I am thoroughly and completely bored with propaganda or advertising of any kind in recorded or printed/visual artistic mediums. I do not give people money to hear them tell me about about how I should follow their ideologies, whether it be "anarchy", whatever ridiculous "uprising" nonsense people are on about, or anything else. Parodies also bore me. Most noise artists are not funny, not revelatory, utterly banal in their little satires and meme culture. I can appreciate a certain theatricality with noise and power electronics, so long as it is not a "call to action". I look at noise as art, just not generally made by people who go to art galleries, and as such, concepts presented should raise questions, or at least conversations.
What I see is a general shift in sadists VS. masochists. The purported sadists are being integrated with too many masochists, and the lines are being blurred in ways that the sadists dislike, so the purported sadists complain, and therefore welcome the masochists to act as sadists. The problem is that the roles of sadism and masochism are being blurred. Being into noise is inherently masochistic, to some degree, but now, the forum for the type of people who pretend to be sadists but are actually masochists because they only rip the wings off of butterflies until someone bigger than them comes around to "put them in their place", those people are being exposed, as well as people who have an actual vision or idea that isn't necessarily pleasant. Both are masochists, some are more valiant than others, and now the people who out them are not necessarily 100% sadists, but not entirely masochists either, and they have an outlet now. Prior to that, they were 100& masochists, and it was nice. They didn't try to play every show, they just attended with the hopes of getting their heads blown off by noise. Now, I don't know what the hell people go to shows for, I rarely see people come to shows who don't do noise and aren't in it for some sort of "networking opportunity". Total masochism.
Take for instance, the wealthy person who moves above or nearby a music venue, then complains about the noise. Those people deserve to be shot, and they know it.
Also, Sadly, I can't name too many venues that allow loudness, I mean truly loud noise anymore, much less nazi/misogynistic imagery, etc. It has become largely pointless, especially if you're going to be sharing a bill with someone who will complain about not having enough time to set up, and another who takes way too long to set up, and all of them are either sucking off the corpses of former glories and just sucking. And nobody knows how to use their expensive synthesizers.
I have always preferred the idea of noise infiltrating other scenes, and I prefer to go to shows with diverse line ups, in which case, at the very least, it is good to "turn & burn" after pissing everybody off and let the chips fall where they may.
I don't really mind Noise and power electronics becoming more popular. As mentioned above, I still don't see a lot of people showing up, but I'll add that people don't show up typically unless it's an artist who is good-looking, generally, so everyone's subconscious is somewhat to blame for this so called "gentrification" of noise. I am a full-on supporter of ugly and mean motherfuckers with ugly approaches to life, as long as they have basic manners. People who have actually abused and raped people make it bad for those who are just trying to work out their own personal fetishes and traumas, or just their crazy ideas, and I do think it's important to make that distinction in terms of "cancel culture".
