Book idea: elderly stasi detective hunts down nazi young gangs in 1990 east germany music scene, refuses to learn anything about rock and roll.
Book idea: elderly stasi detective hunts down nazi young gangs in 1990 east germany music scene, refuses to learn anything about rock and roll.
Half way through the book the wall collapses, and having no job, he shoots David Bowie in Berlin after discovering he has underage groupies. The rest of the book is him being put on trial with all the teenagers and real life musicians he beat up testifying against him.
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This music, if one can call it such, is created from the sect of ‘shakers’ – dance that induces people to ecstasy, trance and makes them into wild animals ready for any wild action. This type of music is created with the help of psychiatrists so as to influence the brain and psychology of the people. This is one type of musical narcotics under whose influence a person cannot think of fresh ideas and are turned into a herd. It is useless to invite such people for revolution, for building communism.
- Stalin
☁️how many successful revolutionaries were ravers lmao, my man joe steel never misses
seriously tho look into CIA funding for the arts back in the day, we propped up mr. soup can painter to prove that capitalists had 'better culture' than the soviets, we propped up 'show don't tell' style writing/analysis to prevent the masses from having detailed and abstract thoughts/criticism. even if whatever specific music mentioned isn't a CIA op it would have been a safe bet to assume it was in that historical context lol.
we propped up 'show don't tell' style writing/analysis to prevent the masses from having detailed and abstract thoughts/criticism.
Do you really want the alternative of "tell don't show" though, because that's how you get Atlas Shrugged's infamous 60-page John Galt speech
its also how you get Dostoevsky afaik
edit: which as an american i obiously haven't read lol, my bookshelf here is like 80% trashy warhammer 40k novels
Yeah but it's also how you get Brecht, and Brecht is worth it imo..
we propped up 'show don't tell' style writing/analysis to prevent the masses from having detailed and abstract thoughts/criticism
the point of promoting show don't tell was to prevent people from making direct calls to action. i'd say valuing metaphor and allegory probably makes people more adept at the abstract if they're proficient at reading it
we took care of people reading & thinking proficiently with school privatization, don't get the two phenomena mixed up
played electric guitar in a jazz fusion band. I couldn't find any clips of their songs but this group was one of their inspirations, definitely the kind of thing that would have horrified stalin in 1946
Stalin was a lot of things one of those things is a man raised in the 1900's who liked to watch western movies