A steady couple of days. Completed the Remembrance Service album yesterday and submitted it for digital release on May 20th. John W. came round in the afternoon with a microphone problem and I very much enjoyed our catch up. The problem was relatively easy to fix. He brought round a few recent paintings, a dream sequence. So much art to make, so little time. I'm inspired to remaster and re-record, and have a plan, well, several plans, for a future album (and albums), too.
Tomorrow is the 1st of April, so a day for quarterly backups. It marks the start of what will probably be a difficult year financially for everyone. I mused last night that benefits now are linked to savings, meaning that recipients are expected to spend and live off savings when these are sufficient, rather than receive any benefits. This is hugely wrong philosophically. Its logical conclusion is a population who have no incentive to save, and live proverbially hand-to-mouth, remaining trapped in poverty and dependency because they have no hope of growth or escape. Imagine if MPs were not paid if they has sufficient savings to live? Perhaps the population of Britain should be given a vote on that proposal?
I've spent some of today changing aspects of my website and social media to a 3rd person perspective. This makes third party management of my accounts simpler and solves a few problems. The Fall in Green website, for example, used to refer to my participation on events in first person, when our activities are an equal partnership, and some biographical aspects of a website are best written in third person. This is unusual in social media however. Even members of The Royal Family post words and items themselves. This may make them 'more accessible' and personable, but it also removes any distance, enigma, and allure. I prefer to be distant, enigmatic, alluring.
I've always been somewhat schizoid in personality. I dislike, more than ever, social media. We are now forced to give our work, our information, our creations, our biometrics, for free to the world, and these companies then sell these data for profit. In the past, people received royalties for their work. Under their regime, information and knowledge, and intelligence, have been devalued; in some cases rendered nearly worthless. Power and control over this data is what is valuable. 'Influencers' are now more important than the wise.
In a recent news story, someone was jailed for posting a defamatory comment on Twitter. It appears that no employee or executive of Twitter faced a penalty. Instead, the company benefitted from the publicity, making money from the publicity of a crime in which they were complicit.
