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July 19, 2005
Since I've been listening to music I have begun to wonder about the role of the listener in the music heard on the radio of the culture industry. I hear it in shopping malls, taxis, airports, on the street as I walk the dogs.
It seems as if commercial radio constructs me as mindless, as someone who does not have a culture, has little connection to serious music, and does need to be cultivated.
This kind of culture was no longer humanizing me as an individual. In fact, due to the concern with ratings to chase the all important advertising dollar:----this culture did not even bother to try to cultivate me. It is same with free-to-air television. Neither form of media cared about educating me, and both are quite happy to leave me uneducated and stupid.
The effect on me was to leave me anxious, inadequate and speechless. As I hummed along to the old tunes enwrapped in memories and illusions, I could feel myself regressing from all the violence hurled at me.
Where was the music that caused me to have goosebumps or shudder about the brewing disaster?
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