Comments by "John Crawford" (@JohnCrawford1979) on "The Stallman Report - A Hit Piece on the Free Software Founder" video.
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The irony it is 20 or 30 years ago, he would have been the typical lefty that took up these oddball subjects mostly because of the shock value it got from conservatives. I still remember the arguments among furries, who at one time actually cared not to be related to as being into certain things with animals just because a certain then growing section of the community was obsessed with drawing anthro characters in adult situations.
Then there's been the past decade of weebs who have had people freak out as much about their youthful looking anime girls as they do that many of them are Trump supporters. I get it, 4-chan is the dumpster pit of all vile things Reddit used to be (and in some areas still is), but really, cringe is cringe, regardless politics.
But Stallman is mostly a throwback to the old hippies. Not necessarily the first openly cringe fringe society group (the Greek cynics, literally called so as a reference to behaving like dogs, had at least a couple thousand years), they were the rebellion to what they considered a whitewashed society of the 50's. Ironically, once being the one's pushing to rage against the machine, they have become the machine to rage against.
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I seen it happen with a local coffee shop chain. Sure, the guy was a felon and registered offender, but that was well over a decade, and having done time, and the guy's clearly been trying to turn his life around and showing some success. But nope, none of that mattered when it came to 'St. George', who inspired the 2020 'summer of love', and naturally, coffee shop employees wanted to wear BLM shirts to work to show their solidarity with their favorite saint. Backlash came when the owner decided it wasn't work appropriate. Sure enough, even after giving an apology and trying to explain how he can relate with St George, the BLM fanatics still wanted their pound of flesh, and used the guy's past conviction against him. All those years of trying to prove he's more than just a convicted felon, poof! Gone because of stupid activists that have no sense of nuance or basic human empathy. Became yet another example of how the left eats itself.
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@marsovac - As for if Beethoven could have made good techno music, all you have to do is take any of his music and remix it, such as what Will Borders did with Beethoven's 5th Symphony. The Rad Man proves that Beethoven would have been awesome at Trance, as well with his remix of Beethoven Symphony No 7 in A major Opus 92 (2nd movement). We consider him good because he was, in many ways, truly the rock star of his age, and the influence of rock stars to come in future ages. John Lennon was nspired by Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata”, so much so that the song “Because” (1969) with Yoko Ono, used the piano chords from the sonata. Billy Joel paid tribute to Beethoven in his song “Piano Man” (1984) from his album “An Innocent Man”. Joel has mentioned playing Beethoven’s music before his own compositions. The Beatles version of Chuck Berry’s “Roll Over Beethoven” (1964) showcases their appreciation for classical music and Beethoven’s influence on rock and roll. Chuck Berry referenced Beethoven’s music with the desire for rhythm and blues to be respected as classical music.The Electric Light Orchestra's music often incorporated classical elements, including Beethoven’s symphonies, into their rock sound. The list can go on and on, and so can the remixes in all sorts of genres.
Also, I have much respect for Larnell Lewis on Drumeo, who learns how to play the drums to Metallica's "Enter Sandman" after hearing it for the first time. He's mostly a jazz musician, and in the video states he rarely, if ever plays metal. Yet, in the video, you can watch as he takes notes, and analyzes how the drums are being utilized in the song, and when he comes around to playing it, plays through it perfectly. That said, it is a disproof of you're poorly thought out idea that you can't be critical, or make a technical analysis of something you're not familiar with. It is precisely because of Larnell's technical understanding in jazz that he can take what he knows there and incorporate it in how to assess the techniques used in metal.
You can do the similar with film without being familiar with the genre, or not liking it. You can still critique a movie from a genre you're not familiar with, or don't like, simply based on knowledge of film studies. But even without that, films are about story telling, which means if you are an avid reader, maybe have taken courses or are familiar with reviewing books, you can also review and critique movies. Albeit, most book readers have a bias for the books vs movie version of books, which comes from changes that are made in the process of making the movie. Things are left out, of characters are changed from how they are in the book, and if you come from reading the book first, there are going to be things that will be disappointing when it comes to how the movie does things as opposed to the way the book did them. But you can still appreciate, if not at least point out the technical aspects of the nature of the storytelling done in the film, and maybe possibly pick up on other aspects of cinema that maybe are accurate presentations of themes, landscapes, and background of the story. It's having the basic set of tools that make it possible to cross over from one genre, or even a different format, between music to film to written literature, which makes for a true critique that can either appreciate what he's critiquing, or at least have the technical tools to be able to state what he does not like about something of a given genre or format.
For instance, 'to provide color' has meaning of reference in various forms of art, be it the literal color choices made by a painter, and how they may contrast to the pallet of colors (or lack thereof) used thus far. Or it can mean in music harmonic, rhythmic, or melodic color, such as using an alternative chord structure from the normal triad, changing up the cadence of the drums, or other rhythmic elements of a musical piece, and the particular way a melody is interpreted, or improvised upon. There's also use of dynamics and tempo, and more modern aspects of using an equalizer and compression to alter or highlight sounds. Even with films you have the use of pre-defined color schemes, such as triadic colors, to create a specific visual tone, which sounds very similar to the use of chords in music. Visually, it's similar to how the painter uses color on the still frame of a canvas. Likewise may a literary author use a color scheme in how they visualize the particular scene currently taking place in the book, such as down by the clear blue lake that mirrors the sky above, surrounded by the evergreen sentinels of the forest. Heck, even WWE wrestling talks of adding color when they want to draw blood for additional pop from the audience. Diverse genres and forms of art/entertainment, and yet they all can easily be critiqued objectively without a huge amount of knowledge, just by knowing the ways in which art/entertainment has these overlapping theory of concepts and ideas.
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