Woebot
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Woke up this morning thinking that "Integrity" is the wrong grounds upon which to attack Maya. The real criteria is "Honour".
Lots of music has integrity. After all, all integrity is is maintaining internal coherence. The Clash have integrity for instance. Maya doesn't actually have integrity, the veneer of what she's trying to present wouldnt crack as it does if she did. But she nearly does.
More tricky is being honourable. Its not a case of morality, and only ethics in the most abstract sense. Its about aspiring to some kind of cosmic honesty. Me, in case you think I'm saying I'm honourable, i'm a slack fuck. I try to be honourable, but it gets a bit fuzzy round the edges. I'll plainly admit that when it comes to some things self-interest/political manoevring/habit takes over. See for instance I'm not prepared to give away all my worldy possesions and leave the first world (aka Babylon), cos I'm selfish.
But maybe, just maybe, admitting that I won't counts for something. Maybe Republicanism counts for something in this schema, admitting you're an oppressor, that the fabric of your existence IS dependent upon screwing other people over (people whose faces you never get to see)
What music is "honourable"? Well Grime is honourable, Dancehall is honourable etc. Of the kind of broad swathe of Rock/Electronica some is honourable. It tends to be only the most twisted (Woody Allen-style lol) intensely self-scrutineering bunch who manage to make "Honourable" music.
Lots of music has integrity. After all, all integrity is is maintaining internal coherence. The Clash have integrity for instance. Maya doesn't actually have integrity, the veneer of what she's trying to present wouldnt crack as it does if she did. But she nearly does.
More tricky is being honourable. Its not a case of morality, and only ethics in the most abstract sense. Its about aspiring to some kind of cosmic honesty. Me, in case you think I'm saying I'm honourable, i'm a slack fuck. I try to be honourable, but it gets a bit fuzzy round the edges. I'll plainly admit that when it comes to some things self-interest/political manoevring/habit takes over. See for instance I'm not prepared to give away all my worldy possesions and leave the first world (aka Babylon), cos I'm selfish.
But maybe, just maybe, admitting that I won't counts for something. Maybe Republicanism counts for something in this schema, admitting you're an oppressor, that the fabric of your existence IS dependent upon screwing other people over (people whose faces you never get to see)
What music is "honourable"? Well Grime is honourable, Dancehall is honourable etc. Of the kind of broad swathe of Rock/Electronica some is honourable. It tends to be only the most twisted (Woody Allen-style lol) intensely self-scrutineering bunch who manage to make "Honourable" music.