Has Modern Music Become a Weapon of Mind Control?

[Robert Greene]

It seems like they are trying to kill our culture with the terrible music they put out. Has music become a weapon of mind control?

 

Edited December 28, 2017 by Robert Greene

[Michael Hardner]

You don't get to decide what is popular.  Baby Boomer drug music was also decried by the wise people of the previous generation.  

Nobody needs your coked-out folk guitar tunes, designed to coax people into smoking bad weed and having sex with a mangy-bearded stranger at a campfire.  Move along...

[Robert Greene]

How old are you? Just curious

[Michael Hardner]

1 minute ago, Robert Greene said:

How old are you? Just curious

I am timeless and ageless.  That's me in the photo, taken 30 years ago. 

[Robert Greene]

I'm 34. Don't be afraid to tell your age. I want to know about your life experiences, since we're talking music. What did you grow up with? 

How old are you?

Edited December 28, 2017 by Robert Greene

[Robert Greene]

 

[Michael Hardner]

I'm in late middle-age.  But I hang around young people and try to stay interested in the world.  

[Robert Greene]

Ok I grew up during gangster rap. Kids with giant egos having to conform to a mentality of mass narcissism. The elite have turned these kids into Zombies. It's social engineering.

[Michael Hardner]

2 minutes ago, Robert Greene said:

The elite have turned these kids into Zombies. It's social engineering.

But somehow you escaped it, huh ?  And luckily found taxme  the poster with the best ideas you have ever heard !  Well, it's a good thing you listened to John Denver growing up.  That's a sure formula for mental success, I think.

[Robert Greene]

6 minutes ago, Michael Hardner said:

But somehow you escaped it, huh ?  And luckily found taxme  the poster with the best ideas you have ever heard !  Well, it's a good thing you listened to John Denver growing up.  That's a sure formula for mental success, I think.

You kinda seem like a dick. It sucks because I like half your posts. As soon as someone posts something you don't like you insult them, instead of correcting them on why you think they're wrong. You undermine your respect by being a jerk.

Edited December 28, 2017 by Robert Greene

[Michael Hardner]

3 minutes ago, Robert Greene said:

You kinda seem like a dick. It sucks because I like half your posts.

Well, I don't blame you for saying that.  I have been dickish to you maybe because I expect my harsh criticism of your dumb ideas to go over well with you.  Obviously, it wouldn't.  I guess if I have hurt your feelings I have made some impact.  Let it be said that I think you're probably an intelligent enough fellow, who is nice and probably nicer than me.  But I think your ideas about the world are quite retarded and I would love it if you weren't allowed to vote.

That said, we can coexist in harmony.  Even though I didn't like rap from the 1990s except some Wu Tang Clan and poppy stuff like Snoop Dogg and Pharcyde...

[Michael Hardner]

Cheers to you for putting up with me.

 

 

[bush_cheney2004]

Why are these delicate matters from American culture being argued as Federal Politics in Canada ?

Did Canada officially surrender to The Borg ?

[Michael Hardner]

1 minute ago, bush_cheney2004 said:

Did Canada officially surrender to The Borg ?

We never left the Borg.  Americans are revolting, not the frozen subjects of her majesty's hat.

[Robert Greene]

1 hour ago, bush_cheney2004 said:

Why are these delicate matters from American culture being argued as Federal Politics in Canada ?

Did Canada officially surrender to The Borg ?

We're stuck with your music.

[bush_cheney2004]

3 minutes ago, Robert Greene said:

We're stuck with your music.

 

Then the "mind control" is voluntary.

[Robert Greene]

You might like me. You might hate me. Watch a minute of the video. Then tell me what you think. I would love to get Taxme's opinion on this.

Edited December 29, 2017 by Robert Greene

[bush_cheney2004]

4 minutes ago, Robert Greene said:

You might like me. You might hate me. Watch a minute of the video. Then tell me what you think. I would love to get Taxme's opinion on this.

 

His premise is neither correct or original....old people like me have seen it many times before.

That's OK...the demise of "culture" is new...for him.

All that has changed is access and distribution because of technology.

[Robert Greene]

This is a deliberate weapon to screw up the youth.

 

[bush_cheney2004]

1 minute ago, Robert Greene said:

This is a deliberate weapon to screw up the youth.

 

Methinks it is more a deliberate weapon to sell music and tickets....same as Elvis grinding his hips.

[Robert Greene]

4 minutes ago, bush_cheney2004 said:

 

Methinks it is more a deliberate weapon to sell music and tickets....same as Elvis grinding his hips.

And we turn a blind eye and let it happen. We let the youth get messed up, because we're too busy working 9 to 5 to care.

Here's my definition of real music.

 

[bush_cheney2004]

5 minutes ago, Robert Greene said:

And we turn a blind eye and let it happen. We let the youth get messed up, because we're too busy working 9 to 5 to care.

Here's my definition of real music.

 

Not worried....counter culture hippies went on to build multi-national corporations and financial derivatives. 

In 1964, real music was great if it had a good beat and you could dance to it on American Bandstand.

[Robert Greene]

2 minutes ago, bush_cheney2004 said:

 

Not worried....counter culture hippies went on to build multi-national corporations and financial derivatives. 

In 1964, real music was great if it had a good beat and you could dance to it on American Bandstand.

Well the youth have been culturally sanitized.

Edited December 29, 2017 by Robert Greene

[cannuck]

Music has ALWAYS been about mind control.  If it wasn't, it would not be appreciated.  The real question is the proportion of how much popular music leads vs. how much follows popular culture.

Pop music is, as is any other music, something that has a definite shelf life, UNLESS it is actually good music.  My kids grew up with gansta-rap as well, but never, ever played it on electronic devices or obviously on any musical instruments.  Both are classically trained, but when summers came along and there was no classes or competitions to deal with, they would often request sheet music from my boomer youth.  Lenon-McCartney, Stones, a lot of the folk rockers, etc. seem to have withstood that test of time (at least for the first half century), but even having been there, I could not really say they lead or followed.

[bush_cheney2004]

1 minute ago, Robert Greene said:

Well the youth have been culturally sanitized.

 

Youth is wasted on the young...eventually they have to decry the next generation too.