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Finished listening.

William Fortune has a lot of interesting things to say. One thing: More than 20 years later, he is absolutely clueless about the events of 9/11, still believes airliners were "turned into bombs," meaning he hasn't bothered investigating the matter, in the least. And he is a total believer in contagion theory. That said, what he says about the vulnerability of our infrastructure to EMP explosions is spot on. But even assuming you are prepared to "get out of Dodge," what would be the point? Hoping that everything is restored at some future date? How many YEARS will that take? And what about all the madness loosened upon the world in the meantime, are we just gonna tread water? We must never get to that point. If we do, then the game is lost.

The "feel empowered to say no to sex" was quite good and profound. Thank you.

And thanks for the Jane's Addiction music, love the rendition of Ripple, in E vs G, and the addendum of The Other One at the end, good reproduction of the 12/8 time signature.

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yes he's clueless about contagion and 9/11 as are most people. he has to do his job and be an acceptable mainstream guy.

Do you know who is playing guitar on that Ripple? And they do something with added dissonance...it's really great...

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True, but he acts as if he doesn't even know the current mainstream version of the official explanation, still thinks the planes acted like bombs.

They put a Mixolydian spin on Ripple. The flattened 7 note, which is in tension with the root note (unresolved harmonic, vs major 7) creates a sense of dissonance, which is what makes the Mixolydian scale sound like a blue version of the "major" (Ionian) scale. This is what allows the smooth transition into The Other One theme (which is in E dorian, E5 (aka Eno3), Em, Esus4).

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