>
> I share your world's visio:I want a free world too, outside of the software
> too. Besides,the world is dying (sorry about my english) because of
> polution and misery (money),so, we need a free world,free food, free houses,
> free everithing.
>
> For now, I just make Musix GNU+Linux, and this is making musicians to make
> free music, and tobe free as in freedom while them make their music, so, I
> am happy whit That
>
> Un abrazo desde Argentina,el granero del mundo!
>
>
> 2006/12/23, Carlo Capocasa :
>>
>> ... and why that's relevant to any of us here who are smart enough not
>> to care!
>>
>> Well I don't know about you guys, but to me when I was a kid, 'cool' was
>> always a mystery.
>>
>> I had a friend who gave himself a 'cool' image and I kind of liked my
>> intelligent philosopher image (that's not what I thought of it at the
>> time but I think it discribes it quite well) so we eventually drifted
>> apart. He also tried to kind of 'lift' me onboard to hang with the cool
>> kids, but you know... For one thing, this involved starting to spend
>> massive amounts of money on alcohol, and for another, it seemed kind of
>> hard to me to actually do something interesting and be cool at the same
>> time.
>>
>> But I still knew there was something there. Being kind of a geek loner
>> dude, I knew I didn't want to go around and 'be' cool then and there and
>> pay the price, namely let go of my values, as I would call it today. But
>> 'cool' had something. What was this mysterious cool? I had to know.
>>
>> Today I have found out many things that are uniquely relevant to 'cool'.
>>
>> For one thing, I realized a lot of cool kids of the time are on WELFARE
>> now. Not to say that's a sign of failure, I went through the same thing
>> for a short while when I dropped out of university to start my first
>> business. It's not failure, but it is a sign that 'coolness' did not
>> seem to have a lot of relevance when it came to survival. In school,
>> that was grades. Here in the world where people who make food, shelter
>> and clothing all expect money in return, we're at the mercy of the cold,
>> hard cash. But we're certainly not at the mercy of the 'cool' hard cash,
>> that's for sure! Ask any engineer.
>>
>> But then there were all of these marketing types who appeared to
>> actually be able to convert 'cool' to payments. And there were the
>> 'stars' and the 'media phenomenons', who all appeared to do the same
>> thing. My emphasis is on 'appeared', because according to musicians who
>> broke free the music industry is all about who slept with whom and who
>> owes whom a favor, much more so even than who is cool. But then they
>> somehow usurped the authority of what 'cool' is. And then it hit me.
>>
>> 'Cool' has absolutely nothing to do with desirable, even though it
>> pretends to be that way. Anything that happens to be desirable isn't
>> really, it's only there to lure you into believing there is.
>>
>> 'Cool' essentially means 'approved by an external authority'. Cool can
>> be anything specific that authority assigns to be cool. Tomorrow, 'cool'
>> can mean 'carries a tracking microchip under his skin which also
>> functions as a member card to certain elitist dance clubs'. This is
>> REALITY TODAY in certain circles in Spain, as foolish as that is. (I'm
>> sorry I don't have sources for that right now, I WILL do better at
>> citing in future articles). But that's only an illustration on how
>> ludicrous 'cool' can be. In a lot of circles, stealing is 'cool'. Guns
>> are 'cool'. Violence is 'cool'. Even rape can be 'cool'. It's all up to
>> who is making up the rools of what cool means. But, regardless of who is
>> making the rules, it is all about one thing:
>>
>> 'Cool' is about someone else validating you. Saying you are 'all right',
>> 'accepted', and 'have a right to live'. Of course, these things can
>> also take other forms (like deriving that approval from a job and
>> productivity) but, essentially, it is all the same thing, and in pop
>> culture, where survival is already taken care of by a job and
>> entertainment is key, external approval takes the form 'cool'.
>>
>> This is a tremendous control device. When someone is so afraid of being
>> rejected he or she needs an external source of validation, absolutely
>> anything will do. ANYTHING. And when there is more than one source, the
>> source that is the most impressive to the subconscious mind wins.
>>
>> The cool kids do not dress shiny because that's part of being cool. Cool
>> kids dress shiny because their 'leader' (where there is 'cool' there is
>> also a 'leader', or 'sociopath' if you prefer that term) has used
>> superficial attractiveness and impressiveness, superficial because it
>> only deals with the 'animal' aspects of us and hence has nothing to do
>> with values, sustainability or love, but only with: "Is it shiny? Is it
>> symmetric? Is it aesthetic in some way? Does it seem mysterious and
>> special if I don't dig too deep?"
>>
>> Hence, we have the typical behaviours of that insane bunch of idiots
>> (I'm sorry about the term, but yes, I would say cool kids qualify as
>> idiots, for the most part, according to most definitions of sanity,
>> certainly of mine) who call themselves 'cool kids' explained quite
>> neatly. And, of course, since there is now no growth to seek because
>> anything outside of the boundaries of 'cool' is out of bounds, enter
>> competition as a superficial struggle to give life meaning. Hence we
>> have football, baseball, ping pong, but also chess, street behavior,
>> gangs, and, ultimately, armies, secret services, and war.
>>
>> Ever notice how 'cool kids' seem drawn to James Bond? Guess why. The
>> answer is in who gets to be the official authority of designation in
>> 'what cool is'. Yes, that's right! To be dictator of coolness you must
>> fight for it... anyone who realizes what WE just realized and sets out
>> to be one of the 'leaders' to profit from the sheep's ignorance has
>> competition. There are only so many sheep, and to feed one wolf it takes
>> many sheep, so the wolves fight to the death (literally) for who gets to
>> control the sheep... By defining cool and punishing the un-cool. Yep...
>> The only condition for 'cool' is it must be specific enough so the
>> un-cool can be punished, excluded, even persecuted. This has happened
>> over and over again through history.
>>
>> THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE IN PRINCIPLE BETWEEN THE COOL KIDS IN HIGH SCHOOL
>> AND THE SPANISH INQUISITION.
>>
>> All right... now where are we going with this? I am writing here because
>> I want to make linux audio POPULAR with the masses. Why? Linux audio
>> embodies free spirit. It is very difficult to work with linux audio if
>> you are not a free spirited person, because if you're not a free
>> spirited person using linux audio is a very difficult thing to do
>> because it violates the way you think. ("It's too complicated" "So many
>> distributions... what is a distribution, anyway? It's way too
>> confusing..." "There's so much choice I don't know what to do") much in
>> the same way using Windows violates the way you think if you ARE free
>> spirited ("Microsoft is trying to control me and limit my freedom").
>>
>> In other words, music produced with linux audio is bound to be free
>> spirited in nature. It is INHERENTLY free spirited. You don't get any
>> freer today than linux audio.
>>
>> And I want to make the free spirit the way the world works. I want no
>> less than to end hierarchy, to end competition, to end war, to end any
>> nonsense talk of 'natural selection' (don't worry not to replace it with
>> 'God created us all but hates some of us', another manifestation of the
>> 'cool' scenario, but to replace it with 'God created us all, and there
>> happens not to be a distinction between God and me, since the only sane
>> definition of God is "The Collective of all beings", so God created
>> itself in a collaborative process, and Free Software is part of that
>> process. So is, in fact, proprietary software, but on a lower level of
>> evolution')
>>
>> In other word, I intend to replace the 'cool' paradigm of 'be cool and
>> adhere to my specific requirements' to 'you're already cool, there's
>> nothing specific you need to do to be 'cool'.
>>
>> So there goes 'cool' out the Window. If you don't give any specifics of
>> coolness, there is no longer such a thing as 'cool', simply because
>> there no longer is such a thing as 'uncool'.
>>
>> So I decided to learn from the experience and find an expression that I
>> can use to make the new thought of 'anything goes' more attractive to
>> sheep. After all, the thing 'cool kids' do to lure victims into their
>> cobwebs is to use shiny stuff, sweet stuff, intoxicating stuff,
>> addicting stuff. Smart cool kids (yeah, not the way we're smart, but
>> there ARE a few reasonably intelligent cool kids, although they usually
>> hide it quite well. I'm not saying wise, just intelligent.) all use this
>> to hide the fact that 'coolness' is a very unwise place to be, simply
>> because it leads to emotional breakdown and dullness and uniformity,
>> much like fascist regimes, in fact the cool kids in school ARE small
>> fascist regimes, so they lure the kids in with all kinds of monuments
>> and ritual and stuff that makes the animal mind, which controls the
>> emotions, go 'Oooooh, wow!'.
>>
>> According to a Hawaiian Shaman, Serge Kahili King, who has rightfully
>> earned my respect, there are two ways to be impressive to the
>> subconscious mind. One: Sensory detail like high-detail image, touch,
>> sound, smell and taste, and two, repitition.
>>
>> This is, by the way, the process that I use on my OWN subconscious mind
>> to control my own behavior. I have a small notepad on which I wrote my
>> intentions as if they were already here, like: "I am a famous musician."
>> "I am a technology innovator" "I am a famous sex symbol." "I love people
>> and I show it." "It easy for me to make friends" and so on and so forth.
>> So I read these every day, and because I read it so often, my
>> subconscious mind starts to believe it and my so called 'affirmations'
>> become a self-fulfilling prophecy. That's using the 'repitition'
>> concept. The second thing I do is I think about myself on stage, with my
>> stage outfit and nice little linux audio box sitting next to me,
>> performing like crazy, again, as if it were already here (which, to my
>> subconscious mind, it is). Here I am using the 'detail and shinyness'
>> concept. These are the only two ways our subconscious mind can tell
>> important from unimportant stuff.
>>
>> Of course, some shrewd people have used this knowledge to create 'mental
>> prisons', where people think they are powerless and dependant, but that
>> is simply not true. You can start writing your linux software project
>> and making a living off your GPL licensed software TODAY... If you
>> decide that you can do it. All it takes, is that you use these two
>> techniques, impressiveness and repition, until you BELIEVE FULLY that
>> you can do it, at which point it will happen pretty much automatically.
>> Our space isn't as dense as one might have thought, on the contrary;
>> it's all just subconscious minds mingling with each other on various
>> frequencies, which is the same thing as objects, concepts, ideas, and
>> emotion. These four things are the same thing, at various levels of
>> density! Think about the implications of that.
>>
>> So these 'cool' people use this knowledge to 'impress' other people's
>> subconscious minds into perceiving them as important without exactly
>> knowing why, but nonetheless acting on these impulses as 'God given',
>> sometimes literally, sometimes more metaphorically ("Look at that Guitar
>> God!").
>>
>> So I finally realized why I was so intrigued with cool people: I was,
>> essentially, looking for techniques to impress my subconscious with
>> stuff *I* (my conscious mind, where my values and long-term benefits
>> thinking is) found right for *me*, and hence, one might say, run my own
>> brain, finally.
>>
>> Stuart Lichtman, another man I respect a lot, had phrased it this way:
>> Your brain is like a massively parallel computer, that is both analogue
>> and digital at the same time. Now paraphrasing: You program it by making
>> the analogue part (your subconscious) impressive enough until your
>> 'digital' instructions (conscious instructions) are impressed on it. You
>> program digital, but you transfer the digital using analogue techniques.
>> This is exactly the same as with a hard drive: You have binary data on
>> it, but to get the binary data on the disk, you use various, analogue
>> methods of, for example, magnetism, which you at an arbitrary point
>> separate into zeros and ones. This programming process is absolutely no
>> different to computers, which explains why we, as a species, were able
>> to invent them in the first place.
>>
>> So right now, what's happening, essentially, is that we're running
>> someone else's software. Again, that is absolutely no different than
>> Microsoft making sure they're the only operating system that you can get
>> on the market. They force you to update when *they* want, even force you
>> to connect to a wireless network when *they* want, simply because if
>> they would not do this their authoritarian programming style would break
>> down.
>>
>> That is exactly like the programs most of us inherited from our parents:
>> go to school, join the cool kids, get a job, play the same game with
>> your boss, make babies, pass on what you know (which is hardly different
>> from what your parents knew and taught you), wither, and die.
>> Depressing? Yep. That's why we're all here in the linux audio community,
>> to change all that. Linux really IS changing the world, because embedded
>> in the way it works are principles that can change EVERYTHING when they
>> are applied to the rest of the world. Think of bazaar style
>> supermarkets! Farms! Heck, governments! (They would cease to be
>> governments, more like 'recommendation centers', much like the W3C
>> consortium, saying this cautiously and not knowing much about it).
>> That's the REAL reason why we're all here on the web forums in our free
>> time when we could be somewhere else. It's this great opportunity to
>> change the world to be a free, loving place.
>>
>> So where does that leave us with 'cool'? Well, the cool kids know how to
>> program minds. They are using it for stupid purposes, however, we, the
>> 'smart' kids, are too awquard with our programming tools, our
>> subconscious minds, that a lot of us cannot really implement our
>> intelligence with any sort of confidence. So what we need to do is merge
>> the two worlds: We 'smart' kids must apply our intelligence for it to
>> become wisdom, and learn to speak the language of our emotions (which is
>> the same thing as our subconscious language, repetition and sensory
>> detail), and the 'cool' kids must learn to be more open to their
>> thoughtful and intelligent aspects, which, among most 'cool kid'
>> cliques, is pretty much a crime to do, which I perceive as simply
>> because if all 'cool' peasants keep each other dumb it is easier for the
>> street smart lord to exploit them. So 'cool' kids learn that being
>> 'cool' is a prison, and exploiters, left without anyone to exploit,
>> learn that they can actually produce value to survive instead of
>> competing at various arbitrary contests. And we, the educated, stop
>> whining about being excluded and stop trying to find ways to out-smart
>> each other (just another 'cool' trap, if we use our intelligence to
>> compete at some contest or to build weapons we will earn the approval
>> form the same source the 'cool' kids get it but it will only help us
>> realize how futile relying on external approval is), and start using our
>> intelligence for *constructive* purposes, and using our knowledge we
>> have learned from the 'cool kids' to actually convince people to follow
>> our recommendations and earn the greatest benefits.
>>
>> I'm gonna do that with song. I'm gonna be so cool I'm gonna be blazing.
>> I'm also going to be laughed at because I'm going to be very sexy, and
>> as a man, you get called 'gay' and laughed at if you're sexy, mostly to
>> pressure men into defining their value on the sex market by how well
>> they compete. But I'm brave, I don't care. And I'm going to be immensily
>> impressive by any standards (of subconscious minds), and I'm going to
>> lure immense amounts of people into taking me for an authoritative
>> figure, much the same way any cool kid does.
>>
>> And then I will brainwash the fuckers into believing the actually have
>> CHOICE in life, and that it is a good thing to take INITIATIVE and
>> create whatever the hell they WANT in their life. Just like I'm doing now.
>>
>> And much like, after finding out and having been tought that I can
>> CREATE ANYTHING I WANT IN LIFE I'm not creating myself playing more
>> video games, an attractive option as long as I believed I was powerless
>> to accomplish stuff in REAL life, but I'm going out attempting to help
>> people in a way no one has before, I believe those empowered people will
>> find a way to help me back, and hoping there will be at least some
>> vegetable farmers among them, that they will start sustaining people for
>> free. Or, as an interim, give me money as donations, but I like the
>> vegetable gift thing better, somehow :)
>>
>> So this is what I wanted to share with you, my message to you given
>> everything I have learned about how the world works, and probably the
>> reason why silicon valley firms exist, because we read the same books;
>> (Look for "The Master Key System" by Charles F Haanel, this is
>> supposedly what Bill Gates read to build his empire, only he used it
>> less constructively than we will) and what I want us to accomplish is
>> that we will have more impact on the world than any company ever could.
>> This is already happening, but the more 'enlightened' developers we
>> have, in other words, developers who are aware of how the mind can be
>> programmed and are hence incredibly effective, even at the stuff they
>> are ALREADY good at, the stuff YOU are already good at, we can become
>> even MORE effective at producing excellent software...
>>
>> ... AND MAKING THE TIME TO DO SO by getting our asses out of any sorry
>> job we might have.
>>
>> That is playing with our survival instincts for sure, and is not an
>> *easy* thing to do, although it is a *simple* thing to do. Just go out,
>> get your affirmation card, and write one it something along the lines
>> of: "I am a free software developer and I can sustain myself." The rest,
>> my friend, will be history.
>>
>> And why am I writing all this stuff to you? I'm a musician! I want more
>> free software to play with. Code it now!
>>
>> ;)
>>
>> I love you guys. All of you.
>>
>> Carlo
>>
>>
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