Fragments #5
(Junior Byles - Fade Away)
"There is nothing left to protect us from the scene of the real. Nothing left to protect us from the obscenity of the virtual, (of information, transparency etc). We are no longer the actors of the real but the double agents of the virtual"
Baudrillard, (among others), spoke of the 'Hyper - Real'. Which, as I have understood/interpreted it, is the place where reality, (of human contact, emotion, character and such things that used to define being human), is replaced by the virtual, (particularly visual media). Almost everything in the virtual is created, faked or at least edited to present and maintain the illusion of progress..politics and the news are clear examples...both offer but deliver nothing real.
Society is rotten at the core, (maybe it has always been?), and to cover that truth/reality the hyper - real was created to take our 'eye off the game'. Look at the growth in so called social networking, (or to put it another way the network economy), which is clearly the brave new world of the hyper real...
almost everyone I know, (rebels..hold firm), is on facebook..my children included. It seems to be the place where people choose to 'communicate' to their 'friends' and more importantly colleagues on the banality that fills the post modern desert that has been created for and forced on us. Do a search and see for yourself what the champions of the hyper-real are trading in. My guess is that it's value-less mediocrity or in the case of politricks....tomorrow. the day that never comes.
Anyway...enough of the social comentary and on with the musicology...Today's cut is from the enigmatic Junior Byles..well known slice of the Channel 1 pie that has trembled my marrow for at least 25 years...Seems like the right time has come to throw it down.
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