Wednesday 14 August 2013

Gerald Celente: The Power of Music - Power of Art

Jeff Rense interviews Trends Forecaster Gerald Celente 14 August 2013

Warning: for those who may find the language and topics covered here rather strong. They are merely opinions by two commentators speaking freely. I happen to enjoy some 'rap' music. It was the Verdi bit at the end that struck me.

A Conversation That Inspired A Coney Weston Art Exhibition: 39:00 mins onwards: Verdi... http://www.trendsresearch.com/SubscriberArea/gerald-celente-jeff-rense-show-august-14-2013 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sXpCx90fuc  

Celente: It’s a plantation economy; the corporations are the plantations you work for. Unlike the plantations where you had to house and feed them, you don’t have to do that anymore. You just use ‘em up and spit ‘em out.  

Rense: The age of expendability.  

Celente: How about the art of self respect? I’m a researcher, I have to go to malls, see what’s going on. What a sad, sad scene. Looking at all these young kids, dressed like pigs and as heavy as pigs... I cannot believe seeing young boys and girls in their early teens being so grossly fat and dressed like slobs. The human spirit has to change.  

Rense: When you see on the outside; tattoos, piercings, dead eyes, obese bodies, ugly clothing, dirty clothing, unkempt people... is that a reflection of the inner workings of the mind and psyche or is it a reflection of social engineering and peer pressure? The answer is all of the above. And a surgically grafted smart phone in their damned hand... if they don’t get a message, I’m willing to wager the pressure is so intense, people loose feelings of self worth if they are not being contacted by someone at a very fast pace in their lives. It’s an amphetamine lifestyle, audio, video, text phone, cell phone...  

Celente: They’re calling rap music. Call it what you want, it’s not music; there’s no instruments in it, it’s techno... a way of making a statement without doing anything. Let me show you how angry I am... expressing individuality without ever doing a damn thing to make change....... It’s a freak show out there as I see it and until people find self respect within themselves, nothing is going to change... and when I talk of respect, look at the clowns running for political office... Over here in New York you got this guy Spitzer. This is a guy born 3rd base and thought he had a triple... his father’s a real estate magnet. He passes the John Law; if you get caught with a hooker you get busted.
[ Anti-John law is a criminal-law statute enacted for punishing prostitutes’ customers. Anti-John laws impose stiffer penalties for the prostitutes’ clients or customers (johns) who in the past usually got off with an equivalent of a traffic ticket. The purpose of this law is to cut off traffic in minors, get rid of the prostitutes and the most harmful aspect of this trade.]
He gets caught with a $3,000 a night hooker and now he’s running for controller. Then you got this guy Weiner... you can’t make it up! Anthony Weiner, the guy who shows his pecker on FacBook, under his underwear, and now he’s running for mayor. You look at this guy... he’s a freak!  

Rense: Well, we live in a freak culture.  

Celente: Now let’s go back to the opera. I went to see Rigoletto. Verdi’s main objective in composing the music that he did, was to raise the spirit of the Italian people so they would rise up against their oppressors. He did it with music. In the 1800’s, Italy was controlled by... Germany had a piece, Austria had a piece, Hungary, France, Spain... a lot of people had a piece of Italy. It was almost a bloodless revolution. It worked. The model exists. He did it with music... calm the savage breast. You know; the power of music. And people don’t realise it, just like they don’t want to admit they took the lowest common denominator of society, the gangsters, the most violent criminals in the penal system that they wouldn’t give shoe laces to or belts because they would strangle you with them and they made a fashion and a music statement out of it... just as they used music to raise the culture, they used it to destroy it and it worked. Footnote: "The Secret Meeting that Changed Rap Music and Destroyed a Generation": http://www.hiphopisread.com/2012/04/secret-meeting-that-changed-rap-music.html?m=1