In response to Carles from Hipster Runoff…
You have meddled with the primary forces of nature, Carles, and I won’t have it! Is that clear?
You think you merely stopped a ‘human meme.’ That is not the case. Dubstep has taken billions of dollars out of this country, and now they must put it back! It is ebb and flow, tide and gravity. It is ecological balance.
You are a ‘content farmer’ who thinks in terms of search queries and buzz. There are no nations. There are no ‘authentic bloggers.’ There are no buzzbands. There are no ‘chillwaves.’ There is no ‘blogosphere.’ There is no P4K. There is only one holistic system of systems. One vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multi-varied, multi-national dominion of dollars. Petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars, reichmarks, rands, rubles, pounds and shekels.
It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this Internet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic, and sub-atomic and galactic structure of things today.
And YOU have meddled with the primal forces of nature. And you will atone.
Am I getting through to you, Carles?
You get up on your little MacBook Pro screen and howl about LanaBB and Search Engine Optimization. There is no buzz. There are no memes. There is only P4k and Stereogum and MTVHive, and GorillaVsBear, elbo.ws, Brooklyn Vegan and The Low Times Podcast. Those are the nations of the world today.
What do you think the editors of SPIN talk about in their Councils of State? Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, mini-max solutions, and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments, just like we do.
We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Carles. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business. The world is a business, Carles. It has been since Alan Freed crawled out of the slime.
And our children will live, Carles, to see that … perfect … world in which there is no 10.0, nor snark, buzz or top 10 lists. One vast and ecumenical holding company for whom all men will work to serve a common profit. In which all men will hold a share of stock.
All necessities provided. All anxieties tranquilized. All boredom amused. And I have chosen you, Carles, to preach this evangel.
Because you look good, bb!!
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Amadou & Mariam are a musical couple from Mali, Africa who have released a handful of albums already. A new full-length titled Folila is on it’s way and will be out in March; Theophilus London, TV On The Radio and Bassekou Kouyate make guest-appearances, along Santigold who delivers a verse on the infectious Dogou Badia (and guitar work from Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Nick Zimmer).
