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    How does the World view America these days?

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    Posted · Edited by ussr

     

     

     

    maybe back in the day, but you can tell he is considerably diminished, if you watch him from the 80's versus now.

    I dont know, check out this analysis

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aFo_BV-UzI&app=desktop

     

    You guys are kidding right? The way he formulates his answers/builds up sentences is as if he's suffered some kind of brain injury.

     

    I disagree completely. He may not be a math or science or logic genius. But don't buy the whole kool aid that he's just a dumbass who speaks off the top of his head without any ryhme or reason. We're talking about a billionaire persona whose possibly the most successful self-promoter and salesman that ever existed. Just watch The Choice for some perspective, it 's incredible. His use of 4th grade level rhetoric and the way he frames statements in certain perspectives is a tactic that works wonders for his PR. Not just for the race hes been doing it all his life, im sure his dad taught him how to make people believe his bs or buy his illusions or feed his narcisism. It's absolutely expertise propaganda rather than just babbling, and if you don't see that, i think you're missing the picture, he's sold you.

     

    Yeah, I'm probably coming from a too simplistic/naive pov. Will check out The Choice, thanks for the recommendation.

     

    To clarify; I don't think he's dumb, it's just the way he speaks that seems really off to me but I'm not a native speaker so that may have something to do with it.

    How does the World view America these days?

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    Yeah I've been yelled at by someone who was having a psychotic episode to stop bothering her. I was just sitting on a bench somewhere and a complete stranger walked up to me.

    It was kind of frightening but I felt really bad for the person screaming at me as it was quite clear they were very frightened as well and having a hard time keeping grip on reality.

    Wolfgang Voigt / Gas

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    I am surprised at the absence of critical opinions on Wolfgang. I was a big fan of his production of mid-to-late 90s, then he took control of emerging Kompakt label and quickly burned as a producer. That Kompakt was really a technopop consortium, a sort of what was electroclash for electro, la dolce vita days. If i'm not mistaken he returned to releasing after almost a decade of hiatus. Gas was immediately overhyped and pompously re-released, and Wolfgang began to build on that reputation, thinking he still have that minimalist touch he was known for. Aged master at marketing of techno who's doing "art" like in the old days (when it was fresh and thus considered arty afterwards), hence Klavier and Kafka in titles. No offense to current fans, but fuck him.

     

    That fate has also reached, on a sidenote, Carsten Nicolai alias Alva Noto. Since I got aware of his strange way to treat video artists working for him I cannot take him serious anymore.

     

     

    Can you elaborate on this?

    A few years ago I worked for him as a video tech in a live setting for a project he was doing with Richie Hawtin, Matthew Dear and some others and he was an incredibly unpleasant person to work with.

    Would love to hear some more gossip ;-)

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