In Defense of Hardworking Songwriters and Musicians
A short essay appearing in the Music Industry Arts monthly newsletter “Bandwidth”
Recently, an article titled “In Defense of Downloading” by one Matthew Dusenbury found it’s way to my email inbox. The short essay features a curious moral circumvention of intellectual property rights, major record label’s shortcomings since the inception of our beloved Internet, and a dramatic betrayal of fan trust. The proposed course of action was indeed a scandalous one: download music illegally! As evidenced by this article’s very existence, our young technology laureate’s views are not what you would call congruent with my own.
Stop Playing With Our Food: A Look at the Food Industry and Food Science
A term paper for a Popular Culture Course at Fanshawe College
There is not a single scientist or corporation that knows enough about how natural food works yet who could change, process, or recommend anything else without adversely affecting the health of society as a whole. Food Science is too new to test on humans and the food industry is battling government regulations while western culture battles western diseases. The fight of the former succeeds at the expense of the latter largely because of burgeoning nutritionism ideology.