You're a cultivated person, luka - do you consider it a luxury? A "coarse, unfeeling" one?
On the other hand, what's so great about working in an office, from the point of view of helping out your fellow man?
Other than people working for charities, shelters, etc. most people with jobs are just as self-absorbed and self-interested as the shivering aristo.
I'd have to go back through this thread to see what you're getting at, though.
I mean, the "masses", with their rough hands are - I'd argue - much more interested in soulfulness than mechanistic music that replicates the dreary routine of their lives.
Not soulfulness in some sort of Romantic shuddering sense but in the sense of uplift, joy, passion. They're thirsting for it.
But maybe that's me being Victorian.
Stuck on the new Young Thug album and
"I got cars galore, lil' bitch, 'cause I'm rich
I escaped every one of the licks 'cause I was supposed to be rich"
I'm not sure, but I get the appeal on a gut level. I like the way Ballard describes cars, the way something like Hockney's A Bigger Splash looks, clean surfaces, chrome, the way the water looks in GTA.
I keep thinking about what Mark said via Deleuze in The Barthes of Parties,surface
Yeah, I dunno that we favour the same surfaces, but it's definitely there.a lot of your list, like craners, has a lot of surface