Start At The Beginning; Proceed Until You Reach The End; Then Stop

Midievel music has been filling the air of my apartment, recently. I'm listening to

some John Dunstable, right now.

I really want to to be able to write music that resonates more with The Timeless, rather than just being a reflection of this cultural aberration that we are all living through. 

The 1300's was a time when secular music overtook the "sacred" kind, before giving way to choral music.

I think there used to be a fear that crept up in the minds of the more virtuosic musicians back then, which was that their "gifts" would be construed as being from the devil and not sacred at all. Then, they might be burned at the stake, while Christians held crucifixes while they watched.

It would be cool to travel back through time to maybe around the year 1250 and to score the music for "War Pigs" by Black Sabbath, arranged for lute, zampogna, crumhorn and hurdy gurdy, or maybe the tune of "Purple Haze," by Jimi Hendrix, but with lyrics taken from the liturgy of a mass.

Shadow Ban The Oligarchs

I wonder if there is much importance to the apparent lawsuit being filed by Trump and others against the same Google and Youtube and Facebook that has shadow banned me (under this phone number, at least). That just seems like such an immature millenial thing to do, to try to control the flow of human discourse, so that nobody ever sees or hears anything that goes counter to the world view held by a handful of people at the top of the Big Tech food chain.

By the time any change comes about, I should have reinvented myself as a brand new person with his first Google account.

It's pretty bad when somebody will "unfriend" you on Facebook because you texted them a message that included "no, I haven't taken the vaccine yet," and that person was afraid to even have that text in his inbox.

I guess that can happen to people who stare at their phones from the moment they wake up in the morning until they plug it back in to charge while they sleep again.

The truth is that, if you watch a video on Youtube that advances some conspiracy theory of some kind, then Youtube should suggest to you other videos that have been similarly "tagged."

People all over the globe, who might want to read about my busking experiences (if they ever resume) should be able to find my blog by searching for specific terms like "Street Musician Daniel" in New Orleans -that should whittle down the list of results to maybe myself and this other guy named Daniel who used to play acoustic blues with an electric guitar and a harmonica.

But, to make a statement like: "I haven't gotten (the thing) yet, I'm holding off.." in a blog post, only to see the visibility of the blog suddenly way down on the list of results the very next day after the same search. That's just a blot on human history. A thousand years from now, a high school history textbook will probably have a chapter entitled something like: "The Social Media Age," with subsections like "Digital Fascism; the rise and fall of Mark Zuckerberg et. al."