Jan. 2nd, 2018 02:34 pm
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oakfarmOne band that I sometimes can't help myself but listen to is Sabaton. I can write about them and end up writing about transhumanism. For those who don’t know Sabatons nich is heavy metal songs about historical war. Songs with war like lyric like “On the quietest night in the darkest hour, / The kriegsmarine appear”, or “August in black, b-29 coming back, prepare for nuclear attack” or to take a non second world war example: “Cannonballs are coming down from the sky / Janissaries are you ready to die?”, the last being about the siege of Vienna 1683. Apparently the singer has said that they do not glamorous war, just tells it how it was. The problem is that young men and boys sees every war description as glamorous? Example: correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t Full metal jacket, Apocalypse now and The Platoon meant to be anti-war movies but young guys still thought those movies celebrated the Vietnam war as a glamorous adventure (if all girls in the world got the anti-war message is another question)? So the same could happen with Sabatons songs. Because we guys are that screwed up in the head when we are young and we should consider surgery on parts of the lizard brain?
The last might not be a bad idea. Food, sex, to say nothing about fear, violence and aggression makes life harder. So we can live without those parts of the brain. Beside eternal youth, isn’t transhumanism about getting away from the pain of being human?
One other song I have been listen to is Wind of change by Scorpions, and that I have no reason to be a shame over, right? Those lines:
"Take me to the magic of the moment
On a glory night
Where the children of tomorrow share their dreams (share their dreams)
With you and me
Take me to the magic of the moment
On a glory night (the glory night)
Where the children of tomorrow dream away (dream away)
In the wind of change (the wind of change)
The wind of change
Blows straight into the face of time
Like a stormwind that will ring the freedom bell"
That’s 1990s nostalgia. The end of the cold war. The optimistism, I am glad I got to live thro that. And if the last songs made me think about transhumanism, this makes me think about football. Logic because before the world cup in football 1994, the ruling world champion Germany parted with Scorpions. So my question is 1994 when Bill Clinton opened the world championship in football (it was in the US that year), did he say “football” or “soccer”?
Endnote. The last weeks I have been writing three or four entries that I haven’t posted. Perhaps this should have been one of them I didn’t post, or not.
The last might not be a bad idea. Food, sex, to say nothing about fear, violence and aggression makes life harder. So we can live without those parts of the brain. Beside eternal youth, isn’t transhumanism about getting away from the pain of being human?
One other song I have been listen to is Wind of change by Scorpions, and that I have no reason to be a shame over, right? Those lines:
"Take me to the magic of the moment
On a glory night
Where the children of tomorrow share their dreams (share their dreams)
With you and me
Take me to the magic of the moment
On a glory night (the glory night)
Where the children of tomorrow dream away (dream away)
In the wind of change (the wind of change)
The wind of change
Blows straight into the face of time
Like a stormwind that will ring the freedom bell"
That’s 1990s nostalgia. The end of the cold war. The optimistism, I am glad I got to live thro that. And if the last songs made me think about transhumanism, this makes me think about football. Logic because before the world cup in football 1994, the ruling world champion Germany parted with Scorpions. So my question is 1994 when Bill Clinton opened the world championship in football (it was in the US that year), did he say “football” or “soccer”?
Endnote. The last weeks I have been writing three or four entries that I haven’t posted. Perhaps this should have been one of them I didn’t post, or not.
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