Thread:Stray Bird/@comment-28818979-20161217150031/@comment-28209103-20170624082910

well once I talked bout something complicated I definitely gonna lose my cociseness.. it's because I fully understand that language is an extremely faulty method of sharing ideas, as such every emotional connotation, your position and the deliberation to reach said position matters.. even then it's effectivity is questionable.

The skill? there's a lot of it starting from critical thinking and philosophical "attitude",, basically it can be summed up as awareness.. for example from your option you raised, a fully aware human should realize that any action shall generate consequences, they should weight said consequences using their value and then decide for themself what action they should took. If I phrase it like that it should be tad hard to understand but if I put it in contrast then most people these days that try to justify their action, their belief, etc rather than actually "looking" at it as it is,, uhh the easiest way to say it is that there's nothing with only good or bad side in this world,, and we can actually reduce the bad side if more people are aware of it rather than being butthurt bout it, example if someone said you're fat you can either take it constructively and fully realized the good and bad of it and just decide to laugh it off and accept it as your choice or commit to diet,, or you can take it as an insult for your "identity.", no offense to fat people out there but it is a fact that being overweight is not a good things medically speaking,, nor it's pleasant in the eyes for maybe 90% of the population..

Using the music industry for example (do mind that to avoid even longer paragraph, i'll heavily lean to the position of critique against the industry practice), the reason huge studio can't profit from CD sales is because they spent way TOO much on the advertising, contract, and other unnecessary stuff for the product, WHILE at the same time they flood the market with cheap condom-like music, those kind of elevator music without any artistic value is the reason why suddenly people can't take those music industry seriously and consequently spent less for the CD, afterall buying something that'll lose it's entertaining value after a month seems to be a bad idea, especially since they ask for steep prices. Then there's the fact that it's celebrity centric and are buzz reliant rather than content reliant, this is partly the reason why band are way less and less relevant for the mainstream industry; they need face, not faces. If they didn't spent that much in the advertising then the current sales should be enough to cover the practice and earned profit, however if you cut slack on the advertising you'll be swallowed by competitors.. If you use buzz to create advertising then your art will matter less and less and people will value it less and less, and for something with less value people will be reluctant to spent their money on it. Meanwhile the CD of "real" singer with actual value like Adele sells like hotcake.. it's because we saw value in having one, that it won't become stale in a month.

Oh don't forget that the term "music industry" are no longer fit for it, the best name are actually "entertainment industry" and it'll led to another reason why the stuff I mentioned above happened. Mainly is that the industry biggest revenue are something from affiliate (sponsor) rather than selling junk they call music.. it is perversion of Andy Warhol ideals tainted by greed, right now rather than re-living value in everythings mundane celebrity are closer to huge walking billboard of decadent lifestyles. If we look at the grand scheme of thing the stuff they advertise are something related to certain pattern of lifestyle aimed at younger generation to mold their shape for the industry own uses, the other side of it however is that it inevitably led to wretched mix of anarcism (as in challening the authority), postmodernism, and hedonism which ironically made piracy a thing cuz they spent more on other stuff rather than the CD.. it's called you reap what you sow.

This is why I argue Piracy are not the main reason their sales dropped, it's simply consequences of such system. In the first place it is easy to see that at current culture most pirate are not the type to buy CD, therefore it's basically like F2P version of music industry that quickly become cancerous for the sources. Meanwhile people will support Artist with real commitment to their craft even without much media exposure. This is why I said philosophy and balanced view are important, rationality and individualism are overrated because we are as or more emotional rather than we are rational,, especially when it comes to arts; that is at this time of writing and long before it too, do realize it's never about paying for the arts, it's the opposite, it is because we respect the artist that we feel honored to be able to support him. Giving monetary appreciation are not our obligation, it is our privilige, however the industry framed it otherwise, that's it our duty to paid for whatever we had contact with so they can profit. Piracy are simply a counter-culture against this system, in a sense it's competition.

That is just one side of the face of current "entertainment" industry purely from the artistic value standpoint. If we examine further things like social envy, socialization, marketing technique, etc.. well you know the drill. However this is exactly why I said such awareness are important for our society. Society are tangled web of individual and structure,, the structure will form Individual and the individual will form the structure, what you said and most people said is that we should focus on re-forming the structure, what I basically said is that we should take the harder route and re-form the individuals. Such indidvual already existed here and there and like you said they actually made a new structure to re-shape our society; those like Pantreons, KickStarter, and other Crowdfunding/sponsorship system are nice example of this, however their impact will be minimal unless more people become more "aware".

And I just write another wall of text.. well I just want to raise a point that there's no such thing as "Simple" thing in this world if you try to understand it materialistic value..