into my car, feeling the dread mount more and more as I drive.
We stop at a light after an onramp. I am coming off an interstate turning left onto an intersecting highway. I try to breathe, feel very sick. While the light is red I for some reason decide to turn on some music, maybe it will calm me down. I get the urge to fiddle with spotify on my radio screen. I hear a loud beep. The light is green. I hesitate only a split second and then I start going.
Suddenly, a vehicle goes screaming in front of me. A red and white pickup truck. Has to be going 55 if not 65. It's a blur basically, even if I do make some of it out. I screech to a halt and then once the truck clears, complete my turn and immediately pull into the nearest parking lot, which turns out to be a bank.
My kids didn't even notice. Nobody seems to have appreciated but me how close we were to serious trouble.
As background. "Skeeters" in pickup trucks are a real pain here. They drive like dickheads, they are stereotypical as hell, and often I find that they instigate road trouble a lot. I don't know what it is about this area, but the "muh trukk" people seem to be way more prevalent than anywhere else.
Of course my reaction is rage. I wish I could have found this idiot who ran a red light and almost killed me and my kids. We were feet from a rather brutal collision.
I am exhausted by the time I get home. I disassemble the scythes and put the metal parts in a rust solution. I think about taking a nap and that is when the dream comes back to me. I remember the figures. And in my waking mind, I have theories on who they are. I do read a lot of old greek poetry and philosophy, so it could just be a coincidence.
However. If three greek gods were indeed discussing my fate in a dream, and one decided to intervene on my behalf, thanks a lot. I will find some "token of appreciation" to give.
2024.05.20 04:21 HiCFlashinFruitPunch I got bored and wrote this about TPAB to send to my friends…
(The post is slightly altered because the original text was more personal and directed at my friend)
All of this is stuff you’ve already heard before so this is just my personal looks at the album, its meaning, and why it’s probably the best rap album we’ll ever see.
If you have listened to TPAB all the way through then you remember that in the final track, Mortal Man, it’s Kendrick and someone else talking. I put this together and it’s just the conversation they have so you can easily read it and see who is talking when.
This is how I interpret albums meaning: TPAB is about the issues that African Americans will face due to the neglect of the U.S. government. The idea of the butterfly is a person who has become famous, or has power. That’s why in tracks like Wesley’s Theory, the opening track, the person talking says, “When the four corners of this cocoon collide You'll slip through the cracks hopin' that you'll survive Gather your weight, take a deep look inside Are you really who they idolize? To pimp a butterfly.” A butterfly is a transformed caterpillar, so in TPAB the idea of a caterpillar is someone who the government, or really anyone for that matter, doesn’t care about. Once they become famous (transform) and have power, they are treated better or like a butterfly.
Also, fun fact about TPAB that you prob already know. The original title was going to be “To Pimp a Caterpillar.” This was because it would then abbreviate to “2PAC” instead of TPAB.
Now for the conversation:
Kendrick: “I remember you was conflicted, misusing your influence. Sometimes I did the same, abusing my power full of resentment. Found myself screaming in a hotel room. I didn’t wanna self destruct. The evils of Lucy was all around me, so I went running for answers. Until I came home, but that didn’t stop survivors guilt. Going back and forth, trying to convince myself the stripes I earned, or maybe how A-1 my foundation was. But while my loved ones were fighting a continuous war back in the dirty, I was entering a new one. A war that was based on apartheid and discrimination. Made me wanna go back to the city and tell the homies what I learned, the word was respect. Just because you wore a different gang color than mine's doesn't mean I can't respect you as a black man. Forgetting all the pain and hurt we caused each other in these streets. If I respect you, we unify and stop the enemy from killing us, but I don't know, I'm no mortal man, maybe I'm just another n*. Shit and that's all I wrote. I was gonna call it Another N** but, it ain't really a poem, I just felt like it's something you probably could relate to. Other than that, now that I finally got a chance to holla at you. I always wanted to ask you about a certain situa--, about a metaphor actually, you spoke on the ground. What you mean 'bout that, what the ground represent?”
Friend: “The ground is gonna open up and swallow the evil…”
Kendrick - “Right…”
Friend: “That's how I see it, my word is bond. I see--and the ground is the symbol for the poor people, the poor people is gonna open up this whole world and swallow up the rich people. Cause the rich people gonna be so fat, they gonna be so appetising, you know what I'm saying, wealthy, appetizing. he poor gonna be so poor and hungry, you know what I'm saying it's gonna be like... there might be some cannibalism out this mutha, they might eat the rich.”
Kendrick: “Aight so let me ask you this then, do you see yourself as somebody that's rich or somebody that made the best of their own opportunities?”
Friend: “I see myself as a natural born hustler, a true hustler in every sense of the word. I took nothin', I took the opportunities, I worked at the most menial and degrading job and built myself up so I could get it to where I owned it. I went from having somebody manage me to me hiring the person that works my management company. I changed everything I realized my destiny in a matter of five years you know what I'm saying I made myself a millionaire. I made millions for a lot of people now it's time to make millions for myself, you know what I'm saying. I made millions for the record companies, I made millions for these movie companies, now I make millions for us.”
Kendrick: “And through your different avenues of success, how would you say you managed to keep a level of sanity?”
Friend: “and by my faith in "all good things come to those that stay true. You know what I'm saying, and it was happening to me for a reason, you know what I'm saying, I was noticing, shit, I was punching the right buttons and it was happening. So it's no problem, you know I mean it's a problem but I'm not finna let them know. I'm finna go straight through.”
Kendrick: “Would you consider yourself a fighter at heart or somebody that only reacts when they back is against the wall?”
Friend: “Shit, I like to think that at every opportunity I've ever been threatened with resistance, it's been met with resistance. And not only me but it goes down my family tree. You know what I'm saying, it's in my veins to fight back.”
Kendrick: “Aight well, how long you think it take before n***** be like, we fighting a war, I'm fighting a war I can't win and I wanna lay it all down.”
Friend: “In this country a black man only have like 5 years we can exhibit maximum strength, and that's right now while you a teenager, while you still strong or while you still wanna lift weights, while you still wanna shoot back. Cause once you turn 30 it's like they take the heart and soul out of a man, out of a black man in this country. And you don't wanna fight no more. And if you don't believe me you can look around, you don't see no loud mouth 30-year old muthafuckas.”
Kendrick: “That's crazy, because me being one of your offspring of the legacy you left behind I can truly tell you that there's nothing but turmoil goin' on so I wanted to ask you what you think is the future for me and my generation today?”
Friend: “I think that n***** is tired of grabbin' shit out the stores and next time it's a riot there's gonna be, like, uh, bloodshed for real. I don't think America know that. I think American think we was just playing and it's gonna be some more playing but it ain't gonna be no playing. It's gonna be murder, you know what I'm saying, it's gonna be like Nat Turner, 1831, up in this muthafucka. You know what I'm saying, it's gonna happen.”
Kendrick: “That's crazy man. In my opinion, only hope that we kinda have left is music and vibrations, lotta people don't understand how important it is. Sometimes I be like, get behind a mic and I don't know what type of energy I'mma push out, or where it comes from. Trip me out sometimes.”
Friend: “Because the spirits, we ain't even really rappin', we just letting our dead homies tell stories for us.”
Kendrick: I wanted to read one last thing to you. It's actually something a good friend had wrote describing my world. It says: "The caterpillar is a prisoner to the streets that conceived it. Its only job is to eat or consume everything around it, in order to protect itself from this mad city. While consuming its environment the caterpillar begins to notice ways to survive. One thing it noticed is how much the world shuns him, but praises the butterfly. The butterfly represents the talent, the thoughtfulness, and the beauty within the caterpillar. But having a harsh outlook on life the caterpillar sees the butterfly as weak and figures out a way to pimp it to his own benefits. Already surrounded by this mad city the caterpillar goes to work on the cocoon which institutionalizes him. He can no longer see past his own thoughts. He's trapped. When trapped inside these walls certain ideas take roots, such as going home, and bringing back new concepts to this mad city The result? Wings begin to emerge, breaking the cycle of feeling stagnant. Finally free, the butterfly sheds light on situations that the caterpillar never considered, ending the internal struggle. Although the butterfly and caterpillar are completely different, they are one and the same. What's your perspective on that? Pac? Pac? Pac?!”
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All of this is stuff you’ve already heard before so this is just my personal looks at the album, its meaning, and why it’s probably the best rap album we’ll ever see.
If you have listened to TPAB all the way through then you remember that in the final track, Mortal Man, it’s Kendrick and someone else talking. I put this together and it’s just the conversation they have so you can easily read it and see who is talking when.
This is how I interpret albums meaning: TPAB is about the issues that African Americans will face due to the neglect of the U.S. government. The idea of the butterfly is a person who has become famous, or has power. That’s why in tracks like Wesley’s Theory, the opening track, the person talking says, “When the four corners of this cocoon collide You'll slip through the cracks hopin' that you'll survive Gather your weight, take a deep look inside Are you really who they idolize? To pimp a butterfly.” A butterfly is a transformed caterpillar, so in TPAB the idea of a caterpillar is someone who the government, or really anyone for that matter, doesn’t care about. Once they become famous (transform) and have power, they are treated better or like a butterfly.
Also, fun fact about TPAB that you prob already know. The original title was going to be “To Pimp a Caterpillar.” This was because it would then abbreviate to “2PAC” instead of TPAB.
Now for the conversation:
Kendrick: “I remember you was conflicted, misusing your influence. Sometimes I did the same, abusing my power full of resentment. Found myself screaming in a hotel room. I didn’t wanna self destruct. The evils of Lucy was all around me, so I went running for answers. Until I came home, but that didn’t stop survivors guilt. Going back and forth, trying to convince myself the stripes I earned, or maybe how A-1 my foundation was. But while my loved ones were fighting a continuous war back in the dirty, I was entering a new one. A war that was based on apartheid and discrimination. Made me wanna go back to the city and tell the homies what I learned, the word was respect. Just because you wore a different gang color than mine's doesn't mean I can't respect you as a black man. Forgetting all the pain and hurt we caused each other in these streets. If I respect you, we unify and stop the enemy from killing us, but I don't know, I'm no mortal man, maybe I'm just another n*. Shit and that's all I wrote. I was gonna call it Another N** but, it ain't really a poem, I just felt like it's something you probably could relate to. Other than that, now that I finally got a chance to holla at you. I always wanted to ask you about a certain situa--, about a metaphor actually, you spoke on the ground. What you mean 'bout that, what the ground represent?”
Friend: “The ground is gonna open up and swallow the evil…”
Kendrick - “Right…”
Friend: “That's how I see it, my word is bond. I see--and the ground is the symbol for the poor people, the poor people is gonna open up this whole world and swallow up the rich people. Cause the rich people gonna be so fat, they gonna be so appetising, you know what I'm saying, wealthy, appetizing. he poor gonna be so poor and hungry, you know what I'm saying it's gonna be like... there might be some cannibalism out this mutha, they might eat the rich.”
Kendrick: “Aight so let me ask you this then, do you see yourself as somebody that's rich or somebody that made the best of their own opportunities?”
Friend: “I see myself as a natural born hustler, a true hustler in every sense of the word. I took nothin', I took the opportunities, I worked at the most menial and degrading job and built myself up so I could get it to where I owned it. I went from having somebody manage me to me hiring the person that works my management company. I changed everything I realized my destiny in a matter of five years you know what I'm saying I made myself a millionaire. I made millions for a lot of people now it's time to make millions for myself, you know what I'm saying. I made millions for the record companies, I made millions for these movie companies, now I make millions for us.”
Kendrick: “And through your different avenues of success, how would you say you managed to keep a level of sanity?”
Friend: “and by my faith in "all good things come to those that stay true. You know what I'm saying, and it was happening to me for a reason, you know what I'm saying, I was noticing, shit, I was punching the right buttons and it was happening. So it's no problem, you know I mean it's a problem but I'm not finna let them know. I'm finna go straight through.”
Kendrick: “Would you consider yourself a fighter at heart or somebody that only reacts when they back is against the wall?”
Friend: “Shit, I like to think that at every opportunity I've ever been threatened with resistance, it's been met with resistance. And not only me but it goes down my family tree. You know what I'm saying, it's in my veins to fight back.”
Kendrick: “Aight well, how long you think it take before n***** be like, we fighting a war, I'm fighting a war I can't win and I wanna lay it all down.”
Friend: “In this country a black man only have like 5 years we can exhibit maximum strength, and that's right now while you a teenager, while you still strong or while you still wanna lift weights, while you still wanna shoot back. Cause once you turn 30 it's like they take the heart and soul out of a man, out of a black man in this country. And you don't wanna fight no more. And if you don't believe me you can look around, you don't see no loud mouth 30-year old muthafuckas.”
Kendrick: “That's crazy, because me being one of your offspring of the legacy you left behind I can truly tell you that there's nothing but turmoil goin' on so I wanted to ask you what you think is the future for me and my generation today?”
Friend: “I think that n***** is tired of grabbin' shit out the stores and next time it's a riot there's gonna be, like, uh, bloodshed for real. I don't think America know that. I think American think we was just playing and it's gonna be some more playing but it ain't gonna be no playing. It's gonna be murder, you know what I'm saying, it's gonna be like Nat Turner, 1831, up in this muthafucka. You know what I'm saying, it's gonna happen.”
Kendrick: “That's crazy man. In my opinion, only hope that we kinda have left is music and vibrations, lotta people don't understand how important it is. Sometimes I be like, get behind a mic and I don't know what type of energy I'mma push out, or where it comes from. Trip me out sometimes.”
Friend: “Because the spirits, we ain't even really rappin', we just letting our dead homies tell stories for us.”
Kendrick: I wanted to read one last thing to you. It's actually something a good friend had wrote describing my world. It says: "The caterpillar is a prisoner to the streets that conceived it. Its only job is to eat or consume everything around it, in order to protect itself from this mad city. While consuming its environment the caterpillar begins to notice ways to survive. One thing it noticed is how much the world shuns him, but praises the butterfly. The butterfly represents the talent, the thoughtfulness, and the beauty within the caterpillar. But having a harsh outlook on life the caterpillar sees the butterfly as weak and figures out a way to pimp it to his own benefits. Already surrounded by this mad city the caterpillar goes to work on the cocoon which institutionalizes him. He can no longer see past his own thoughts. He's trapped. When trapped inside these walls certain ideas take roots, such as going home, and bringing back new concepts to this mad city The result? Wings begin to emerge, breaking the cycle of feeling stagnant. Finally free, the butterfly sheds light on situations that the caterpillar never considered, ending the internal struggle. Although the butterfly and caterpillar are completely different, they are one and the same. What's your perspective on that? Pac? Pac? Pac?!”
2024.05.20 03:51 UrTypical10yr no history in music
I have almost zero history in music when it comes to playing instruments, save for a couple of failed piano lessons, and have no idea how music theory works. I picked bass because of the tablature and the fact I wouldn't need to actually read sheet music, but I wanted to know if it would be better, being a beginner in bass, if I did have a deeper understanding of melody and rhythm.
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2024.05.20 03:08 Outspoken_Contrarian Private piano lessons in downtown from a longtime local musician :)
 | Hello, Durango! I teach piano lessons from home right by Buckley Park and figured I’d share my flyer here. submitted by Outspoken_Contrarian to Durango [link] [comments] My approach is based on defining specific goals (writing songs, playing with a band, learning covers) and focusing on the essential areas in order to make it happen. I teach my students to think about music in simple shapes and patterns in a way that makes the whole thing a lot more approachable. My rate is $60 per hour. If that sounds like something you’d be into, feel free to message me with any questions! |
2024.05.20 03:07 MatthewSchreiner Education
My councelour at school recomended I look into taking classes over the summer. I would like to see what they offer online, but another thing is, I would like it to be free. Does anyone know any Catholic Colleges who offer free online courses (like bachelors degree or whatever) in Liturgy, Liturgical Music, or Theology. As well if this fails, does anyone know a place I can get a degree in music theory?
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2024.05.20 03:04 FrankieClasson [Start] Am I the only living person in my early 40's that plays instruments, writes songs & plays video games?
I'm just looking for ANYONE within maybe 10 years of my age (so, like 31 - 51) that just wants to play some music (online collab, l'd imagine, unless they happen to live near Myrtle Beach, SC) and ideally also some games with a headset, where we can talk about said music while we do. None of my friends seem to ever play instruments, so l'm saying fit and just making a post. As far as the type of music I like to play and/or record goes..... well, the instrument that I'm most fluent with and have to most confidence with is guitar, for sure..... but using music theory, I can dabble with most instruments. As far as genres and specific bands go, it runs the gamut.... One thing I CAN tell you is that I def. tend to lean more towards minor keys and often am of the mindset that, unless you're Bob Marley, "happy music" sucks (to me, at least)... it just doesn't feel as authentic. If anyone can empathize with any of this, thus far, hit me up and we can talk more about specific bands or whatever you want. I CAN tell you that more often than not, I prefer musical acts that play actual instruments..... not so much edm or house/techno/trance, etc.... essentially, NOT stuff you'd hear "in da club". ..... more stuft you'd hear at a bar that books bands or something of the sort. Bonus points if you're an audio gear head, and double bonus points if you're so obsessed with pedals that you even try to make some of your own. :)
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