Machines (Start)
In one aspect our digital age can be compared to that distant time of my favourite Early Greek philosophers (one of whom I celebrated in my dance opera Empedocles). In those days ideas were transmitted by speeches and discussions, like today. However, for the future, these ideas were set down in rolled parchments (of course publishers didn’t exist at that time), which is probably why only fragments from this wonderful early philosophy have survived. Now we have instant communication and continuous information transferral. And paradoxically this amazing technology often results in fragmentation, hence this extract, which is the start of my music/film Machines, the first movement of Diversions for orchestra and moving/still images:
Machines (Start) Dismayed at the appalling racist violence in Charlottesville, as well as by the feeble initial statement about it from Donald Tweet. This ineptitude and underlying racialist and jingoistic tendencies emanate from someone who apparently is the most powerful person on the planet - how long can this dangerous situation last? And how long are people going to bother propping him up by trying desperately to paper over Tweet's absurd and chauvinistic blunders? |
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