ROCK'N TOMB
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1. ROLLING STONES DON'T GATHER MOSS
FLOGGING THEIR CORPSE



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KiNo TV - Map of the Universe




With the index title Modern Malady I am introducing a permanent analytical framework concerning the unification and clarification of the last century with it's scattered histories; like music, cinema, literature, art, economy, politics, for the benefit of locating ourselves on the map of our universe, now.

I will be evoking some key points for you to understand the disambiguation of what would be otherwise ambivalent; the clear definition of loyalty to the spirit, our essence and contradictory to that; the betrayal that is possessed by depleted, fake facades made to be products in this supermarket life.

Here we go, I take Rolling Stones as a symptom, to single handedly show what is eternally wrong with this fucking culture. What sets up this condition?

Modern Malady, yes modern sickness, is what I call this condition.

In context of music; particularly rock'n roll, because it's root lies in revolt and expression of youth, grappling with it's existential crisis, in which Rolling Stones played a role, somewhat authentic to the experience of rock music in the 1960s... fine.

Since then, themselves and their heirs-to-come who rejuvenated the revolt of rock'n roll with aesthetic make up, have been eventually disqualified, because their youth expired, leaving them with an empty shell. But, 'the youth' remains in charge constantly refilled by young blood.

The notion of youth is permanently fixed between the age group of 16 to 30. There is always people in it and those are the ones who change the world, reacting to the circumstantial degeneration of life, smothering under adult hegemony. Let's not forget, the youth arises out of childhood, the magnificent era in a human's life when truth is enlivened in it's purest form to be. If a kid has emotional intelligence that means he has the potential to be able to think when surrounded by shit and destroy that shit creatively.

What is the power that resides in youth and only in youth?

Therefore, Rolling Stones from 1968 to 2006 by carrying on flogging this outmoded phase of rock'n roll along with their corpses only make a perfect case for me to rip apart this ridicule.

Because through the years, history called the same fucking thing 'psychedelic rock', 'glam rock', 'punk rock', 'post punk rock', 'grunge', 'alternative' and many other atomic level derivatives that doesn't mean the relationship between music and youth changed as well. Thus, I must announce the vitality of the element of sound here!

Today, when music is totally fucked up by a machine called the industry, guess who is the direct victim?

The damage is prevalent in everyday life. There are more fucking rock bands in this city (New York where I happen to be, now) then there are enlightened individuals. What the fuck could this dumbfounded youth do in this culture?
They have been made to breathe this dream they can wear, smear and rub themselves with; the yuppie artifact of media.

In America for instance, the phenomenon of rock stardom is just plain pathetic insult to human intelligence. There are energy drinks, clothing companies, tv stations, advertisement agencies, myspace built on this dream that is sold to ordinary people who are told to 'party like rock stars'.
And who the fuck is the cardinal rock star? But, mister Jagger and his bone brothers.

When breaking down the existence of Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones, I ask you this question, if Mick Jagger is a rock star, what is John Lennon?

Quite obviously no one would define that man as a rock star, he is fucking John Lennon, a poet whose musical abilities were brilliantly in tune with his inner scope of understanding, bypassing and influencing life.
Mick Jagger fits in the lifelong tendency of the bourgeoisie to adore idolatry, confirms what a stupid useless thing a rock star is today more than ever before.

Moreover, celebration of tossers like 'Gene Simmons, Lenny Kravitz, Kid Rock, Franz Ferdinand, Interpol, Killers' or any other moronic goons is a cultural relapse from reason.

Let's face it, the glamourisation of rock stardom has naught to do with music at all, since these fuckers barely regurgitate the sounds and forms of the last century in the name of their music, having left what matters the most untouched; A FUCKING MESSAGE that they share with their peers.

Before I conclude, it is important that I connect this episode of Modern Malady to the concept of Map of the Universe.

The dichotomy of matter and idea, body and soul serves me well to illustrate the use of the system called the Map of the Universe.

In a nutshell, idea is infinite, the matter limited, material futile, earthly body that dies is nothing but the passage of time in life, in our material form, on the other hand, of course, the spirit is beyond all knowable forms, therefore infinite, is force that resounds through anything that moves you, makes you feel. Deny that equation, if you can.

The degree of liberation or enslavement reigns through any deed, anything shared, offered and exchanged.

It is by choice that this deed is committed and the crime is truly against the mind, in particular against the mind of youth. I concern myself with the communication of this to my peers.

For this fucking reason, let me state again that the revolution of the mind is the only viable revolution and I am the one who is gonna force you to enter inside your minds on the Map of the Universe.