Having a job, going to school, anything that sustains a living (which is sort of necessary) operates with control from the top down. One is under control and usually strictly directed. And the ones with the greatest concentration of the ability to control the surrounding environment are hopelessly out of reach. Communication has broken down.
If one is not in control of one's situation, one becomes apathetic towards the overall outcome of one's own efforts. So we've drifted to a point in which there is almost total external material control, and so, upon finding ourselves adrift amidst forces we can't control, have become anxious with every increasing jostle in the wrong direction.
So the idea is regaining control of one's own freedom of movement mentally and physically. Ultimately in the material world. But with video games like Minecraft, and with social experiments such as free improvisational music, one can exercise a radical freedom of movement within a mental space as a simulation of some time to come. To learn how to reorient an entire society.
Jazz musicians were seeking freedom. Nigerian afro rockers were seeking freedom. The Grateful Dead and all the acid rockers like that were seeking freedom. Hip hop artists in the Bronx were seeking freedom. The extreme fragmentation of the internet is a reflection of an entire population that is seeking freedom. We can hear it in the music. It sounds good to us because the artists were after the same thing. Free radical games like Minecraft feel good to play because they generate those spaces in our heads in which we have free control over the totality of our activity. This is why the word "freedom" itself has so thoroughly crystallized.
This is the progression of all history: those constrained moving towards higher freedom of movement. It is going to happen inevitably. Top down capitalism feeds its children increasingly freedom-generating video games due to increasing demand for psychological freedom-increasing products from those progressively more constrained by ruled society's mechanisms. And more time and energy is going to go to those pursuits, thereby depriving the old order of energy for itself.
And so it goes.
