If you can accurately decode each composer's music type, does it consistently map to their individual personality typology? There seems to be a potential new discipline developing here where a budding musician's quality might be predicted, based on personality, even before they first learn music. Although alarmingly un-democratic, if perfected and instituted, you have a method for filtering non-artists from wasting everyone's time making noise. And, you have a method for identifying and promoting those who are likeliest to create excellence in music.

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I'd caution against new-and-fresh reasons for aesthetics and instead council for purpose. The gothic, medieval, pagan and barbaric atmosphere will continue to be appropriate for the metal arts because history and tradition are eternally relevant to listeners. Complementary to this past-gazing, sometimes nostalgic aesthetic, is one that looks ahead. Industrial and thrash pulled this off by illustrating the cold, dark horror of the present and future. A pessimistic ahead-gazing, rooted in mass enslavement to the inhumane modern machine system and the psychotic, unnatural alienness of the thoughts behind modernity's invention, is just as relevant for black metal listeners.

deathandhell.com describe this deeply pessimistic ahead-gazing in an abundant archive of online fantasy literature.

Crtitique is useful when it is accompanied by goals for problem resolution. Else, we're left with detailed whining that leaves us all depressed.

What's wrong has been explained. Your ten points are an attempt to look at the side effects. They are not ten empty labels for the cause of what's wrong. I don't think side effect reform is the best or the only cure available.

The word you may be looking for is bracer. The spikes are just 60 penny or smaller construction nails. For DIY, you need some metal ring grommets. Fasten them to the punched holes in your leather bracer and push the spikes through.

Clearly this man has never roared down the 405 in a cherry red Corvette, with a fake blonde's silicon boobies lolling over his arm as he snorts another blast of mysterious white powder from the ashtray, thinking about his stock options and how he'd look on a cross.

Materialism and populism are not the elitist spirit being endorsed. Unfortunately, it seems the contrarian crowd of serfs will forever invariably conflates the ideas. It is best to dismiss their bleating.

One common way to take out computers on the internet is the denial of service attack. It is very simple: you flood the machine either with raw data, as in mail and port bombing, or you hit it with hanging questions that force it to think. Each one is no big deal, but when a hundred thousand of them hit, the machine becomes neurotic and cannot tell real data from garbage. As a result, it slows all data down (equally, thank god!) and for all practical purposes goes offline. Something similar happens to both humans and our species as a whole with depression.

First, we deny depression as a species. We are obsessive about diagnosis, analysis, documentation and medication of our problems. Even obscure maladies like anal warts receive reams of focused attention by high-trained and high-paid specialists, conjecturing and thinking and experimenting. In this we can see the old truism "less is more", because the storm of interest in depression in industrial nations has, like a wind blowing papers in a constellation of chaos, ignored what's at the center of the event: depression is brought on by feelings of disconnection from the world.

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