- 25 Feb 2024 15:34
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As I wrote earlier, the sounds of people talking loudly, moving around, and the sounds of animals and nature... are pleasant. Electronic bass sounds clashing with other electronic bass sounds is dystopic and hell-ish. Noise pollution also suppresses thought, and the people of the islands require all their wits to improve their economic situations.
What you are trying to brand as "the charming noisiness of the tropics" is actually "the nefarious effects of electronic devices." And the prevalence of electronic devices (and tropical noise-ophilia) means that Cuban kids can now watch TV on their phones all day, can animate public spaces with videogame noise and electronic music, and basically ruin their ability to think or concentrate on anything for long enough to come to conclusions.
Before electronic devices, one would need to get a group of friends together to play salsa. It would have been impossible to hear seven salsa bands playing on the street at one time in every hood. Today, this is the norm because of electronic devices. It is also possible to raise your children without talking to them very much by ... handing them a device to play with.
This is a disaster, but it was nice to see how this disaster plays out in a noise-positive culture.
Then peaceful reflection is impossible there. What a social disaster this is.
Muslims who follow the Muslim Brotherhood would call the resulting hellscape Jahiliyyah. Drunk, dumbed-down people listening to factory noise ("music") all day...
This has absolutely nothing to do with Cuba's communist system. The jahiliyyah of Cuba is a result of the history of the slave islands it is part of. Right? The killers of the local natives, kidnappers of African slaves... are unable to live peaceful, well-organized lives because... their countries were created out of human atrocities... created out of other people's hell.
Cubans, Dominicans and Puerto Ricans speak loudly, and with a lot of animation... the sounds of the tropics, which are coqui frogs, and crickets, birds and animals and people moving around a lot. It is not a quiet place. It never has been.
As I wrote earlier, the sounds of people talking loudly, moving around, and the sounds of animals and nature... are pleasant. Electronic bass sounds clashing with other electronic bass sounds is dystopic and hell-ish. Noise pollution also suppresses thought, and the people of the islands require all their wits to improve their economic situations.
What you are trying to brand as "the charming noisiness of the tropics" is actually "the nefarious effects of electronic devices." And the prevalence of electronic devices (and tropical noise-ophilia) means that Cuban kids can now watch TV on their phones all day, can animate public spaces with videogame noise and electronic music, and basically ruin their ability to think or concentrate on anything for long enough to come to conclusions.
Before electronic devices, one would need to get a group of friends together to play salsa. It would have been impossible to hear seven salsa bands playing on the street at one time in every hood. Today, this is the norm because of electronic devices. It is also possible to raise your children without talking to them very much by ... handing them a device to play with.
This is a disaster, but it was nice to see how this disaster plays out in a noise-positive culture.
Tainari88 wrote:...Puerto Rico and San Juan was a noise hell in the 1980s and in the late 1990s, and now and in the past. Loud dance music booming everywhere is NORMAL shit for us. Reggaeton and Bad Bunny pounding on your ears all the time and every merengue tune and loud stuff is the norm in that part of the world Q...
Then peaceful reflection is impossible there. What a social disaster this is.
Muslims who follow the Muslim Brotherhood would call the resulting hellscape Jahiliyyah. Drunk, dumbed-down people listening to factory noise ("music") all day...
This has absolutely nothing to do with Cuba's communist system. The jahiliyyah of Cuba is a result of the history of the slave islands it is part of. Right? The killers of the local natives, kidnappers of African slaves... are unable to live peaceful, well-organized lives because... their countries were created out of human atrocities... created out of other people's hell.
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The goal is to use Afghanistan to wash money out of the tax bases of the US and Europe through Afghanistan and back into the hands of a transnational security elite.
The goal is an endless war, not a successful war.
— Julian Assange