A week is a long time

 

Has it really been two years? My little guys thought it was a week. Well, it was for them but with the relativity of time and gravity and all it soon added up back on Earth. You see they were very concerned about the way things were going on their favourite planet, so they took time out for a planning retreat. You know - the sort of thing big corporates and government departments do to concentrate on the big issues. Luxury, out of the way location, lots of nice catering, team building, design sprints and focus groups. Yada yada. For my little guys it was a seven day road trip around a couple of constellations and back, toting a slightly different approach on return.

We’ve said this before, but playing a song isn’t going to change the world. And at this point in time, the world is changing in ways that are well beyond the scope of music to effect. Taylor Swift aside, (but with her I suspect it’s more the football and the social media influencing than the music) socio-political ra-ra set to a beat is going to achieve jack. It’s like it was 50+ years ago when the kids thought that wearing flowers in their hair was going to stop LBJ shipping them off to die in the jungle. When you are facing impossible odds you need to beat it back to the barracks and get back to basics.

Not to put too fine a point on it, the human race is fucked. Covid gave everyone the sign that we were heading up Shit Creek and no one could agree on the design for the paddle, much less agree on how to use it. In the face of a common threat everyone started acting more selfishly than ever, especially those with the power to make the big decisions. Then you get past the microbe threat and you dive into the ego threat from the same narcissistic politicians, one after the other – first Trump, then Putin, then Netanyahu, then whatever is next down the pipe. Couple that with the ongoing climate threat and it is enough to make one feel a little insignificant and powerless. Hence the need for a massive reset.

Music is never going to be far away because it helps to keep you sane, but this blog is going to focus on some bigger picture stuff for a while. The big stuff is where the roots to the problems lie, and a lot of the big stuff is maintained by total blind acceptance. That’s where we come in as individuals. It’s time to channel our inner three year old and start asking, WHY? That’s something your average corporate retreat does, but they limit it to five whys then you should know where to go. If only it was that simple. We are not going to limit it. You keep asking why until the people who are trying to keep you brainwashed and submissive run out of the easy answers, and if they resort to the frustrated parent’s response of “because I say so” then you know you are winning. You can’t have much of a coup / war / fascist repression if no one shows up.

Stick with us. We will still be linking it back to music, but the time has come to turn it off and turn it back on again.