just wrapped up a video for Sonstroke
speaks fo' itself
A big thanks to Ben (http://www.youtube.com/user/hessianben) for coming out to Irvine to film us play.
No sooner than this was posted I caught wind of the murder
of seven Sikhs in Wisconsin. As I write this, it's not known what the motive
was other than tattoos that appear to point to "political" motives.
In turn, the event is being treated as "terrorism" because it may
have had political and/or social objectives. Sonstroke references
fundamentalism, of the religious sort, and in particular the violent and
controlling types. The degrees of control vary, and there are plenty of
fundamentalists that are not violent, or religious for that matter.
Thinking about this attack, I'd paint any philosophy that
leads to violence as fundamentalism, as it seems expressing ideas to the point
of aggression says: “I know The Truth, I own The Truth, and I own non-believers.”
This expression via aggression is indeed
non-sense.
One idea I wish more people held fundamentally, if anything, is the belief
in the worth of a good NAP (non-aggression principle). I'm guessing this recent
attack on Sikhs was by a racist that hadn’t slept on the sense of his ideas. Obviously, he thought he was right, but perhaps he didn't look for evidence to the contrary (or believe it), in other words, he was a fundamentalist. It’s not
the first time a fundamentalist has killed and beaten Sikhs and "others," and sadly it won’t be the last.
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