Oh my ! Your presence here, Mr. Donat ? I never suspected that would happen. Never. For the rest, you deserve it. The experience of writing something that moves into the world and touches people, it's unique, I suppose. And you are a catchy songwriter/arranger. We look forward to listening your new album, "Zerschöpfung". Big thank for stopping by. Sorry if I seem overly solemn, this is so unexpected ! Thank you so much for your music.
Yes, it's indeed a unique feeling, and I'm beyond grateful that my music reaches people. It baffles me every time, when I find out that videos were made for my audios. 🙏 Also, making music is a process that requires a lot of persistence in times of struggles - sometimes while recording or mixing/mastering songs the feeling of self-doubt comes up, I think back of certain comments or reactions and it motivates me to keep going. Thanks for being a part of this.
I gave a glowing music review for Vlimmer's "Menschenleere" when it first released, so I keep one eye open, just waiting for Alex Donat to release anything new. He really know how to ask those deeper metaphysical questions, but it was Carl Jung who embraced the notion of "Self" and the "Shadow Self" catering to our dualistic nature. His ground breaking philosophy changed me, because I don't really consider Sigmund Freud's concepts of "Ego", "Super-Ego" and "Id" grounded enough to participate in the overall discussion. Freud's "over-sexed" concepts are fairly weak and flimsy, when compared to discussing both ideas of "Good" and "Evil". Jung states, that we must consciously engage with the "Shadow Self" in order to bring balance to our overall person, which was perfect because I'm still very much a Goth/Industrial/EBM music aficionado. When we embrace the dark, then we become more complete and are much less fearful of it. The alternative is to hide our dark desires, saying "I'm a 'Good' person who wants to become 'Godly' " ― However, this can and often does backfire back onto society. The United States houses the most incarcerations nationwide, when compared to other globalized nation's. Why.... ??? Are there more "Evil Doer's".... ??? ― No, there is not, but it's an industry, and like all industries, it serves a supply and demand. Jung's ideas about "Self" are much more intricately detailed and it allows for more variants to be explored. People are so self-absorbed about staying "Good"; they eventually become "Evil" themselves. The fight between both issues become a moot point in itself. I openly play with my "Shadow" by going to Goth/Industrial clubs and dance, besides they are so loud that I can sing the lyrics and nobody knows it 😈🖤😈. The darker things in life can be much more fun, like; bats, black cats, casket furniture, driving a classic Hurst around town, makeup on men, kilts, sexy 40-hole combat boots, shiny stiletto-head shoes, etc. I also trust Goth's implicitly because of this reason, but also because the Underground Subculture encourages brutal honesty, so there can never be any mistaking a comment or remark for something that it isn't. For the most part, Goth's are gentle and kind ― Except in those nasty "Hollywood goth clubs" where all the tourist's go, just so they can say they went to one whenever they return home. No serious Goth, endeavors to darken their doorways for this reason; but, because people can be so stupid there, I inevitably get into argument or the occasional fight. I guess that's me, almost to a flaw; but, it's always nice to write or speak with someone who's genuinely deep, as well as intellectual. This may sound like a snobbishly elitist feeling to write, but I despise "small-talk" and having to "dumb-down" complex concepts when someone wants to enter the conversation. My old Architecture mentor and friend use to say: "If you can't see it, when you look at it ― That's too bad, because you never will" ― R. L. Peacock When everyone said I couldn't do something, he would say, "Prove them wrong.... !!!!", but the man was a father too me. Once, while in deep concentration making a presentation model, I called him "Papa" and in his calm demeanor he instantly replied "mon fils" later it turned into "Bobanue" (a cute nickname), but he having grown up in the French speaking part Louisiana's swamps found the softness in a harsh world. I grew-up in Silicon Valley, still the Technology Capital of the world, during the 80's. When I saw bits and pieces of the first Apply commercial, which remains the most expensive television ad ever created. Steve Jobs famously spent 2 million dollars of his own money to set-build, direct, and hire everyone to make a brilliant commercial. When I first saw it, I was in the kitchen with my mother, and we were simply amazed and addicted to watching it. Nobody had a computer, but we knew what it was and I knew its evolution would change the entire world. Just before Google had its Initial Public Offering (IPO) stock, I borrowed $10K from my mentor and he knew I could see ideas that worked like Google's search engine concept, so he also set aside $50K for the investment also. They day after, when the stock exploded and people were instant millionaire's, he walked calmly into the office after lunch and said: "Bobanue.... !!!! ― You're too damn smart to work for anybody ― Other than yourself.... !!!!" He handed me the legal paperwork and he signed the Architecture firm over to me and retired that day. His stock allowed him to retire, where he designed and built a Victorian mansion next to the sea. Such a soul comes along only once in a generation, but now I'm starting to cry. I deeply miss him. He understood the "Self", "Shadow Self" and as well in "Selfness-less".
Meaning whatever is left, whatever happens to be sturdier than our "Shadow Self" - it was not meant to last forever in the world, the real one. We have to deal with both sides, with our dualistic nature, because the real world is not the land of Oz. Yet, Hydra, the real world becomes less and less real. The notion of "Self" gave way to "selfie". The notion of "Shadow Self" gave way to "shadow banking". We live in an age where traders with the fastest execution speeds are more profitable than those with slower execution speeds. All right, all right, like every technological revolution since the invention of the loom, this speed race between algoritms, financial mathematics, management and profit, destroyed whole sectors of the economy. Millions of jobs disappeared and more were created. The mathematical balance is at an equilibrium, in principle, or even positive. But what we call progress is not only technological ; it is also social, cultural, and moral. Where are ethics, morals, and common sense in all this ? Skepticism, I know, has always accompanied the cascade of new technology since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. "New jobs push out old ones, new values take the place of traditions, my boy !" OK. But is progress in machines necessarily progress in civilization ? For instance, in the decade after 1810, English weavers inspired by the character Ned Ludd destroyed new spinning machines. In France, Les canuts (the silk workers of Lyon) did the same thing in 1831. Today, since June 2022, Euronext's data servers (the Paris Stock Exchange) have been located in Bergamo, Italy ; before this move, they were located in Basildon, a London suburb… Where’s reality, my friend ? Where’s the “Twilight Zone” ? Will the data servers soon meet the same neo-Luddites and machine-destroyers ? Maybe here we are touching on what is really at stake : How can we save the Internet from itself, and protect ourselves from its most destructive aspects ? Social media destroys culture in the traditional sense ; rather than read, we surf online. Rather than learn, we fall back on Wiki. We no longer read newspapers, instead replacing them with rumors spread on social media. We no longer inform ourselves ; we prefer closet-theories that encourage Internet addicts (that we are) to believe that we know the secrets of the world hidden from us by journalists. As a result of this dynamiting of verified knowledge and information, falsehood has become the equivalent of truth, and the virtual is as good as the real. Since everyone has a platform, and everyone dreams of becoming an influencer, narcisism has replaced life in society. Yes, we definitively are in the Twilight Zone. Rod Serling himself would have been overwhelmed. Look here, my friend, we are two city boys, you and I. Are we a little enlightened on the situation, however ? Are we more desensitized to it, simply because you almost have to inoculate yourself against certain things in order to not walk this earth with a constantly-aching heart ? The older I get, the more I understand that we cannot escape the transmission of the stories that came before us. That being said, identifying ourselves through the pasts of others is an inverse illusion. We have a past ; we are not our past. Or maybe we are. Because I’m sure your "father" (bless his heart) understood the "Selfness-less". I see it in you every time. I see him in you. I hear him. Thanks for being here, both of you. Thanks for being real, Bobanue. Thanks for speaking plainly. Kisses.
@@ratepelade6838 It's also a rare thing to speak with someone who "Get's It.... !!!!" All of a sudden there's been an explosion of talk about the "Sigma Male" everywhere, like it were the missing link between Homo-sapiens and Apes. "What the name Homo sapiens means. The name we selected for ourselves means 'wise human'. Homo is the Latin word for 'human' or 'man' and sapiens is derived from a Latin word that means 'wise' or 'astute'." That's a little ironic to consider most of the 6.89 billion people on this tiny Earth, could refer to themselves as a "wise human".... ??? Yes, we are both definitely "city boys" ― However, when I hear the next evolution of humanity is supposed to be all things "Sigma", most people don't understand that true Sigma's make their own rules as they go throughout life. When I earned a Master's degree in Psychology, I already knew who I was. I don't like the rules, but I'll follow them, out of a sense of what is right ― Ethics. I'm also deeply empathic, so I do stay away from the crowd, or, from the Sony offices because I can feel: The tension of everyone wanting advancement; an unhealthy competition; the self-sabotage, as well as the outward sabotage of others; ego's larger that the Hindenburg; along with all the variant's in between the equation's unending numerical values. I'm sure now ― You're a Sigma also.... !!!! We seem to just 'get' each other with very few words. Yes, we can both write out a page like the wind, but we mean what we say ― Aside from the occasionally extraneous factoid, which is just in our nature to acknowledge such things. Most people don't understand me, in my everyday seclusion, but the world is an extremely loud environment, but so much of what you said, my friend, is simply "spot on". I accept technology; however, I'm not seduced by it either. I try to stay up-to-date on technology, but I don't and won't get a smartphone. Do you know how many people die, because they can't put it away. I hardly ever use the word "stupid" ― However, I've made an exception just for those people. I'm only thinking about dying, because I fell down an open manhole on the street, and me, trying to explain it to the Arch-Angel Gabriel without him laughing me out of Heaven.... !!!! I've been writing some of my very own theoretical, ethical, and philosophical groundwork, some of which you wrote about, so eloquently. I've got a strange instinct that you do as well.... ??? I still have to type most of it out ― By Myself. But, I believe you'd enjoy reading it.... ??? I'm a little protective, since I secretly use the Nom De Plume: "Johannas Gigan Prudt" ― After, I already de-activated my "cloud storage" protocol on all my computers. I began to get email's referring to me by my aforementioned Nom De Plume. The sneaky things technology can do.... ??? Perhaps the greater question is ― " 'Who', or, 'What' " did it....??? ― Gros câlins et Merci mon Bijou Lumineux
Great! Where did you publish your review? I'm sure I read it, but I can't seem to connect your name with it. Thanks for your warm words, though, I'm happy you enjoy my music, and I hope you like the new album.
Wow, thank you so, so much for the video! Cheers from Berlin
Oh my ! Your presence here, Mr. Donat ? I never suspected that would happen. Never. For the rest, you deserve it. The experience of writing something that moves into the world and touches people, it's unique, I suppose. And you are a catchy songwriter/arranger. We look forward to listening your new album, "Zerschöpfung". Big thank for stopping by. Sorry if I seem overly solemn, this is so unexpected ! Thank you so much for your music.
Yes, it's indeed a unique feeling, and I'm beyond grateful that my music reaches people. It baffles me every time, when I find out that videos were made for my audios. 🙏 Also, making music is a process that requires a lot of persistence in times of struggles - sometimes while recording or mixing/mastering songs the feeling of self-doubt comes up, I think back of certain comments or reactions and it motivates me to keep going. Thanks for being a part of this.
F.A.N.T.A.S.T.I.C.
T.H.A.N.K.S., Dave.
I gave a glowing music review for Vlimmer's "Menschenleere" when it first released, so I keep one eye open, just waiting for Alex Donat to release anything new. He really know how to ask those deeper metaphysical questions, but it was Carl Jung who embraced the notion of "Self" and the "Shadow Self" catering to our dualistic nature. His ground breaking philosophy changed me, because I don't really consider Sigmund Freud's concepts of "Ego", "Super-Ego" and "Id" grounded enough to participate in the overall discussion. Freud's "over-sexed" concepts are fairly weak and flimsy, when compared to discussing both ideas of "Good" and "Evil". Jung states, that we must consciously engage with the "Shadow Self" in order to bring balance to our overall person, which was perfect because I'm still very much a Goth/Industrial/EBM music aficionado. When we embrace the dark, then we become more complete and are much less fearful of it.
The alternative is to hide our dark desires, saying "I'm a 'Good' person who wants to become 'Godly' " ― However, this can and often does backfire back onto society. The United States houses the most incarcerations nationwide, when compared to other globalized nation's. Why.... ??? Are there more "Evil Doer's".... ??? ― No, there is not, but it's an industry, and like all industries, it serves a supply and demand. Jung's ideas about "Self" are much more intricately detailed and it allows for more variants to be explored. People are so self-absorbed about staying "Good"; they eventually become "Evil" themselves. The fight between both issues become a moot point in itself.
I openly play with my "Shadow" by going to Goth/Industrial clubs and dance, besides they are so loud that I can sing the lyrics and nobody knows it 😈🖤😈. The darker things in life can be much more fun, like; bats, black cats, casket furniture, driving a classic Hurst around town, makeup on men, kilts, sexy 40-hole combat boots, shiny stiletto-head shoes, etc. I also trust Goth's implicitly because of this reason, but also because the Underground Subculture encourages brutal honesty, so there can never be any mistaking a comment or remark for something that it isn't. For the most part, Goth's are gentle and kind ― Except in those nasty "Hollywood goth clubs" where all the tourist's go, just so they can say they went to one whenever they return home. No serious Goth, endeavors to darken their doorways for this reason; but, because people can be so stupid there, I inevitably get into argument or the occasional fight.
I guess that's me, almost to a flaw; but, it's always nice to write or speak with someone who's genuinely deep, as well as intellectual. This may sound like a snobbishly elitist feeling to write, but I despise "small-talk" and having to "dumb-down" complex concepts when someone wants to enter the conversation. My old Architecture mentor and friend use to say:
"If you can't see it, when you look at it ― That's too bad, because you never will" ― R. L. Peacock
When everyone said I couldn't do something, he would say, "Prove them wrong.... !!!!", but the man was a father too me. Once, while in deep concentration making a presentation model, I called him "Papa" and in his calm demeanor he instantly replied "mon fils" later it turned into "Bobanue" (a cute nickname), but he having grown up in the French speaking part Louisiana's swamps found the softness in a harsh world.
I grew-up in Silicon Valley, still the Technology Capital of the world, during the 80's. When I saw bits and pieces of the first Apply commercial, which remains the most expensive television ad ever created. Steve Jobs famously spent 2 million dollars of his own money to set-build, direct, and hire everyone to make a brilliant commercial. When I first saw it, I was in the kitchen with my mother, and we were simply amazed and addicted to watching it. Nobody had a computer, but we knew what it was and I knew its evolution would change the entire world.
Just before Google had its Initial Public Offering (IPO) stock, I borrowed $10K from my mentor and he knew I could see ideas that worked like Google's search engine concept, so he also set aside $50K for the investment also. They day after, when the stock exploded and people were instant millionaire's, he walked calmly into the office after lunch and said:
"Bobanue.... !!!! ― You're too damn smart to work for anybody ― Other than yourself.... !!!!" He handed me the legal paperwork and he signed the Architecture firm over to me and retired that day. His stock allowed him to retire, where he designed and built a Victorian mansion next to the sea. Such a soul comes along only once in a generation, but now I'm starting to cry. I deeply miss him.
He understood the "Self", "Shadow Self" and as well in "Selfness-less".
Meaning whatever is left, whatever happens to be sturdier than our "Shadow Self" - it was not meant to last forever in the world, the real one. We have to deal with both sides, with our dualistic nature, because the real world is not the land of Oz. Yet, Hydra, the real world becomes less and less real. The notion of "Self" gave way to "selfie". The notion of "Shadow Self" gave way to "shadow banking". We live in an age where traders with the fastest execution speeds are more profitable than those with slower execution speeds. All right, all right, like every technological revolution since the invention of the loom, this speed race between algoritms, financial mathematics, management and profit, destroyed whole sectors of the economy. Millions of jobs disappeared and more were created. The mathematical balance is at an equilibrium, in principle, or even positive. But what we call progress is not only technological ; it is also social, cultural, and moral. Where are ethics, morals, and common sense in all this ?
Skepticism, I know, has always accompanied the cascade of new technology since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. "New jobs push out old ones, new values take the place of traditions, my boy !" OK. But is progress in machines necessarily progress in civilization ? For instance, in the decade after 1810, English weavers inspired by the character Ned Ludd destroyed new spinning machines. In France, Les canuts (the silk workers of Lyon) did the same thing in 1831. Today, since June 2022, Euronext's data servers (the Paris Stock Exchange) have been located in Bergamo, Italy ; before this move, they were located in Basildon, a London suburb… Where’s reality, my friend ? Where’s the “Twilight Zone” ? Will the data servers soon meet the same neo-Luddites and machine-destroyers ?
Maybe here we are touching on what is really at stake : How can we save the Internet from itself, and protect ourselves from its most destructive aspects ? Social media destroys culture in the traditional sense ; rather than read, we surf online. Rather than learn, we fall back on Wiki. We no longer read newspapers, instead replacing them with rumors spread on social media. We no longer inform ourselves ; we prefer closet-theories that encourage Internet addicts (that we are) to believe that we know the secrets of the world hidden from us by journalists. As a result of this dynamiting of verified knowledge and information, falsehood has become the equivalent of truth, and the virtual is as good as the real. Since everyone has a platform, and everyone dreams of becoming an influencer, narcisism has replaced life in society. Yes, we definitively are in the Twilight Zone. Rod Serling himself would have been overwhelmed.
Look here, my friend, we are two city boys, you and I. Are we a little enlightened on the situation, however ? Are we more desensitized to it, simply because you almost have to inoculate yourself against certain things in order to not walk this earth with a constantly-aching heart ? The older I get, the more I understand that we cannot escape the transmission of the stories that came before us. That being said, identifying ourselves through the pasts of others is an inverse illusion. We have a past ; we are not our past. Or maybe we are. Because I’m sure your "father" (bless his heart) understood the "Selfness-less". I see it in you every time. I see him in you. I hear him. Thanks for being here, both of you. Thanks for being real, Bobanue. Thanks for speaking plainly. Kisses.
@@ratepelade6838 It's also a rare thing to speak with someone who "Get's It.... !!!!" All of a sudden there's been an explosion of talk about the "Sigma Male" everywhere, like it were the missing link between Homo-sapiens and Apes.
"What the name Homo sapiens means. The name we selected for ourselves means 'wise human'. Homo is the Latin word for 'human' or 'man' and sapiens is derived from a Latin word that means 'wise' or 'astute'."
That's a little ironic to consider most of the 6.89 billion people on this tiny Earth, could refer to themselves as a "wise human".... ??? Yes, we are both definitely "city boys" ― However, when I hear the next evolution of humanity is supposed to be all things "Sigma", most people don't understand that true Sigma's make their own rules as they go throughout life. When I earned a Master's degree in Psychology, I already knew who I was. I don't like the rules, but I'll follow them, out of a sense of what is right ― Ethics. I'm also deeply empathic, so I do stay away from the crowd, or, from the Sony offices because I can feel: The tension of everyone wanting advancement; an unhealthy competition; the self-sabotage, as well as the outward sabotage of others; ego's larger that the Hindenburg; along with all the variant's in between the equation's unending numerical values.
I'm sure now ― You're a Sigma also.... !!!! We seem to just 'get' each other with very few words. Yes, we can both write out a page like the wind, but we mean what we say ― Aside from the occasionally extraneous factoid, which is just in our nature to acknowledge such things. Most people don't understand me, in my everyday seclusion, but the world is an extremely loud environment, but so much of what you said, my friend, is simply "spot on".
I accept technology; however, I'm not seduced by it either. I try to stay up-to-date on technology, but I don't and won't get a smartphone. Do you know how many people die, because they can't put it away. I hardly ever use the word "stupid" ― However, I've made an exception just for those people. I'm only thinking about dying, because I fell down an open manhole on the street, and me, trying to explain it to the Arch-Angel Gabriel without him laughing me out of Heaven.... !!!!
I've been writing some of my very own theoretical, ethical, and philosophical groundwork, some of which you wrote about, so eloquently. I've got a strange instinct that you do as well.... ??? I still have to type most of it out ― By Myself. But, I believe you'd enjoy reading it.... ???
I'm a little protective, since I secretly use the Nom De Plume: "Johannas Gigan Prudt" ― After, I already de-activated my "cloud storage" protocol on all my computers. I began to get email's referring to me by my aforementioned Nom De Plume. The sneaky things technology can do.... ???
Perhaps the greater question is ― " 'Who', or, 'What' " did it....???
― Gros câlins et Merci mon Bijou Lumineux
Great! Where did you publish your review? I'm sure I read it, but I can't seem to connect your name with it. Thanks for your warm words, though, I'm happy you enjoy my music, and I hope you like the new album.