Blog #8: Socialism? Science? Public Education?

Step 1: Design a CD and 5 songs

Song 1: Broken Education is the source of all woes
Genre: Alternative
Explanation: The pubic education system in America is to blame for most of our social, economic, and intellectual problems. The way school is set up teaches children how to fail (through memorization) rather than how to succeed (through learning and problem solving).

Song 2: They are dying, but we don't care
Genre: Rap
Explanation: Genocide seems to happen every few years, but the world forum does not care. While politicians garner huge audiences who applaud at their rhetoric, war criminals and warlords murder dissenters, firebomb peaceful villagers, and create panic, fear, and hatred in parts of the world that no one seems to care about (Darfur, Rwanda, Serbia). How can we call ourselves human when we allow this to happen?

Song 3: The Rise of a bitter Slave
Genre: Drum n Bass
Explanation: Artificial Intelligence will soon be a reality. But with the creation of neuron like structures, emotive mimickry, and rational thought will come a new wave of thinking, feeling beings that will have to fight for equal rights. Considering we can't even give minorities or gays equal rights, the fight against the machines will pose a real challenge for men who believe they are better than everything else. AI will be stronger, faster, smarter, and more easily replicated than man, so who will win this war?

Song 4: A New World Order
Genre: Classical
Explanation: This bass drum and trumpet heavy classical piece's purpose is to incite a realization that political figures promise one moment and break their promises the next, and this will continue to happen as long as you allow it.

Song 5: Biological Imperative
Genre: Dark Step
Explanation: People are too busy with their lives to realize that producing successful offspring is the reason they are on this planet. Their lives are too self important and self consumed to bring children onto the world and take care of them the way that children need.

Song 6: Socialism is ideologically driven but scientifically unfeasible
Genre: Alternative
Explanation: Wouldn't it be wonderful if everyone was taken care of by the govenrment? We could all pay taxes to help the poor and hungry, to give everyone medical insurance, blah blah blah. This doesn't work, even on paper. People who know nothing about economics support socialism.

Song 6 Lyrics

Where is our world, where we, live on
Where are the handouts for the needy, who crouch among the steps of necessity
Where is the world we dream of when we are young
Maybe it's time for us to open eyes and see reality
Maybe it's time for us to dream about something we can achieve
Maybe it's ty y ime for us to work to bring peace and sanity
Maybe we'll never see the light of day of ideologies.
We need to fix too much, instead supply a crutch, to those who don't produce
We need to teach our children not how to memorize but instead how to deduce
We need to do our best to bring humanity to the forefront once again
Until then, we can only imagine about Zen.

Step 3:
CD Title - The World Spins and Gets Nowhere

Step 4: CD Cover

In my cover, there is a picture of a park with children playing in it. It is late autumn, the leaves are all over the ground, and the children are bundled up in warm clothing. But the trees are twisted and odd, the children seem to be ignoring each other, not playing with each other, and the park items they play on are of strange, alien design. This signifies that we have lost our humanity, that we lost the meaning of life, or perhaps we never fully realized it. The title text is wisps of smoke, the colors dominating the picture are purples, oranges, yellows and reds for autumn, but the children are gray and yellow, their parents are all transparent. The image looks acid washed so that the colors all run together rather than concrete objects appearing discretely from their surroundings.