Music Has No Meaning

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Today in the West, of the many crisis we face, critical is the nature of the Culture Industry's monopolistic control over our expressive domain The interests that control the state have effectively neutralized any mode of public expression that in the past we have found empowering Along this course the nature of music itself has become twisted, altered, distorted to suit the needs of capital If we want music to contain any positive revelance to us again, we must take it back. Until then it ain't jack, hit it, that music has no meaning No value No power Minus one Zero Our tastes have become so standardized and regulated that we no longer make any choices for ourselves, the Culture Industry does all this for us We've become a nation of blindly accepting consumers, latching on to meaningless terms like "alternative," "progressive," "industrial," "techno," "rap," "house." We're promised liberation but all we get is empty distraction In our society, music is just a measure of forced consumption Until we change the social conditions under which music is made, that music has no meaning No value No power Minus one Zero What can we do about it? In the 90's as Big Business and Big Government realize that they needn't demonstrate any longer the intimidation and violent suppression of past authoritarian states, they prove conclusively that friendly fascism clearly exists in this society and the rulers of Corporate America have manufactured within its own people an addiction to pop culture so strong it renders us incapable of any action as individual or collective citizens and the real tragedy is that we have no problem with this Every fascist era has its giant spectacles to keep the people pacified With us it's just the MTV Video Music Awards and the Grammy's As long as we're willing to go on just passively marching and singing, then we know that music has no meaning No value No power Minus one Zero This music has no meaning No value No power Minus one Zero