Bassnectar - Inspire the Empathic

From the album "Mesmerizing the Ultra".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bassnectar


I think you are right undoubtedly that most people seem to be accepting the war on terrorism
But i believe that acceptance is very superficial-
Very thin.
I believe it's based on the fact that people do not have information given to them by the media. Let me give one example...

The Federal Communications Commission regulates radio and TV, telephone and satellite transmissions.
The concentration of media in the hands of fewer and fewer corporations isn't a new story but the changes in the last two decades have been remarkable.

In 1983 90% of the major media were controlled by just 50 companies.
By 1992 that number had been cut in half to just two dozen companies.

And by 2000, the overwhelming majority of the mass media was owned by only 6 companies:

AOL TIME WARNER
DISNEY
BURGLES-MAN
VIACOM
NEWS CORPORATION
VEVENDI UNIVERSAL


**Clear Channel Communications**


What you don't want

Is to have so few owners in a community
That they can dominate the dialogue
And move it in any direction they might want to move it in without having the alternative
Of competing ideas to ensure that there are diverse owners of media.

The founders of this country figured out that there was only one way to have fairness in media-
To make it possible for ordinary people to create media.

That means that it isn't in the hands of very large corporations.

**Clear Channel Communications**

...but locally owned, locally produced and relates to the folks that are consuming it.

That's the answer.
And right now we have a set of changes that will move us in exactly the wrong direction;
Being considered.
And still the vast majority of Americans know nothing about it.

3/4 of Americans had absolutely no idea whatsoever.
People who did actually know about it were almost universally opposed.

AMERICANS HAD ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA WHATSOEVER
People do not have information given to them by the media.

We have enormous freedom.
That's not a gift that was given to us it's a legacy that was left to us
by centuries of struggle- by centuries of people who most of whose names are completely forgotten...
The ones who created the freedom and the rights that we now have,

And that will be taken away unless you constantly defend them.
There is in fact a major effort to take them away right now?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clear_Channel_Communications
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Walt_Disney_Company
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_Time_Warner
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_Corporation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viacom

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[ramjamz99]

125 people NEEDS to turn OFF FOX NEW'S

[5cr3wl00pZ]

ILLUMINATI

[Manny6695Ftw]

Pepole who disliked, you must not have been listening this is how the world is being run by corps who don't show the facts of the country .. props for free speech

[jreynoldswrap]

@kaliu6 Bassnectar is trying to arm it's fans with knowledge, and you're taking this great gift and wasting it. Pathetic.

[jreynoldswrap]

@100Ruffneck Fail on you for not listening to this wisdom.

[pleXusmikamusix]

the world will balance out... for we will make it so.

[hard5tyl3freak]

@heavyd4618 wikipedia is down



[xdk991]

FUCK ALL THE MAINSTREAM, WE ALL NEED TO WAKE UP..

[heavyd4618]

Time Warner

The Walt Disney Corporation

Bertelsmann

Viacom

News Corporation

Vivendi Universal

Wiki all this companies and read up. It's fucked up,

[MultiSilentNoise]

@5cr3wl00pZ Have you noticed the Eye of Providence Bassnectar has used in his last two albums? Coincidence? Sell out? His appreciation of the eye and how it connects people as one? Just asking, its been on my mind

[rosco762]

I would not mind paying for an album by these guys with tracks just like this. I makes you really think.

[Live2Katv3]

yo I'm a journalist and i am all about what this song is saying. Historically speaking like in the 60's there were literally hundreds upon hundreds of different journals, magazines, and newspapers. Most of them independantly operated publishing information with intent and purpose, like a thesis. Today, so few companies operate within a mono-culture on a global scale. The pen is mightier then the sword, but he who owns the presses/new stations tv&radio, writes history.  It's time to organize!