Well, I though I have been warning of much of this as we went, today when I woke up it was all so obvious to me I wanted to scream. Look, it's not news to others who are paying attention and I bet others somewhere have written about it (though I haven't seen it yet) but they've already got all us cattle roped in and headed towards the kill floor. All the parts are locked in so tight around us. And sure, companies we all think we love (Apple, Google) are new people on the block, but their scope and power is frightening more to me than the cold war when I was a kid. Could they do good and the "right" things still? Sure. Humans ALWAYS do that right?

The concept of freedom is wholly American. Everyone else came into existence under the thumb of the power brokers. And though we've had some ourselves in our relatively short history, we've also lived more freely in the past 100+ years than any people in world history. But our government (both sides) are ruining that, and what we all thought would FREE us again, technology, has been swallowed up by super powers that dwarf even our governments. And musicians are less than specs of dust in this giant dome of control. Though I can still help map out ways to make music and maybe make a living doing it, in context, it's all for naught unless some new freedom awaits us that isn't apparent. We had a small window that opened and it's slammed almost 100% shut right now. So how might we squeak through the opening? That's the question.

Brian

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