THINK!

Productivity
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Hello,

Some of you may remember the videos I’ve been posting in the last few months— slideshows showcasing the meaning of “protest” songs written from an Objectivist perspective.

Now these videos are going to become a full album, and it will be available exclusively through Youtube.

You can watch the first three tracks, “The world ends today”, “Tables and whims” and “A dictator’s lament” at http://www.youtube/user/Gabobjectivist or at my profile at www.myspace.com/gabo67

The videos for the remaining three tracks will be available soon. The name of the album is, simply enough, Think!

Hope you enjoy it!

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The fourth video from Think! is now available at www.youtube.com/user/Gabobjectivist and www.myspace.com/gabo67

The song is called “The Ecologist” and deals with environmentalism and the anti-industrial mentality.

Here are the lyrics:

I’ve got a message for the world

Which I’m going to transmit

Through these means which I didn’t create

but which have to cease to exist

I’ve got a message for the world

It simply occurred to me

During the idle time that I enjoy thanks

to what has to cease to exist

Let’s return to the good times

When man can be alone with nature

With its wonders, its mosquitoes and its alligators

Let’s return to the good times

When man be alone with nature

So that I stop singing songs and blocking roads

with the vilest of intentions

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I get it gabo, but I prefer the “uncharted forest” to the urban jungle WE (specifically us both) live in.

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If Argentina does turn into a dictatorship after all, I guess the forest would be better. But only under those extreme circumstances.

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well yeah i guess that’s true. ANyways I like your song particularly the two first paragraphs,

there’s a subconscious undertitle to “the ecologist”: self-hatred

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there’s a subconscious undertitle to “the ecologist”: self-hatred

Indeed. It is generally self-hatred that leads you towards passionate and irrational hatred towards the rest.

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The fifth video from the album is now available at www.youtube.com/Gabobjectivist

The song is called “Initializers”, and the video uses stunning material from fellow board members matus976 and volco.

Here are the lyrics for the song:

INITIALIZERS

We’re the first ones to whom freedom

is only a few more steps away

We’re used to its everrreaching hand

just a thing of everyday

And though we should always remember,

we can easily forget

we can lose what we’ve been born to

if we don’t recognise that it needs a clear defence

The progress we’ve been making isn’t ready yet

That doesn’t mean it’s failing, it’s just a proof of its success

for those who understand that things don’t change from day to day

It’s a process that needs effort, willingness and work

We’re not in the final stages of something

We’re just initializing

We’re the ones who know the effect

without knowing the cause

leaving it defenseless,

losing by default

But the light of reason shines

even in the most darkened stages

We’re not doomed to the Dark Ages,

we can turn the tide again

While you’re the final stage of a failed something,

WE ARE THE INITIALIZERS

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Very, very good Gabo! I love the lyrics, they are indeed very inspiring. The song’s a booster!

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Video 6, “Tribute to the monkey” is now up. The song is instrumental and the video is about the current crisis in Argentina, result of a corrupt government and the evil myth of income redistribution.

www.youtube.com/user/Gabobjectivist

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Video 7, “Anatomy of Compromise” is here! The song is about the evils and hypocresy of compromise, and the video features cartoons by the brilliant Cox and Forkum.

View it at www.youtube.com/user/Gabobjectivist

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I’ve just posted video8, “I am the counterculture”, showcasing paintings by Michael Newberry.

You can view it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKQUt4px3eM

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Yet another one: “Globalize” – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlAVFDu-_uQ

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The last video, at least for the time being, is “Don’t let it go”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xmPtLktEqs

I hope you enjoy it!

By the way, all 10 videos are now easily accesible through the THINK! Playlist: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=0E8940913AE04E08

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I generally dont like music with prominent lyrics but I enjoy the aesthetic of ‘I am the Counterculture’, its very krautrock.

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I generally dont like music with prominent lyrics but I enjoy the aesthetic of ‘I am the Counterculture’, its very krautrock.

Thanks! It does sound a bit Kraftwerkian. Probably that song is my favourite of the bunch.

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I found out about your youtube songs through reading this thread. After watching just a few of the songs I thought I’ll come back here and make a post and tell everyone how they should go watch them right now, and now I see this thread is actually made by the same guy who made all these songs!

Excellent - Now I can tell everyone to go watch these songs right now, AND congratulate you and tell you how much I love your songs!

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I found out about your youtube songs through reading this thread. After watching just a few of the songs I thought I’ll come back here and make a post and tell everyone how they should go watch them right now, and now I see this thread is actually made by the same guy who made all these songs!

Excellent - Now I can tell everyone to go watch these songs right now, AND congratulate you and tell you how much I love your songs!

Thank you very much for all your kind comments, both here and on Youtube (I assume you’re the same person who commented on two videos recently.) I’m really glad that you like them so much!

The album will be available as a free mp3 download sometime soon, after I finish remixing some tracks. I’ll let you all know.