All the Secrets of the Universe and Some Really Important Stuff Too!
There are a large number of performances of Pachelbel’s Canon by various musicians using various instruments but this one is the peak by my estimation. When I’m in a mood to just totally reject humanity due to the insanity, violence, cruelty, stupidity and seeming lack of any redeeming quality, something like this performance will recenter me.
It’s Beethoven for me, especially Movement 1 of Moonlight Sonata. it is brilliant, minimalist, and pure beauty. I want this played at my funeral.
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Bach Oboe and Violin, mesmerizing
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And now, for something completely different—
It may not be delicious irony but it is surely irony defined when an organization named anitfa(scist) didn’t go to the trouble to research exactly what a fascist means and then adopts methods used by the 1930’s German fascists.
The rampages of the Brown Shirts during the late 1930’s around Kristallnacht weren’t inherent to Fascism but it was inherent in Naziism.
Fascism was the child of Socialism first envisioned by Benito Mussolini who was then a high party official of the Italian Socialist Party.
I like this one too, it’s about 1/100 of a second before the 1st shot.
Time and events exists on all scales, from Panck time roughly 5×10^-44th sec up to 10’s of billions of years or roughly 3×10^17th sec. We just happen to exist such that we observe events in our very narrow band of that scale.
Truthfully, I went through a phase when I did drugs but that ended well over 40 years ago. I was lucky, not smart, no incredible willpower, just lucky. I apparently didn’t possess whatever gene creates the predilection to addiction and dependency. I could try something and say, “That was kinda cool” and walk away. A lot of people do have that gene and they are the unfortunates that battle dependency their entire lives. Some people, bless them, do possess that gene but also have a strength of character to refuse to succumb to alcohol, or drugs of lord knows what type.
A big problem being there have been some frightening drugs created over the last decades, drugs so horrendously addicting and/or destructive. I’m not certain that that it is possible to 100% solve the problem but, with these, an effort has to be made.
Having know a few of the addictive unfortunates, I have some sympathy and wouldn’t accept any solution that required that addicted users end in a jail cell.
I never dabbled with the supply side but obviously knew people who did and also know there is, and will always be, a percentage of the population that can no more resist the prospect of easy and big money than the users can resist the product.
I have no ideal what the solution could be other than to contain it to whatever extent possible. A lot of lives ruined and this includes especially alcohol. I do know that simply criminalizing every aspect, even strongly, reduces the problem but does not eliminate. Ever heard of Prohibition? That worked well, humm?
You’d think that the flood of fentanyl would act to suppress drug use because if you have to worry that the next dose of your whatever contains a fatal dose of something unexpected.
As far as blowing people away who are part of this plague of Musk level rich narco-terrorism? I’m perfectly okay with that.
