Kindle Notes & Highlights
by
S.D. Miller
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January 24 - January 25, 2025
when a single guitar note burst through the silence. The crowd roared as a green hue lit up the stage. Juan could see two skinny figures- a shorter one in skintight pants, a tank top and leather jacket with a guitar and a tall lanky one in a tank top and skirt with a bass- and one ginormous man at the drum kit; the sticks looked like toothpicks in his hands. As the cheers died down, the guitarist hit another chord and let it ring out.
The band was a single organism in a symbiotic relationship with the crowd. Each player did their part, served a function, and compensated when needed.
On paper, if someone dissected the music, one would expect it to be awful. They broke all the rules: random tempo changes, discordant notes, chord progressions that followed no pattern, and often screaming in the place of singing. Somehow, against all reasonable expectations, the end result was not just good, it was transformative.
“Competition makes us stronger. Iron sharpens iron.” “Yeah, if you’re a tool.”
it seems to me that cooperation between people gets you a lot further than competition. Like take Corpslayer for example, on stage we work together as one. We compensate for each other and boost each other when it feels right. We also respond to the crowd– everyone working together.”
“It’s a thought experiment. One that helps a person envision an ideal society. It asks you to think of a world in which you would want to live. But there’s a catch. You have to envision the society with ignorance as to what role you will have in that world. Maybe you will be a CEO, maybe a prisoner in a jail, maybe a guard in the security force, or maybe even a punk rocker. With that veil of ignorance, would you create Nekonikon or something different?”
