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Originally Posted by clutnuckle
Well how far ahead is anybody thinking? I'm thinking anywhere from 50-100 years. The world is going to COMPLETELY change by then, based off of the kind of power China will become, and its ties to other powers; their influence IS going to come to matter in Western Civilization like it never has, as well as parts of Europe. A lot more suppression will exist in everyday life. Yes, there is ALWAYS mainstream, but the mainstream will not be easy to avoid. Or in the other sense, it will be easy to avoid, but there will be nothing else to catch up with.
For instance, China has already banned several music websites ( see http://www.scaruffi.com/boycott.html for an example [and no, I don't read Scaruffi, but a friend link it to me.] ). It will not be as 'easy' to find the 'underground' scene as many people seem to think. It will result in impersonal, calculated suffocation. |
I don't know, I think this is a bit extreme. It's an interesting Red Dawn like theory but seems to be thinking a little too outside the realistic scope. Albeit there have been attempts in America to Censor the Internet(Hillary Clinton was huge on it) we're too self indulgent of a commercialism society to let anybody take our porn away from us. I doubt we'll let them take away the music. China may be a growing military super-power, but if they take over the first world, it's not likely they'll keep a hold of it for very long. People in their country can get around their censors.
As for the unbearable-ness of mainstream music. I think that comes from human laziness. Just cause people don't sift through free music it doesn't mean it's not there(take a visit to archive.org if you believe otherwise. Albeit... too many people doing avant-garde ambient noise... dammit, a little is ok but learn to play instruments. Anybody can put effects on the sounds of planes flying by, and birds, and slap in static).
Thing I wish though is that people would go out, and mingle more with the regional audience. Find artists/musicians to connect with directly, and support. Connect with other people directly like I'm hoping to try to do more, and more, over the next few months,