Blueprint ✖✖
> the rulebreakers | out of step
ian mackaye | Pioneer of underground hardcore and indie music | Lifetime of no drugs or alcohol
bands | Fugazi, Embrace, Minor Threat, Teen Idles ✘✘
founder | Dischord Records
bio | Grew up in Washington, D.C. Father was a Washington Post reporter.
noteworthy | Celebrated for his fierce independence and for ejecting bullies from live shows. My brothers and I revered MacKaye growing up in Tulsa for making his own rules.
MacKaye told the online magazine Huck in 2020:
>> "However one rates my fame or whatever the fuck I have, it's worth pointing out that 99.9 percent of the population of the world never has, doesn't, and never will know of me. I don't exist. There are entire, giant cities in Indonesia where not a single person has ever heard of me."
- next time Chapter end
- listening Minor Threat "Steppin' Stone"
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The reality we know 🫣
"How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?"
—Plato, Allegory of the Cave
> in my eyes | darkness and light
The ancient Greek philosopher Plato explored the boundaries of perception hundreds of years ago in his "Allegory of the Cave."
In it, he describes a true or objective reality beyond what we can naturally experience with our given senses.
- As humans, what we see is what we believe is reality.
- That's the only world and reality we know.
But it's not the objective world. It's not reality as we individually understand that word.
Plato believed that enlightenment and reason through education could enable us to "see" beyond what we could otherwise physically see in our immediate world.
- next time "Much of this spending was only negligibly tied to terrorism."
- listening Liars "Vox Tuned D.E.D."
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