The point of this incident is it highlights how most of those who follow Jimi’s music and story don’t want to know what he really said and thought, they lack interest in the real Jimi and instead crave a fiction of him. They DEMAND a slacker fantasy, and when evidence is presented that contradicts their cartoon, they “pile on” and condemn, suppress, denigrate, and persecute the person who shatters their fantasy. They’re a microcosm of the culture at large: Sheepleistic Idiocracy Mob, brain-trained by H.I.M.M.
“I had no idea who Jimi Hendrix was until our son came home for Thanksgiving during his first year at university. When he came through the door it was a stranger in jeans and a sloppy sweater (which I had no idea where he’d picked up), and long hair standing up like a hedgehog’s. ‘Neat, eh?’ he said, ‘I’m told I look like Jimi Hendrix, my favorite singer.’ Not knowing much about Hendrix, I Googled him. Hendrix was a young, handsome singer and guitarist who became a huge sensation, but sadly died when he was just 27, some believe from an overdose of drugs. I had found the following quote that I had written down in a book that I keep for such things and was surprised to find out that the author was Jimi Hendrix: ‘Knowledge speaks. Wisdom listens.’ When I opened a biography of Hendrix, I couldn’t believe the quotes he was famous for: ‘When the Power Of Love overcomes Love Of Power, the world will know Peace.’ He had a great impact on the world.”
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Those bogus quotes are all over the web and Hendrix never said them. But what’s alarming is what it represents, because the mistakes can’t be corrected. Countless times over many years I’ve notified websites of the quotation errors and even forwarded the correct sources for these quotes (the sources are an interesting story on their own, as shown below), but it makes no difference. Even when presented with the evidence, the consumer herd prefers to make-believe and insist Jimi’s “wisdom” is symbolized in these utopian maxims that he never said. The implication is horrifying: they don’t want to know what he really said. The “mass class” demands fantasies, craves easy hearsay in place of research reading and note taking, and above all, insists that officials lie to them. This incident of non-correctable misquotes of Jimi illustrates ways civilization jumped over the Cliff-Of-No-Return – hurtling, blissfully oblivious to impending extinction, and hell bent on crucifying all who point out this predicament.
an allergy to complexity and nuance
“We have become unmoored from a world of print, from complexity and nuance, and with it information systems built on the primacy of verifiable fact. The public has embraced the emotional carnival that has turned news into another form of mindless entertainment. We are, even more ominously, losing the meticulous skills of reporting, editing, fact-checking and investigating that make daily information trustworthy. The decline of print has severed a connection with a reality-based culture, one in which we attempt to make fact the foundation for opinion and debate, and replaced it with a culture in which facts, opinions, lies and fantasy are interchangeable. As news has been overtaken by gossip, the hollowness of celebrity culture and carefully staged pseudo-events, along with the hysteria and drama that dominate much of the airwaves, our civil and political discourse has been contaminated by propaganda and entertainment masquerading as news. In an age of profound culture decline the masses prefer to be entertained rather than informed. American society, once we lose a system of information based on verifiable fact, will become disconnected from reality. All totalitarian societies impart their propaganda through manipulated images and spectacles. And the death of traditional news is one more stage in the terminal illness that is ravaging American democracy. The rise of a totalitarian capitalism will follow, and we already have many of the new system’s information networks in place. Corporations will be better positioned than ever to produce self-promotional ‘information’ – better described as ‘propaganda’ – that can masquerade as ‘news.’ The technology actually makes it easier.” – Chris Hedges
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“Our political discourse, our national progress, is being retarded because we have fallen into this discourse by slogan. We have fallen into this relativism where it’s a ‘conversation’ to stop and say, ‘Well, that’s your opinion. My opinion.’ There’s no extension of the argument. You couldn’t win a debate if you didn’t extend the argument, if you just repeated the same thing. We don’t listen well, as a society. When we do listen, we listen in feedback loops to people who are likely to say what it is we think is right, and it won’t surprise you.” John Sexton
“Where the more fortunately educated read to be surprised, the middle-class reads to have its notions confirmed, and deviations from customary verbal formulations disconcert and annoy it. [Thus] the indispensability of cliché to middle-class understanding…The prose demanded by the middle class is preeminently that of institutional advertising and assertions of the banal, as if avoidance of it invited accusations of elitism.” – Paul Fussell
“The years passed, mankind became stupider at a frightening rate. Some had high hopes that genetic engineering would correct this trend in evolution but, sadly, the greatest minds and resources where focused on conquering hair loss and prolonging erections.” – Idiocracy movie
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