If you dare to take up the banner of enlightenment, you will be attacked from all sides. From the inside you will be attacked by your own mind and from the outside you will be attacked by everyone else’s mind. Anyone who dares to succeed automatically presents a huge threat. If true freedom is going to survive within you, you have to be willing to fight for it. You have to have a sword in each hand at all times. One sword is for your own mind and the other sword is for everyone else’s mind. You must be ready to use them. Anyone who wants to be truly free must be willing to stand alone in the truth.” – Andrew Cohen

Fingerbanger 1: DJ Shadow – Scale It Back (Philestine Remix) (don lowed)

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Fingerbanger 2: Locst Toybox – Melody 10 (Aphex Twin Cover) (don lowed)

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Fingerbanger 3: Dauwd – Silverse (don lowed)

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Sometimes that shark looks right at ya. Right into your eyes. And the thing about a shark is he’s got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll’s eyes. When he comes at ya, he doesn’t even seem to be livin’… ’til he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then… ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin’. The ocean turns red, and despite all your poundin’ and your hollerin’ those sharks come in and… they rip you to pieces.

Fingerbanger 4: Pirupa feat. Bajka – Trust (Gregorythme Remix) (don lowed)

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Fingerbanger 5: Ben Pearce – What I Might Do (Club Mix) (don lowed)

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“That which is Below corresponds to that which is Above, and that which is Above, corresponds to that which is Below, to accomplish the miracles of the One Thing”

Fingerbanger 1: Miguel – Adorn (Ground is lava Benedek Cool Mix) (don lowed)

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For he who has not known himself has known nothing, but he who has known himself has at the same time already achieved knowledge about the depth of the all.

Fingerbanger 2: Mr. Carmack – Pay (For What) (don lowed)

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I couldn’t even tell you if I’ve actually heard a rihanna song. I’m counting this as the first. Thats the tooth.

Fingerbanger 3: Rihanna – Stay (Branchez Bootleg) (don lowed)

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Body of light.

Fingerbanger 4: Flying Lotus – Do The Astral Plane (don lowed)

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As a History major who specializes in the history of early modern Europe, I’ve studied a lot of dictators in detail, not just Hitler. The number one mistake anyone could ever make in history is making the assumption that only inhuman monsters are capable of doing terrible things.

Stop dehumanizing Hitler just so you can reassure yourself that “normal” humans aren’t capable of doing bad things. Hitler liked children and dogs, he was a vegetarian and he cried like a little boy when his mother died. I’m not saying he was a good, innocent person, but when you stop attributing human characteristics to historical figures like Hitler, it’s how you overlook people just like him in real life, and it’s how people like him end up back in power. – Some Interweb Guy

Fingerbanger 5: School Of Seven Bells – Half Asleep (don lowed)

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I’m no liberal, and I’m sure I’m completely wrong about what Tucker meant, but when I hear some Libertarian say what they’re interested in is the “Progressive reduction of all government power in people’s lives down to 0” at any cost… I don’t hear a revolutionary cry of Liberty For All. What I hear is, We want to remove all monetary regulations, We want to remove environmental regulations, We want to remove all existing legislation that prevents us from being outright sexist bigots, and We want our slaves back. In total, we’re interested in realizing absolute financial and thereby moral authority, without anyone having any real ability to tell us we can’t, or shouldn’t, do whatever we want. At any cost. And we’ll sell it to you by making believe we’re just like you, and doing it ‘for your benefit’. Why do people believe removing regulation (however imperfect it is) meant to protect them is going to benefit them when it should be obvious the deck is stacked?

On a personal level I’m saying I understand that it’s really really difficult to let someone else think, act, and believe things that are fundamentally opposite from ourselves. It can be maddening because it shines a light right back onto what we believe, highlighting it, pointing out that if I admit that someone else isn’t exactly wrong… why do I believe that I am exactly right? It calls into question why we are how we are, why we do what we do, and why we believe what we believe. On a broad scale that level of introspection takes a lifetime of courage to question what we think we know, years of dissecting our motivations and logical flaws, diverging from our peers, and confronting that we’re really out here in the woods at night with no safe intellectual place to lazily lay down. And to go through life like that… acknowledging that you can’t know anything except for yourself… well, its very difficult and there aren’t a lot of reasons to do so. Though ‘do the least harm possible’ I think is a good place to start.

My key stroke and your key stroke were sitting by the fire, my key stroke says to your key stroke, we’re gunna set this world on fire.

Fingerbanger 1: Food Chain – Dear Industry (don lowed)

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Fingerbanger 2: The Horrors – Still Life (don lowed)

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Fingerbanger 3: Tryad – The Rising (don lowed)

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The real measure of your wealth is how much you’d be worth if you lost all your money.

The real measure of a man is how he treats someone that can do absolutely nothing for him.

Fingerbanger 4: King Biscuit Time – I Walk The Earth (don lowed)

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Fingerbanger 5: Holy Fuck – Lovely Allen (don lowed)

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There is absolutely nothing to be said for government by a plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with ‘a money touch,’ but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers:” – Theodore Roosevelt

Recently I was thinking that perhaps that the most detrimental condition to a man is comfort. I’d go so far as to say I believe it’s almost the most singular goal of modern living humans to secure for themselves the highest level of comfort they can…for as long as they can.  We have built society upon the ideological foundation of secure comfort in the “American Dream” with the expectation of attainability so certain that it is perhaps ultimately perceived as deserved. And to that end we have obtained comfort to a degree that all the history of kings on earth combined couldn’t have imagined; such comfort that we think nothing of our ability to have a couple dozen fresh fruit varieties on our counters in the middle of winter, such comfort that perhaps a neighbor with rust on their vehicle  could be seen as struggling, and such comfort that popular media stalks the state of famous peoples lives more than the state of humanity. The power we posses in our pocket cellphone alone is so historically stunning that it’s easy to be ignorant that running hot water has really only been around since the turn of the century. Material comforts aside, how many of us plow a field? Cut down trees to build our house? Or sit on a barstool at the end of a hard day of sitting at a desk? Each progressive achievement of the next new comfort so spectacularly widens the illusory gap to past conditions that it seems obligatory that we attack and mock those that even suggest maintaining an awareness that the current state of existence is not a not a birth right, but only a temporary condition. And in the off occasion our comfort is shown to be an illusion, there’s little resilience left in us, only shock and outrage that indeed bad things still exist in our world.

Ultimately it’s this gap between the past and present conditions that as a society, and also individually, we’re so ill prepared to deal with that keeps us from making a stand against the corptocracy, the political corruption, the erosion of liberties, and so forth. We’re afraid to stop the ride because the cognition of what might be a hard reality where there is much less comfort is too daunting, too diminishing to our pride, too unfamiliar to be realistic. Taking into consideration the modern weaponry of our military, taking a stand might even be impossible. Here we need to believe the man behind the curtain. Perhaps quite literally for modern society, we’ve gone too far to turn back.

It’s difficult to free fools from the chains they revere – Voltaire

At least I have a few songs to listen to.

Fingerbanger 1: Clams Casino – I’m God (don lowed)

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Fingerbanger 2: Blank Banshee – Deepspace (don lowed)

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Fingerbanger 3: XXYYXX – About You (don lowed)

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You want to get rid of the electoral college?

Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that. – George Carlin

Fingerbanger 4: Kuedo – Whisper Fate (don lowed)

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Fingerbanger 5: Ian Pooley – Compurhythm (Dixon 44 Treatment) (don lowed)

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 Robert Bork tried out that argument in 1971, in defense of prosecuting such victimless crimes as drug abuse, writing in the Indiana Law Journal that “knowledge that an activity is taking place is a harm to those who find it profoundly immoral.” It’s as bad an argument now as it was then. We may not like it that other people are doing things we revile—smoking pot, enjoying pornography, making gay love, or carrying a gun—but if we aren’t adversely affected by it, the Constitution and common decency argue for leaving it alone. My friend may feel less safe because people are wearing concealed guns, but the data suggest she isn’t less safe. – Happiness is a worn gun (harpers)

Fingerbanger 1: Blue Foundation – Describe (Allies For Everyone Remix) (don lowed)

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Everything’s a conspiracy and we’re all in on it.

Fingerbanger 2: Chromatic Filters – Horizon Stripes (Jamie 3-26 Re-Whump) (don lowed)

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By request.

Fingerbanger 3: Drums – Money (Basement Jaxx Mix) (don lowed)

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Fingerbanger 4: HNQO Feat Bip – As I See (don lowed)

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I would be a fool to answer that; it would mean pinning myself down. I was fascinated with Stendhal at 13 and with Thomas Mann at 15 and, at 16, I loved Chopin. Then I spent my life getting to know the rest. Right now, Chopin is at the very top once again. If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you’re an idiot. – Umberto Eco

Fingerbanger 5: Ian Pooley – Compurhythm (Dixon 44 Treatment) (don lowed)

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If anyone knows where my friend Roxanne Musterer is, tell her I say hi.

Fingerbanger 1: Congo Sanchez – Oleada Calor (Ancient Astronauts) (don lowed)

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Fingerbanger 2: Cobblestone Jazz – Before This (don lowed)

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Fingerbanger 3: DJ Kentaro – Kikkake (Reso Remix) (don lowed)

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Fingerbanger 4: Debian Blak – The Idiot Stem (Scrimshire Remix) (don lowed)

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Fingerbanger 5: Funkanala – Be There Tomorrow ( Part 2 ) (don lowed)

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DJ Moneyshot & Rackabeat teamed up to plot world conspiracies as The Allergies, a courageous duo armed with kicks, samples and a catalog of secret handshakes. Of course Bill Hicks all up in it just makes me love it more.

Fingerbanger 1: The Allergies – This Is Just A Ride (don lowed) (soundcloud)

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There’s a big difference between princess and toadstool…

Fingerbanger 2: Homeboy Sandman – Watchu Want From Me (don lowed)

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“I want to deliver a warning this afternoon: When the American people find out how their government has secretly interpreted the Patriot Act, they will be stunned and they will be angry,” – Senator Ron Wyden, OR-D

Fingerbanger 3: Ty – Closer Feat. Maceo (don lowed)

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Get about 40 seconds into this before it takes off.

Fingerbanger 4: A7 & Plusga – Blasphemy (don lowed)

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how does this pension system work? We all put money into our 401(k)s. We work our lives. We’re putting this money in once a month. It goes to Wall Street. Wall Street — through these ways of managing these large funds, enormous — I mean, I’m just one of the — [let me] pause to say the amount of money we’re talking about I measured in terms of percentage of GDP [gross domestic product]. This is an enormous amount of money, trillions of dollars.

So anyway, the average person puts this money in once a month. Wall Street takes it and skims off. With the help of hedge funds, but also with just the help of poor trading and bad decisions, it just skims off a certain percentage every quarter, so larger percentages every year. At the very end of somebody’s career, they retire and they get some of that back. I mean, it just seems like such a wasteful system in the sense that this is this person’s money, and it’s just basically going to Wall Street. – Cathy O’Neil (read it here)

Fingerbanger 5: Sixfingers – Down On 26th Street (don lowed)

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Instead of saying “I don’t have time” try saying “it’s not a priority,” and see how that feels. Often, that’s a perfectly adequate explanation. I have time to iron my sheets, I just don’t want to. But other things are harder. Try it: “I’m not going to edit your résumé, sweetie, because it’s not a priority.” “I don’t go to the doctor because my health is not a priority.” If these phrases don’t sit well, that’s the point. Changing our language reminds us that time is a choice. If we don’t like how we’re spending an hour, we can choose differently. – Wall Street Journal

We’re 24 hour synth people right now. Thoughts are things. Enjoy.

Fingerbanger 1: D/R/U/G/S – The Source Of Light (Original Mix) (don lowed)

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Fingerbanger 2: Zoo Brazil – Glass (don lowed)

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Fingerbanger 3: Duncan Sheik – Shout (Chi Duly Remix) (don lowed)

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Fingerbanger 4: Royksopp – Poor Leno (Silicone Souls Hypo House Dub)(don lowed)

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Fingerbanger 5: Luxxe, GD & Solvent – Quiet Life (don lowed)

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“We all got a gang mentality. Republicans are fukking idiots. Democrats are fukking idiots. Conservatives are idiots and liberals are idiots. Anyone who makes up their mind before they hear the issue is a fukking fool. Everybody, nah, nah, nah, everybody is so busy wanting to be down with a gang! I’m a conservative! I’m a liberal! I’m a conservative! It’s bullshit! Be a fukking person. Listen. Let it swirl around your head. Then form your opinion. No normal decent person is one thing.” – Chris Rock

Fingerbanger 1: Satin Jackets – You Make Me Feel Good (don lowed)

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Fingerbanger 2: Re-Tide – Love & Happiness (Original Mix) (don lowed)

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We’ll make it a story problem: “If the American people are stupid enough to pay $200 million for each barks-like-a-dog F-35, and they go through with the planned purchase of 2,443 of these flying cash dispensers, how many billions in treasury bonds will we have to sell to the Chinese just to line the pockets of some sleazy Texas congressmen and their contractor pals? Let’s see, that’s $200,000,000 X 2,443 = $488600000000. Call it five hundred billion dollars, with tax and gratuity. Half a trillion.” – The Worst Thing About Drones (Read It Here)

Fingerbanger 3: Niki And The Dove – Mother Protect (Goldroom Remix) (don lowed)

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Fingerbanger 4: Tempogeist – Romeo (Monitor 66 Remix) (don lowed)

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For every free coffee beauty privilege gets you, it also gets you a guy following you down the steps on the subway, saying he wants to work his tongue into your ass. – Crabapple

Seems to me a pretty fair price for coffee, a latte can be $6 easy. Besides, I’ve probably said that to girls that don’t even get the free coffee… I wonder if Minneapolis will ever let me back in.

Fingerbanger 5: Aquarius Heaven – Universe (don lowed)

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From this political election, before and after, one thing has become so clear to me and that is that regardless of what political side you reside modern Americans are some of the most self-important creatures on the planet. And through their aggrandized self-importance it’s absolutely imperative that they be offended by something at all times. Lest their tiny little fear mongering feeble minds become unfed with the absolute political and religious opinionated junk food they survive on and they collapse like an imploding star into a split-second glimpse that their imaginary world is perhaps just one way of looking at things, and NOT absolute reality. But I can’t necessarily blame them; a wild animal born into a cage has no knowledge that they are in fact a prisoner… everything seems fine because those bars have always been there (look how far we’ve come). Such is the danger of  the indoctrination of a belief system; especially one where you can NOT be wrong, no matter how wrong you might be. The opposite of any scientific method which exists to get unbiased results. The opposite of reason… but this isn’t an attack on politics, religion, spirituality, or any prescribed belief system which I understand is as real as it is believed to be real. It’s a call to realize just that. What an individual holds to be the truth is the truth for the individual, and the freedom to practice that belief so long as it does not infringe on another rights to do the same is one of the main reason those damn pilgrims decided to come and establish America as the land of the free; because they couldn’t do that back home. God Damn, human nature is an fearful, insecure bitch.

Fingerbanger 1: Black Marble – Pretender (don lowed)

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“Whats to keep someone from getting all potted up on weed and then getting behind the wheel?”

hysterical as this is,  I say probably the same thing that stops them from getting all potted up and playing some of the most difficult instrumentation in all of music on a daily basis.

Fingerbanger 2: Quelle Chris – Every Single Night (Mellow Remix) (don lowed)

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Fingerbanger 3: Club Tango – Get The Picture (don lowed)

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Fingerbanger 4: Amon Tobin – Bridge (don lowed)

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I’m actually considering the idea that some very powerful people believe they are fulfilling biblical prophecy by supporting the modern Zionist state, and they’ve got til Dec. 21st. heh.

Fingerbanger 5: The Never Years – Two Words (don lowed)

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Take a Time Out for a Taco