well kane, i don’t think what those techies said is entirely untrue, i’m loath to admit. a great bit of philosophy is hot air, but because most philosophers - excluding a section of ruling class lackey philosophers who’s job it was to rationalize the power of the elite over the majority - aren’t aware of the hot air they’re blowing, so they aren’t to be blamed for the mess they make. these are honest mistakes. when a philosopher commits these, we treat him/her like a retarded kid; we pat him on the head, say ‘it’s okay, you did your best’, and give him a popsicle.
but just because the techies happened to be right in their estimation, it doesn’t mean they know exactly how and why most philosophy is hot air… and this is because one has to be a philosopher to know this stuff. that totally looks like a blatant contradiction, i know, but it’s not. i meant a different kind of philosopher; the new and improved version, one who will appear to the philosophers in the same way the antichrist appears to the christians.
but these techies are probably just jealous because they don’t have the vocabularies or rhetorical skills that philosophers are trained to have. and btw, something needs to be righted about the history of philosophy, while i’m at it. every philosopher hitherto called a ‘sophist’ has actually been the true philosopher, while those who most detested them (e.g., plato and socrates) were the fakes. the art of true philosophy has only recently come into form over the last couple centuries… namely in the analytical movements. the analytical movement is to philosophy as a whole, what the sophist movement was to philosophy in particular. in fact, we owe the sophists for proving, ipso facto, the essence of philosophy as hot air. it was their capacity to persuade with any well crafted argument, that proved the latent obscurity in philosophical language. we needed the sophists to realize this, to be able to see what philosophy was capable of. without them, and the recent analytical movement, we might have been doomed for another thousand years of gobbledygook and intellectual shenanigans.
p.s. i can’t seem to find a way to reply to your comment on my soundcloud page. probably because i only spent 4.7 seconds doing so. i’ll just answer here; all those songs were ‘written’ with a free beat-maker app, so any sounds you are hearing are part of whatever sound-set is being used. i’ve linked to the app in the info section of the page if you want to try it out. it’s very easy to use. if you want a challenge, try recording a single track without using the metronome. this is as close as you’ll get to actually needing some skill as a ‘musician’ to write something. these new electronic music making devices are so easy to use, an orangutan could put mozart to shame with one. this isn’t a good thing, btw. modern technologies are slowly depreciating music, eliminating both the intimacy a musician has with his instrument, as well as the technical skill needed to be a real musician with any degree of talent.
this all began with the tinsel town rebellion, which is a long story that would require a critical analysis of capitalism and its effects on the music industry… something i am not able to give at this juncture due to a toasted bagel being now ready for my consumption. frank will fill you in while i’m gone.