Energy 'Independence'

Does it seem weird to anyone else that the drive for 'energy independence' comes from the political left. While that end of the spectrum is also tied into ideals of community and connection with fellow human beings (in their ideal) - but then the push for energy independence argues that 'we' cannot be connected or tied or 'dependent' on anything or anybody else it is a throwback to classical liberalism. Fear of interconnection is perhaps what is driving the atomization and hyper-individualism that drives aggressive self-protective action in the first place (which is what removing 'dependence' is supposed to prevent). But, perhaps, its not as contradictory as it seems - we cannot take aggressive action if they have a card to play (the lifeline on our energy supply) - so energy independence is a prerequisite to military aggression. Just as 'independence' or seeing oneself as separate from another is a pre-requiste to violence in any realm.

Capitalism Contra Kierkegaard/Existentialism

If we take the existential concept that 'the dread of freedom' is a fundamental component of the human condition in which the self lives in a sort of sickness unto death where one fears taking responsibility for ones life or when one is "crippled by the existential dread of freedom and burdened b ya sense of self". I think that there is some everyday expression of this fear when one finds oneself with free time and is overcome with anxiousness instead of feeling relaxed (because you feel that you have to do work or do something meaningful etc. etc.). Now consider mundane labor, and the Marxist concept of labour-power and how a worker can pour their lief force their species being into labour that they no longer own functionally selling their 'self' to the capitalist for the time period that they are working. They are selling the eight hours that they work (9-5 for example) to someone else. Could this be read instead of the founding psychologically dilemma of capitalism but instead as a line of flight from the 'dread of freedom' and functionally subletting or delegating one's 'dread of freedom' or selfhood to the capitalist. As you lose your self you lose the sense of self that creates the dread of freedom.

Playlist Work Order - Headphone Music

it is my belief that just as there are some songs that are only really good with the volume on the speakers cranked up there are some songs that uniquely take advantage of headphones in that you can hear small noises and it can play with the left/right headphone (like having the sounds of a galloping horse go 'through your head').

Not the Best Example - But an example The Album Leaf's - Malmo

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