@magpiekilljoy What are some pieces of media (besides your writing) that you feel accurately represent radical leftist culture? Like actually give an accurate picture of how people interact with each other in leftist spaces.
@marlinswillsoar @BeeSideTapes It's not about their songs; it's about their shows. They're a jam band, meaning they exist primarily to perform live and do extended improvisations over simple chord progressions while their fans dance. The recordings exist mostly to remind people of how they felt at the shows.
@forked_queer@brandenbrown95@aksocolofsky @moreaujonny "Jazz isn't Western art music"? Interesting, seeing as how it was developed as art music, right here in the USA. Is there perhaps something about the culture it came from that you think does not qualify as "Western"?
@gospodyina @Komaniecki_R Except kids don't understand that the words high and low refer to pitch frequency. They think it means volume. They also don't understand that the higher notes are on the right side of an instrument. As a general music teacher, I have to spend a lot of time teaching these things
@Komaniecki_R@Nata_Yazhi General music teacher here. Vertical pitch arrangement is not at all intuitive. We have to spend several lessons teaching littles that "high/low" does not mean volume, & that "higher" pitches are on the right side of the orff xylophone or piano.
@Tantacrul Well, I like being able to keep track of acquaintances without going to the trouble of talking to them. There are some people who I'm not super close with, but I still want to know how they're doing.
@Freeyourmindkid You don't have to dig very far to find out that, at least as recently as the 70s, American pop culture didn't really treat pedophilia/hebephilia/whatever as a bad thing.
@Freeyourmindkid Kids are traumatized, and--more importantly--very immature. They missed out on two years of crucial social development, and now have a greatly reduced capacity to tolerate other people. It's no wonder fights have skyrocketed.