[kj] Genesis Fragment

[Alexander Smith]

Good to hear. Allmusic dot com took a bit of a dismissive shit on it.  
Still, I must hear it.

Alex in NYC



On May 16, 2007, at 7:22 PM, ade wrote:


> Reminiscent of "Twenty Jazz Funk Greats" at times, so far I'm thinking

> about having a w at nk. Cosey's playing just gets better!!

>

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> Sent: 16 May 2007 18:44

> To: Alex Smith; A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)

> Subject: Re: [kj] Genesis Fragment

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> I've got the new TG and I love it, haven't got the time to go into  

> a review

> or analysis but if you like TG you will not be disappointed

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>>

>> Fascinating stuff, Darth -- thanks for posting this.

>>

>> Who's gotten ahold of the new TG, anyway?? And how is it??

>>

>> Alex in NYC

>>

>>

>>

>> -----Original Message-----

>>> From: "Darth E. Vader" <crackedmachine at yahoo.co.uk>

>>> Sent: May 16, 2007 9:54 AM

>>> To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)"

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>>> Subject: [kj] Genesis Fragment

>>>

>>> Flux: Talking of quantum physics, have you heard about

>>> this Large Hadron Collider that is supposed to be

>>> activated in November on the French / Swiss border? It

>>> seems these scientists want to make black holes and

>>> they don't really know what hell might break loose!

>>>

>>> GPO: That's right, in the CERN scientific centre. I

>>> think that's crazy.

>>>

>>> Flux: It does seem like the most ridiculously reckless

>>> thing the human race has yet tried to do.

>>>

>>> GPO: I agree. I just read a science fiction book in

>>> which the whole Earth disappears because a scientist

>>> creates a black hole. I don't know if it was because

>>> of that Horizon program. It seems ludicrous. I don't

>>> know how they could possibly be that arrogant that

>>> they could think they could control something like

>>> that. The very nature of it is uncontrollable. They've

>>> said so themselves, so the arrogance of it is

>>> frightening. The result could be that last arrogant

>>> human attempt to quantify and control the physical

>>> world when in fact what we should be doing is

>>> integrating all aspects of life and perception, not

>>> separating them out and trying to control them. We

>>> should be reabsorbing some of the things we used to

>>> have in terms of our relationship with nature and each

>>> other and community. Science is obsessed with

>>> separation and um...

>>>

>>> Flux: Reduction.

>>>

>>> GPO: Yes. And according to the Native Americans, they

>>> don't have a word for death. They use the word

>>> "separation" so that implies that science is killing

>>> various aspects of what we think of as consensus

>>> reality, just to prove their own potence. It's like

>>> this urge towards being a god, you know? It's just so

>>> ridiculous! Pointless. Aah, Lady Jaye just said,

>>> "Science is rife with knowledge and the absence of

>>> wisdom." It's fascinating. We're living in very

>>> interesting times. A very volatile time!

>>>

>>> Flux: Things seem to be accelerating very much. Too

>>> much is happening too fast for any one person to keep

>>> up.

>>>

>>> GPO: Yes, I know. Instead of really dealing with our

>>> behavioural issues and our personalities and our

>>> destruction of the ecosystem and our innate greed,

>>> we're just distracting ourselves with more and more

>>> gadgets and things that go faster and faster and

>>> faster in this denial of our own mortality. Everyone

>>> wants to go the fastest in an aeroplane, or run the

>>> fastest. Everything's got to be faster, faster, faster

>>> - faster computers, faster phones. Its just a

>>> completely empty, vacuous way of dealing with life.

>>> Its bound to become a disaster. If its true that

>>> things are accelerating quicker and quicker on our

>>> body of knowledge and our technology is doubling

>>> quicker and quicker then at some point within the next

>>> ten years it'll double before it happens and that

>>> could be a black hole, right?

>>>

>>>

>>> Cracked Machine irregular cyberzine

>>> http://www.webinfo.co.uk/crackedmachine

>>>

>>> Look at grafitti scrawled on the wall:

>>> Dubya can't catch family friend Bin Liner...

>>> But what the HELL?

>>> They talk to God!

>>>

>>>

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