Wired for, or Wired to…?
I first heard “Wired for sound” as a battle cry of high-end headphone owners, who silently graduated from the boom-box era to the era of how much outside noise canceling on top of the dynamic range of these middle ear crushers.
From boom boxes rocking walls, we have shifted to: how small is the device; how many songs can it hold; does it play from my cloud service or a streaming service or both; wired or blue tooth connectivity; wired buds or individual ear buds with no wires connecting….all of this falls into the near genitalia swinging bragging rights of being “wired for sound.”
Wire or “the wire” has morphed into an umbrella for being connected…and I spring from Les McCann’s lyric, “Trying to make it real compared to what?”
Wired for Sound was my first baseline of observation as then I noticed the operative word — WIRED! Wired implies “connected” which our popular cultures have expanded to mean: 1. the landing point from machines to 2. drug (ala amphetamine, et al) enhanced states.
What are we connected to that is so alluring? How is it that we have become more interested in being connected to machines vs. another being?
I was taught that computers were designed after our brain’s hierarchal filing system. We are the mainframes and as such, deserve to be connected to one another…this broadens our true networks.
The dominant cultures seemed focused on profiteering on our connection to machines and discouraging connecting to too many like minds…after all, there is profit to be made guiding this ship to Armageddon!
The bigger the profit, the more bomb/survival shelters the top 1% of wealth-mongers can afford…STOP¿
I think if we learn to better connect to one another, the fewer weapons of mass destruction we will need, but…where’s the profit in that?
…where’s the profit in intra-networking the human race? Can we find it here or must we blow up this planet and find another in space to start all over again?
My prayer for this day is, “YES, We CanCan…I know we can make it!” …a line from the fabulous lyrics written by Allen Toussaint (Copyright © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC) and eloquently performed by the Pointer Sisters:
Yes We CanCan
- Now’s the time for all good men/to get together with one another. We got to iron out our problems/and iron out our quarrels and try to live as brothers.
- And try to find a piece of land/without stepping on one another. And do respect the women of the world./Remember you all have mothers. We got to make this land a better land/than the world in which we live.
- And we got to help each man be a better man/with the kindness that we give.
- I know we can make it.
- I know darn well we can work it out.
- Oh yes we can, I know we can can
- Yes we can can, why can’t we?
- If we wanna get together we can work it out.
- And we gotta take care of all the children, the little children of the world — ‘cause they’re our strongest hope for the future, the little bitty boys and girls.
- We got to make this land a better land/than the world in which we live. And we got to help each man be a better man with the kindness that we give.
- I know we can make it.
- I know darn well we can work it out.
- Oh yes we can, I know we can can
- yes we can can, why can’t we?
- If we wanna, yes we can can.
r.u. with We?
