"He has a hundred ideas a day. Four of them are good, the other 96 downright dangerous." — from Darkest Hour, although inspired by something FDR said 🍿
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Got sidetracked looking at photos and satellite imagery of Hudson Yards, before and after the current redevelopment project covered half the tracks. Now I want to go back to New York. 🚂
Disappeared (transitive verb)
- to cause (someone or something) to disappear:
- to abduct and kill or imprison (someone, such as a political dissident) while withholding information about the person's fate
This morning I wanted to hear jazz guitarist Jim Hall's Wonderboy, an album I've listened to many times on YouTube Music. But the album had been disappeared, a jarring reminder that streamed music isn't something I own.
Now spinning on the turntable is Concierto, a Jim Hall record I own and expect will remain in my collection unless a jazz afficianado breaks in some night and makes off with it.
YouTube Music's disappearing of Wonderboy is a bit like the federal government regularly disappearing people as if Constitutional terms of service have been changed as streaming subscription terms do. The American Gestapo, in unmarked armor and masks, disappear people from homes, the courts, places of business, and more, lost to secret prisons and night flights to who knows where.
Have we grown accustomed to such disappearings because our subscriptions and commerce have conditioned us to owning very little, perhaps not even our lives, liberty, or the pursuits of happiness?
Small rebellion then, my vinyl record, but I don't trust my subscriptions and sure as hell don't trust this maggot federal government. Better to take ownership of our possessions and our lives than give the American Gestapo tacit permission to disappear things, friends, neighbors in the dark of night we've allowed them to create.
