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:o I did find something that supports the general point though: http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,1428150,00.html "Although opium prices fell considerably between 2003 and 2004 they remain above $100 (£52) a kg - far higher than any other cash crop - and a crucial...

Yes it indeed complicates questions of morality. What could be said perhaps, is that drug addicts become addicted by deciding themselves to take drugs, knowing the risk of becoming addicted. Their own choice, to a certain degree. Many patients in need of medicines cannot be 'blamed' for their...

Agreed, I also said this in my second post in the other thread. Homegrown cannabis is fine with me. It is immoral to me, in the current situation I don't think opium farming is the only potential source of income of farmers. If you look at Afghanistan, under the Taliban they were the largest...

We certainly don't need drugs as much as petrol in the current system. While even the need for petrol is debatable on the longer term, it's not feasible to abandon petrol today. But that does not mean we cannot influence what our petrol money is used for. Large groups of people did boycott Shell...

I agree. But, for example, buying Colombian coke does encroach on the freedom of the people ruthlessly killed by Colombian militias funded with your drug money. Same with Birmese amphetamines etc.

Maybe, but I’m talking about buying drugs here and now, not in a hypothetical situation of legalized fair-trade harddrugs. People are responsible for what they knowingly pay for. Everybody knows that if you buy drugs, you are funding criminal activity, which more often than not means violence...

Yes, gotta catch some sleep now but see you tomorrow then!

Yes, and let's not use that horrible word 'reverse racism'.

Unless you buy bio food, shoes and clothing from moral companies etc. It's all possible, but almost nobody cares about this. It's more important to buy coffee 0.50 euro cheaper than paying a fair price so the farmer and his family can get a better life, education for the kids and so on. The rich...

Thanks, thats great. I'll order the Wergo Silver Apples right away and put the Modes on my wishlist.

Using drugs is not immoral? Buying drugs means sponsoring a whole system of exploitation, hate, violence, murder, rape. It means destroying individuals, families, economies, countries. It means funding violence and stimulating repressive laws and police actions. Funding dictatorial regimes...

Yes, perhaps a distinction could be made between 'racism' and 'racial discrimination'. Racism: the belief/ideology. Racial discrimination: the practice.

Do you by any chance know if Silver Apples and/or Wild Bull will be reissued as well? I was about to buy the Wergo cd but if there will be a remaster...

I think it is not necessarily about causing offense. Isn't the racism sometimes so ingrained in a society that victims agree with it, like Indian lower castes who truly believed that they were lower beings and hence did not feel offended but rather accepted it as a natural order?

Yeah I think so, or at least one of those tracks, 'I Wanna Be There', which is also on Deep Space, but in a shorter version. 'Starlight' is magnificent indeed! I know it from Deep Space but I saw that the twelve also has a Maurizio remix. Must investigate! ;) btw The new Monolake album is just...

The Chemical Brothers 'Lost In The K-Hole' off 'Dig Your Own Hole' Placebo 'Special K' off 'Black Market Music'

Moritz engineered 5 tracks on Juan Atkins' Model 500 'Deep Space' album. You can clearly hear his musical influence. Recommended.

Absolutely terrible lyrics if I understand them correctly. It doesn't sound like they are delivered with irony, like in Pharaohe Monch 'Simon Says'. I won't buy this shit for the same reason I won't buy crunk, snoop dogg etc. Fuck those ignorant, misogynic fools glamourizing drugsdealing and...

I heard my first jungle via MTV: first M-beat 'Incredible' etc (hated it), then Goldie 'Inner City Life' (loved it) Plus I read about it in music magazines. I bought some cd's and some was played on a late night radio show. Then they started to play it in a local club sometimes, and at a music...

Music as just entertainment, a depoliticized and desensitized commodity? I think this is indeed the general idea about music nowadays. This locks heavily into the 'will youth be fooled again' thread.