Imagine any record released in the past couple of years being beamed back in time to, say, 1995 and played on the radio. It's hard to think that it will produce any jolt in the listeners. On the contrary, what would be likely to shock our 1995 audience would be the very recognisability of the sounds: would music really have changed so little?

I don't really show my writing often (i dont do it as often anymore) but heres a thing I wrote a short thing about Music in school for English ¤D

While many of my major intellectual influences are in fact atheists of the old school materialist tradition who analyzed religion as a cultural force determined by economics and social relations, I was always critical of the obsessive view of atheism an an innately liberating belief system that superseded the material conditions that we all live in and that shape our lives. The New Atheists, and [Sam] Harris in particular, spent a lot of time obsessing over the problem that people believe "bad things" even as they ignored the real-world forces that might generate those bad beliefs, and in turn, adopted much of the reactionary worldview of their Christian counterparts in the Bush administration.