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>The noise, industrial, and esoteric circles are filled with people who have pretensions of knowing things about history, sociology, religion, philosophy, etc. But all they know is tiny smattering of fringe trivia. Robust knowledge on any of the topics they claim interest in is rare, and they have a stripped down cartoon view of history shorn of any and all context. It can be useful and enlightening to examine the fringes and the extremes and learn things about society from those, but a lot of people seem to ONLY be interested in the fringes and the extremes. To the point that they have no idea how it interacts with the larger social conversation or its place in this historical dialectic.

I would definitely agree here. The problem I think is not just that focus on the extremes; you can make good art out of the extremities of human experience, it's more the lack of depth, of any sort of intellectually serious engagement. I mean, there's two types of people interested in the occult and it's history; there's people who read books like this and this, and there's people who read books like this and this. The same with any 'dark' topic; murder, sexual fetishism, war and genocide, and so on and so on; the lurid and extreme attracts lurid and extreme writing, often penned by Garth Marenghi like characters who've 'written more books than they've read'. You need to be able to hack through the bullshit, and a lot of that comes, as you say, from having a knowledge of the broader history. I mean, I say this as someone who has made art books about true crime and the occult, for full disclosure.

> (and one single in particular, and you might know which one I mean) have REALLY put me on edge.

As you're American, I'm going to guess Klan Kountry, which I haven't heard actually. I only have a couple of their albums; unfortunately not only are they obviously either fascists or tasteless, they're not actually very good. Anenzephalia is a little better. Actually, looking at the details of that release, I can definitely see why you'd steer clear. In fact, most of the stuff on Tesco Organisation is kind of second rate, and I've heard bad things about the label generally. As for Deutsch Nepal, I'm really not sure; I've never read much about them, but the name seems to be a possible nod to Nazi mysticism, plus there's the use of swastika-like imagery on the covers of A Silent Siege and Erotikon. It's not that much, compared to some of the others, but enough perhaps.

> He would probably find it even more strange that he's so admired by a person like me who does My Little Pony fanart.

Now that, I'm sure s/he'd get completely; GPO knows the ins and outs of fannish obsession with h/er Brian Jones thing. Read the liner notes to Godstar: Thee Director's Cut sometime if you get a chance.

>I so agree. Coil...I used to be obsessed with them, and from 1999-2001 tried to gather up as much of their discography as I could. I think most of it is in my closet right now since our apartment doesn't have a lot of places to store cd's. One of my goals is to eventually go back and get as much of their complete discography as I can. I've been fascinated with them ever since I was in high school and read an interview in Trent Reznor in which he discussed how much they influenced his music. Something about what he said intrigued me, and when I finally heard them I was entranced.

My obsession goes back a similiar way for me, though I'm a touch younger than you I think...I started listening to Coil just in time for Jhon's death, but not that I could actually get to see them, which I will probably always regret. The footage of those late gigs... and of course the recordings...can you imagine having been there in the audience during the recording of ...And The Ambulance Died in His Arms? Just thinking about it gives me chills. I think they were just a perfect musical duo; Christopherson had a very sophisticated and innovative approach to electronic music, and Balance just had that...intensity. I think that's something that so many of the pale imitators in industrial and related things miss. It's one thing that has always made the best Current 93 stuff stand out to me as well; especially listening to some of the best live recordings, it's clear that, whatever else you might think about Dave Tibet (nutter, crypto-fascist, can't sing, too Christian, not Christian enough) he's really not phoning it in. His performance is so utterly demented and broken at times (Black Ships Ate The Sky is a great example) that personally I can't help but be compelled. Maybe that's a bit of a trick, but I don't think so.

>these guys actually knew a lot about art and music history, and understood a lot about modern art and why it was important. Even a guy as abrasive and intentionally silly and lo-fi as Monte Cazazza, I'm pretty sure, actually went to art school.

Yeah, Cazazza definitely went to art school; such an overlooked hero of early industrial for me. I love how damned entertaining he makes his cartoon misanthropy; If Thoughts Could Kill is a great song to listen to on the bus on a rainy morning. And of course, GPO and Cosey Fanni Tutti had been doing gallery shows and performance art as COUM Transmissions for years before TG was even a thing.

Corsair boards are quite well built, but they charge too much for what they offer. Great for people who like tons of macros, though.

Saves waiting two weeks for shipping from China, too.

China makes the best and the worst boards at the same time. On one side of the spectrum is the garbage budget gamer boards such as the Cool Snake, and on the other side are amazing, cheap, high quality boards such as the TADA68 and Anne Pro (somewhat).

Listen, I understand why you're skeptical, but I've read into this. This isn't some conspiracy I made up on my own.

The Dan Ryan is unique. Like I said, building the highway didn't create racial boundaries, it solidified existing ones. There are a number of books that touch on the subject. Namely, American Pharaoh, a super in-depth biography on Daley which details the project.

A book wholly worth checking out is The Price of Admission, which uses Jared Kushner as a case study of how the wealthy can subvert all types of academic rigor in order to get the correct looking resume.

I just hope that this whole process with Trump and Kavanaugh can snap people out of the whole meritocracy ideal once and for all, because god knows it's gotten us into a lot of trouble.

I'm not sure that comparison works, because the deal with Beats is that you can get something that sounds better for a lot less, while that's not true with Steam. (Though I wouldn't dare go outside wearing my favorite pair of headphones).

If you're really interested in it, this book is a good one. It's written by Mike Brown, whose team discovered Eris, another dwarf planet that turned out to be bigger than Pluto.

Basically, people who insist that Pluto is still a planet are taking a big old dump on his life's work.

Like succeeding against white culture is hard.

I'm a fan of Mark Farina (from the Mushroom Jazz series), Eve Falcon, DJ Krush, and Stephan Stéphane Pompougnac.

for example:

https://www.amazon.com/Hotel-Costes-8-Stephane-Pompougnac/dp/B000A1IK5G

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9jp7UrBtbM

https://soundcloud.com/eve-falcon

https://soundcloud.com/rusty_ash/dj-crush-code-4109-japan

Taoism? Not nearly as Dude-ist as, say, Zen Buddhism. The Dude was totally Zen (book link, not youtube).

Fuckers need to read A Midwife's Tale

Of course they'd come up with some elaborate explanation of how New England in the 1700's was the true origin of SJWs

I highly recommend How Star Wars Conquered the Universe by Chris Taylor.

It manages to be a respectful account of the history of Star Wars movies and fandom, without pulling any punches when it comes to the series' flaws, or those of its creators.

Have you tried reading this book? It explains the mindset of being a younger male back then. If you know that 3.5 million other Germans have already been sent to death camps for resisting, you'd probably get in line right next to everyone else, because, lets face it, that's what you'd be trained to do.

This book was a pretty insightful read that suggests exactly what you're thinking. Part of Steve Bannon's rise was through illegal gold farming operations. He realized that angry gamers on forums were a force waiting to be exploited.

Bigotry and Political Correctness are two different things. Bigotry is when you treat a person in a certain way (positive or negative) in whole or in part because of some trait that they cannot control. Political correctness is when you describe someone using language designed specifically to be inoffensive due to the lack of connotation. You can be a politically correct bigot who uses PC language to be an asshole, or a perfectly normal non-judgmental and non-bigoted person who doesn't care about the words that they use. One has to do with the actions that one takes, and the other has to do with language.

Let's break it down Disney-educational-video-style, in case you don't get what I'm trying to say.

This is Farmer Joe. Farmer Joe has recently suffered a string of losses. Let's hear what Farmer Joe has to say. "Them niggers are always stealing my watermelons". Oh, my, Farmer Joe! What you said... it sure sounds bigoted! Let's take a step back. Why does what Joe said sound so hateful? It's because of the word "nigger". You see, "nigger" means something other then just "black person", because of years and years of hateful use. Let's have Farmer Joe re-try that phrase, using this list of substitute words that mean similar things to the words that they are replacing, without carrying the same negative connotations. Farmer Joe- "Them persons of African descent are always stealing my watermelons." There, isn't that an improvement? It certainly sounds better when you don't use the word "nigger", now doesn't it? Well, that's incorrect. It shouldn't sound better, because Farmer Joe is still singling out an entire race of people because of their skin color, and calling them thieves. What should Farmer Joe actually say? Let's tell him. Farmer Joe, would you read this for us, please? Thank you. Farmer Joe- "Lots of my watermelons have been stolen recently." There, now Farmer Joe is saying the right thing. He is now only stating the pertinent facts, without including any language that hints at race.

Of course, it's not always possible to just state a fact without including racial or otherwise sensitive verbiage, because this is a complicated world. Let's meet with Mayor Paul. Mayor Paul, what is the thing that most threatens your city's security? Mayor Paul- "Black Gangs that rove the streets and cause property damage." Well, now, isn't that scary? Tell me, Mayor Paul, are there any non-black gangs that rove the streets and cause property damage? There are? Well, why did you say "black gangs". Oh, I see. It's because most of the black gangs are causing property damage, and only one non-black gang, a Latino gang, is engaging in similar behavior. You don't want to be a bigot, do you Mayor Paul? Of course not. You are simply stating fact, that it is specifically the black gangs causing a problem for some strange reason. Say, why don't you say it this way! Read from this sheet, Mayor! Mayor Paul- "The biggest problem is that gangs of racists are causing massive amounts of property damage." There, now you've stated the problem without singling one groups' race, as well as accused them of being bigots! It's not a perfect solution, but it's certainly politically correct!

Also, see http://www.amazon.com/Politically-Correct-Bedtime-Stories-Garner/dp/0285640410