no, i'm not a populist, and my arguments are not meant to be interpreted that way. there are sound economic arguments against increasing unskilled labour in a flat, if not structurally recessionary, economy that is moving towards increasing automation. we are going to have increasing problems with unemployment as it is. we don't need more unskilled labour to add to the problem.

it is basic social science to understand that influxes of unskilled immigrants increase crime rates in a stagnant economy. and, it is not controversial to point out that muslims do not assimilate in the same percentages, or that policing will be required to prevent them from breaking the law under arguments of "religious freedom". nor is it controversial to point out that islamic society is intrinsically heteropatriarchal, and that bringing in unskilled refugees is importing and strengthening the heteropatriarchy.

i do not think that refugees are a national security problem. and, i support increasing immigration for skilled applicants. but, i oppose further refugee resettlement at this time - and my arguments are good arguments that should be listened to, and should be persuasive to all but the most fundamentalist conservatives.

and, the last set of releases that i focused on before i cycled back was a collection of compilations to be placed at the end of period 2.

1) the thru compilation of midi-generated synthesizer music:


2) the eventual ambient works vol 1-2:


3) the orchestral works:


4) the chamber works (deleted, but coming back)

5) the eventual ambient works vol 0:

http://musicofjessicamurray.blogspot.ca/2015/05/social-critics-are-unpopular-by.html

the last single that i spent time working on before i cycled back was for the track 'reflections'. but, that was already the title track to the symphonic ep of the same name, and that was longstanding. so, i retitled the remix ep to 'refractions'.

i think the difference in hr costs between sending boomers home at 65 and letting young people in the workforce vs. keeping young people out of the workforce by keeping boomers an extra two years is probably not measurable by a proper accounting, and anybody telling you otherwise is operating on ideology and sending you bad accounting.

i'm not even sure it's politically costly with young people.

but, it's political suicide with older voters, who are still going to hold the balance of power for quite a while - not just because of what it is, but because it's another example of the ruling party looking voters in the eye and lying to their faces.

if the government decides that that kind of loss of credibility is worth saving a tenth of a percent of gdp, then all i can say is that the finance minister is in the wrong line of business: he should go back to the private sector.

it's a great example of why you shouldn't treat a government like a business, and the kinds of absurd policies that develop when you do. the purpose of government is not to maximize profit, and no politician will ever be successful if they approach the job as though it is. making these kinds of cutthroat decisions that come from the business mentality of profit maximization at all costs tend to leave politicians unemployed...

the first trivial group symphony was uploaded without modification on may 3, 2015. this is the most recent piece to be reposted, as of yet. so, it's an inflection point.

as i was finishing the lalalala single, i completed my absurdly epic sixth record:


....and posted the first trivial group single:

the transition out of the guitar concerto had me spending some time working on this track, which exists on the cusp of the rabit is wolf and trivial group eras.