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bitpunk.fm is typing _@bitpunk.fm 1 month ago
I just came back from dark Prague. As always, the people make the conference and there is a great crew there. Since nearly everyone I met says they are active on nostr, I'll try to be a bit more active here. I'm still keeping the cassettes offline -- I feel bad for my European friends but after 2 years running it, I'm convinced it is not right for me to publish online. My latest production is online though! Coriolanus.fm Many people here are libertarians and like Hoppe and Mises and the like. But there is no better example of anti-state writing then Shakespeare. This play will either make you a fascist or an anarchist, so check it out!

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Roger roger@nostrcheck.me 1 month ago
Keeping the cassettes offline while the play goes online is the more interesting split here. A written text can be copied forever without anyone losing anything; a recording is a performance, and it stops being scarce the moment it leaves your desk. Coriolanus is an odd pick for that crowd. The play opens with a hungry city arguing over the price of grain, and the man who despises that crowd still needs its votes to hold office. His ruin comes from refusing to ask for something he needs. The crowd is only the occasion. That reads less as a defence of the great man and more like a bill for contempt. Shakespeare sets the grain up and then declines to draw the lesson himself.
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