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  1. Posted · Edited by chemicalpictures

    1 hour ago, CAT5 said:

    Here's how I look at it. I think Peterson is pretty brilliant. I don't agree with him on everything, but wisdom is certainly with him. Wisdom, however, belongs to no man. So I glean the bits of wisdom from him that I can and simply ignore the rest - "chew the meat and spit out the bones" - so to speak. I do this with everyone, though. Whether you're Jordan Peterson, one of my homeboys, or a complete stranger.

     

    Personally, I disagree with not giving Peterson a stage tho. Why? Cuz what he eats doesn't make me shit. Meaning, his words have no effect on my reality unless I allow them to. And I I'd be a fool to listen a white guy from rural Canada try to tell me about my experience as a nigga from the deep south of U.S.A, whose people were not only taken into slavery, but were also BORN into slavery, and suffered (and are suffering from) generations of trauma that's yet to be healed.

     

    To be honest I never went past his 12 rules book which I read out of curiosity right before his debate with Zizek ( which was a boring one if you ask me, Zizek seems too cynical to properly engage like younger Zizek would do), but I do understand your point and I think there's a lot of merit, even though it's not for me, that's just life.

     

    My point is that I do think that a lot of times when he steps outside the self-help small talk, he dives into some pretty dangerous thoughts, specially considering he knows who make up the majority of his public. For exemple, the several times he blatantly ignore systemic oppressions insisting on placing the root of problems on the lack of self improvement and it reverberates on a shit ton of people who makes life for everyone else really hard, that's when I have a problem with him having the stage. That's why I believe that, even though his words do not affect you (or me, or anyone else who doesn't want to) on a personal level, they are part of what validates some of the horrible circlejerk that  affects the life in society as a  whole.

     

    I fail to see how the (little, IMHO) value he brings to the table outwheights the bad, but that's just me. I am of the idea that society is on the verge of a profound collapse, and the never ending class warfare will reach new violent heights, and he is one of those who speaks to the other side I'm on.

     

    But maybe I'm wrong. I fully respect people like you who can be thoughtful and still extracts good from the "bad", maybe are the ones who gonna take us out of this mess, I don't know.

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    On 6/27/2020 at 3:55 AM, CAT5 said:

    TI'm pretty sure most of these dudes don't hate black ppl (Especially in Peterson's case), but I can understand why people label them racist: it's because they have their heads stuck so far up their own asses....they're so hyper-focused on shit like "empirical" data (which is often biased as hell) that they can't see the forest for the trees...and they're so blatantly out of touch with the reality that most so-called African-Americans face, yet they talk bold as fuck like they've walked in our very shoes. It's that prideful ignorance that comes off as extremely insensitive/offensive, and that's why I think it's easy to label a lot of these types as racist.

    That's precisely why I think we shouldn't give people like him the stage

     

    As much as I find 99% of his musings laughably common place and provocative for the sake of looking smarter instead of actually being smarter, what bothers me the most is that we have great masters like Fanon, Mbembe or Cornel West for a more american-centered view/experience that makes Peterson race ramblings look like a child talk in comparison, yet guess which one gets all the attention

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    On 6/4/2020 at 4:51 PM, Ikna said:

    The people who were calling that the next fad to replace the Metalcore trend in VK would be KPOP and soundcloud music were right. Guess that makes 8P-SB true pioneers, lol.

     

    I know I am ranting and whining a lot about it that it's insufferable, but still… I am very bothered by the direction VK has taken in the last ten years. I know rock music has lost it's mainstream  popularity and kids these days aren't rebelling by listening to edgy guitar based music, but by jamming to Billie Eilish and Lil Peep and whoever they are. But I feel VK's identitiy is so strongly tied to rock, even the stuff that was quite electronic (like Schwarz Stein) reflected it through its songwriting and -structure. That kinda changed with the advent of first western Metalcore copycats (which imo deprived VK of its unique blend of sound of post-punk and Heavy Metal) and then the introduction of annoying dance and electronic beats and shitty "synths".

     

    Now we reached the point where stuff like is so far removed from what VK was.  Can't say if it's good or bad, it's evolving after all and that can't be stopped… but I am worried that VK, which is already meaningless and super niche in japan, will just completely dissolve and assimilate into this big pot of "hip" pop and  microgenre stuff. Not sure if I make sense, it's a bit tricky to express what irks me.

    Nah, more than a DECADE ago Tokyo Shitei was doing stuff pretty similar to this

     

    Couple years earlier there were horrible VK boy bands doing pure pop

     

    fads come and go, don't see why it would be different with this band. They don't seem to even be doing waves on the scene to be that of a "threat"

     

    the only certainty is that mediocre sound doesn't stay, I don't see this becoming the hot new shit every band caters to

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    aww man now whos gonna be sarcastic af when people post dumb shit?

     

    on a serious note, it's really fuckin sad to see you go, dude

     

    but somehow I do think this place is a home/safeplace for everyone whos been here long enough, even if sometimes we do need to step away for a bit

     

    hope things somehow change and MH is home for you again, but if not it was a cool ride

     

    gave u a follow on twitter, see you around!

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    8 minutes ago, saishuu said:

    2 meses literalmente sem sair de casa, boa parte da família com o vírus, 16 mil casos + mais de mil mortes hoje no país... tá fácil não

    pois é, to na mesma situação... pior não ter idéia de quando termina, de como vai ser a vida daqui pra frente...

     

    1.2k só hoje, é surreal como a gente normalizou isso, virou numero ao vento

     

    melhoras pro teu pessoal, e bom saber que tá tudo bem contigo, mano!

  21. Posted

    As of last year, all members left LOKA but KIHIRO. Apparently he will reform the band, but in the meantime is releasing under his solo project and the songs are DOPE

     

    2020.01.22 - 'Above the Sky'

     

    https://open.spotify.com/track/1WFIsrlnc55Ur1LyTo2T3o?si=_yGeGCkmTAigrNy2Ac-isg

     

     

    this song is for K (PTP) and is the most beautiful tribute ever

     

    2020.03.31 - Aiutare

     

    https://open.spotify.com/track/2q6LGrgVgjuWslzl4yGOyh?si=QVu6vP1pT_qGqAutHoIzZQ

     

  23. Posted

    What impresses me the most in Luna Sea is how J is basically the father of the next 20 years of VK.

    Listen to Wish on Image, In my Dream on Eden and Rosier and SPECIALLY True Blue on Mother and you have the blueprint every single band followed around that time and after. Shit is freaking impressive, to say the very very least

     

    Regarding the album itself, I don't think Luna Sea works best looking at albuns individually, as I wouldn't be able to point only one that defines them. That said, Mother sounds really really mature in songs like Rosier, True Blue and Mother, while giving them range to experiment in songs like Genesis of Mind. Together with Style, this is their all time high imo, the trademark Luna Sea sound in its peak, polished and defined for the generations that would come after

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