Stoney

Aside from the fact that "songs with high technical content but also pleasant to listen to" and "the very thrashy riffs" are two gems.

A beautiful record, really!

Yes, yes, I understand what you're saying... in the end, perhaps this is exactly what depresses me: talking to people who don't want to take risks and are content with what they have without being able to imagine something better. And by "taking risks," I certainly don't mean climbing mountains; it would be enough to try to change things just a little bit, which really isn't much of a risk when you think about it. Yet, so many people are satisfied to grovel at the feet of the latest son of a bitch in exchange for food, half rent, and a small car (maybe). We're not in the Middle Ages; we know what human dignity is now, we even have crusades and justify wars for such things, I don’t understand how people accept such compromises. The real risk is getting used to being treated poorly and having nothing, and you tend to find valid reasons to justify it or to accept it anyway. The most common excuse is "that's how things are today," or "in life, you need to sacrifice," phrases that instantly make me nauseous, because they are said with an air of false awareness as if they were some sort of irrefutable truths when in reality they only conceal resignation and a certain sense of slimy comfort. I quote a line from an Italian rap group, then I'll wrap up this monstrous Off-Topic: "the world is not ruled by money or sex, but by the unwillingness to face that sense of discomfort you feel when a new possibility presents itself."

"Imagine a golden rain falling on the faces of smiling people holding hands." Damn, could it be that Sardella is one of those maniacs excited by extreme fetish?

Just today, speaking with a colleague, I said, "Well, I could totally change my job and start doing something else; I can't spend my whole life in an office in front of a computer." And the response was, "What else do you want to do besides this?" with a bewildered look. Work makes us slaves. The world changes through awareness and imagination, dear Ezekiel. The whole work thing, the more time passes, seems to me like an excuse thrown out there for those who want a "serious" statement without pushing their imagination. Of course, everyone has their own ideas. Until next time, and excuse me for the side note.

@Ezekiel, unfortunately, your argument has a fundamental flaw that almost everyone seems to suffer from these days. By constantly saying that democracy is wrong, one ends up giving trust to a handful of charlatans who convince everyone that they are different from the usual, that they act for the common good, that they don't get lost in chatter, and then we all know very well what they actually do. Power concentrated in the hands of a few is not different from a dictatorship, as I see it, and to those who have the courage to say that a dictatorship or an oligarchy would be less hypocritical than what exists now, I respond that in the meantime THIS system gives you the chance to think contrarily and still allows a bit of nonconformity; I don't know if that would be possible in a different regime, in fact, I know it wouldn't be. Moreover, how fallacious is the phrase "few but good," a cliché with little or no meaning. Behind these discourses that exalt "true values," there is a strong desire to say something right, claiming to be those who still believe in the "good things of the past," yet there is no attempt at reflection. While it is understandable that one must fight for freedom and for "values," since no one possesses revealed truth, true freedom, at least ideally, is achieved when most members of a society participate in the collective life of their community, and not when they are excluded in favor of an elite. It seems obvious to me. Then, if we want to believe in easy slogans, that's another matter.

Yes, everything is very nice, but how do you determine who those "few but good" are? And then "good" in relation to what?

I forgot the vote

P.S. The review is amusing and at times also touching.

Comment 284: one of the few intelligent comments read on this site.