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It's very simple, our personal problems are buried in ourselves, not in the music. We can say part of the personal problems are on some levels related to the music, yes but that's not the only substance of which our problems are made of.

You are talking about getting out and acting, music is an awesome part of any grassroots movement. Festivals can generate large funds as fundraisers to actually do things which is what you were getting at no? The artists will fight in their own way, the warriors in their own way. The bankers in their way. All classes and parts of society will have an active battlefield or way to peacefully combat what seeks to oppress them, and we all share that problem.

Often the music tells us we cannot really change anything, and that life really sucks, so just be douche and psychic vampire to everyone around you. Let alone that hallmark love or absolute whoredom that is now love thanks to the music and movie industry. Of course there is politics in music as well. Speaking of how powerful music and sound is, watch a movie with the sound off. Not very impressive is it. With sound it is something a little more real, but add music and it changes everything.

All in all whatever. I don't see how bad mouthing a form of combat is doing anything positive. They are acting. You are not and saying they aren't. However:

We can't change the world by playing guitars and singing beautiful songs about love. What we can do is change ourself only.

So playing guitars and singing can only change yourself? Again I would debate that, but you continue with this:

By doing that we'll change the collective consciousness of this civilization.

So I don't really need to debate it. Music created from freedom gives you a chance to experience that freedom the artist feels. Nothing really wrong with that, and as I said the experience can be very powerful, and sure it can change one person definately. I hear that alot after concerts, when someone who never has been to one, is literally changed after the show. It is like the music showed them doors or even opened a few for them.

Music created to trap, ensnare, or brainwash does just that. If you look at any major media medium, they always repeat whatever is successful in A) Money and B)Achieving their goal in what the film was to do. Again films the major studios support, are not made by them, at least not all, and so they support artists who suit their needs. No different in music and this has been used against us for a long time. The battle has been strong since the 50's when artists began to break molds and start to actually create and act with true musical freedom in their art form.

Again, all I can really say is that music is an excellent ally to any revolution. Especially one in which the fight seems to be about what it is to be free and to be a human being living free on this planet. The freedoms of expressions and artforms. The freedom to think.

Musashi's 5 Rings. Before you cut down society and efforts made in different parts, understand it and all the roles properly before you rattle off against the peaceful people or something you don't see as effective or important because you simply don't understand it.

After all, what should the artists do if their form is so lame or innefective? Become lawyers or something?