rgoulet
join:2000-10-27
Pittsburgh, PA
|  Our last best hope to fight mediocrity
Where do I signup? Where do I send my contributions? I need to help this cause. Its bigger than just the ability to listen to decent music at work.
We live on the verge of what could be a very sad era for American culture. The forces of creeping mediocrity and anti-democratic choice restriction are slowly eating away at the vitality and diversity that has made American Culture as powerful and engaging as it is.
hmmm. . . mediocrity and no choice. . . sounds like soviet era politics (which proved that decay necessarily follows from lack of choice). Well we've already lost our choice at the polls. And now in one of fate's curious ironies, unrestrained capitalist greed has started to twist and pervert our democratic polity so as to fashion for itself a kind of neo-soviet market of consumers robbed of any choice. ONE record company cartel. ONE oil company cartel. ONE film studio cartel. ONE radio and television cartel. ONE news outlet. You have no choice. You are irrelevant.
Internet radio is one small area that is seeking to open up to more diversity, more voices, more ideas, more formats, more choices for everyone. Tell me, where on the radio dial can I hear Digweed & Sasha?
Remember that we aren't irrelevant yet, and that we will have to fight to keep choice. Write you congressman. Write your senator. Write your newspaper. Write your grandmother. Just let your voice be heard or the bastards will take it away from you. |
