O «peakoil» chega á música popular «mainstream» co último disco de Muse

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1. No segundo vídeo —unha clara alegoría da carreira imposible do crecemento continuo fuxindo permanentemente da crecente entropía ata que esgotamos a enerxía dispoñible— hai un momento no que un coche coa matrícula “Helium 3” aparece no camiño dos rapaces que fuxen do caos. É moi revelador que o coche sucumbe totalmente ao caos, querendo dar a entender, na miña opinión, que os miragres tecnolóxicos non existen e que estas falsas promesas de salvación enerxética da Humanidade van quedar en nada.

   “Helium 3” é o selo discográfico que edita os discos de Muse, unha subdivisión da Warner, pero tamén é, segundo di a Wikipedia…

   El nombre de la discográfica se deriva de Helio-3, un raro isótopo del helio, gas noble que teóricamente podría utilizarse en el futuro para la producción de energía a través de la fusión.

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2. Velaquí un dos fotogramas subliminais do primeiro dos vídeos (o do tema “Unsustainable”).

   Imaxino que están insertados para provocar desasosego no espectador baixo a imaxe de frialdade coa que a suposta presentadora nos explica que a nosa civilización está fodida!

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3. Nalgún web adicado a temas musicais está tamén poñéndose de relevancia a relación do vídeo co peakoil. Un exemplo: MUSE PREACH PEAK OIL AWARENESS IN NEW DUBSTEP TRACK “UNSUSTAINABLE”

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4. Máis comentarios ao respecto nunha entrevista coa banda publicada por The Guardian:

   http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/sep/30/muse-2nd-law-tour-interview

   (…) The 2nd Law, an album which encompasses the global economic crisis, peak oil theory, food security, evolution, the taxation proposals of 19th-century economist Henry George and the concept of the “stress nexus”. “It’s talking about the second law of thermodynamics and how, as a limited ecosystem, we are on the verge of needing an energy revolution in order to sustain the way that we’re living,” says Bellamy. “This inner strength we have, this desire to evolve and expand and explore, I do love that about humanity. At the same time it’s scary what it does on a global scale. I’m very much caught between the two.” Bellamy is self-aware enough to have considered the quandary of criticising overconsumption while traversing the globe in a gas-guzzling stadium rock band. “Exactly! We’re all a function of the world. I think for every finger you point out there should be three pointing back at you.”

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5. Máis sobre as ideas de Bellamy nese mesmo artigo:

   I suspect Bellamy’s politics are often overlooked because (a) he has never aligned himself with a specific cause and (b) he frames them in such a blockbuster manner that people assume he’s joking – which, he insists, he is not. (…)

   (…) He defines himself as “a left-leaning libertarian – more in the realm of Noam Chomsky.

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6. Máis información sobre o interese do grupo no tema do peakoil:
   http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=10835133

   Talking to Muse frontman Matt Bellamy, he comes across as such a normal, everyday chap. At times he’s serious as he talks about the inspiration behind his band’s latest album, The 2nd Law, which refers to the second law of thermodynamics. That’s a theory about unlimited growth being unsustainable in this world of ours, by the way. So basically the album is about – you guessed it – the slow, self-inflicted death of the planet.

   “The news is obsessed with growth. It’s like this paradigm that we’ve accepted of growth and producing more and more – and it’s caused so much harm to the environment, health, and the list goes on and on,” he says earnestly.

   (…)

   (…) they came up with the idea for an album about the depletion of energy sources around the world, both in terms of natural resources and in human beings themselves? What gives?

   “That’s a good question,” he laughs again. “I suppose I’ve always been vaguely interested in that subject.”

   He remembers back to when he was in his teens, reading about the concept of Peak Oil at school and thinking “the oil is going to run out”.

   “That was probably the first time I realised that maybe things aren’t forever. And I think that thought got me interested in various things over the years, my interest in sci-fi and space, our relationship with space and the Earth, and evolution, and about how energy works.

   “And the energy that I suppose we all need to live; the physical energy and the emotional and spiritual energy; I’ve always been intrigued by it.”

   (…)

   Bellamy got the initial inspiration for The 2nd Law after watching a panel discussion about the financial crisis hosted by outspoken BBC Newsnight presenter Jeremy Paxman.

   “Somebody said, ‘you have to admit, an economy based on endless growth is just unsustainable’. That really jumped out at me. I went, ‘f***, there you go. Someone has finally said it’.”

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7. Máis: http://www.news.com.au/news/muse-combine-love-and-science/story-fnejnl1p-1226481773639

   Bellamy started delving into the scientific reasoning behind the ebb and flow of energy after watching the news one night in the studio in the middle of making the record.

   The hot topic was the ongoing fallout from the global economic crisis, which got him thinking about those high school lessons on peak oil, the moment when the planet runs out of petrol.

   “I remember there were warnings it would happen around now as I am watching the news. I started wondering why people aren’t talking about this stuff,” he says.

   “All everyone talks about is growth. From there I read about energy depletion and linked it all together in the songs The 2nd Law part one and part two.”

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8. Oiço esta banda há uma década, mas ainda não tinha dado atenção a est álbum. Obrigado por este post, tenho de comprar o CD. Deixei algumas impressoões no meu blogue, em inglês.

   Abraço.

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9. Obrigados, Luís. Agora grazas a ti temos tamén un post en inglés para espallar esta obra e que poida achegar algo máis na difusión popular do problema.

   Sería interesante contactarmos con Matt Bellamy… a ver se algún de nós o consegue e nos pode explicar un pouco máis acerca da mensaxe que queren trasmitir.

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10. Curioso o tipo este, o Bellamy. No wiki que apuntades no artigo aparecen as súas ideas sobre o acaparamento de terras, neste link http://www.musewiki.org/Explorers_%28song%29

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11. O que comenta casdeiro do helio 3 tamén aparece nesa outra canción cando di “But when the black gold’s in doubt There’s none left for you or me Fuse helium-3, our last hope” Parece que confían en que nos salve a fusión nuclear, entonces.

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13. Camba, e non será que pasaron de crer na fusión nuclear como saída a velo como algo que non funcionará nesta outra canción? Se cadra as compuxeron en momentos diferentes e quixeron mantelas no mesmo álbume para deixar a porta aberta a unha interpretación ambivalente. Non sei…

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14. Volvo ver estes vídeos despois dun tempo e sego a marabillarme coa potencia alegórica de “2nd Law: Isolated System”. Poderiamos ver os rapaces que van caendo alcanzados pola entropía como os diferentes países ou clases sociais que van sufrindo antes as consecuencias (que “van por barrios” como soemos dicir) desta crise terminal. E a última rapaza, a que comprende que fuxir para diante é inútil, representa se cadra o momento en que unha sociedade decide deterse, deter a tola carreira polo crecemento, reflexionar e virar mesmo cara atrás, para desandar un treito do camiño, volver a niveis máis baixos de complexidade e enerxía e asumir o colapso como unha vía inevitable, pero agora, consciente (salta dentro do caos, non resulta alcanzada por el tras caer ou ir menos rápido do que a entropía). Unha alegoría potentísima, na miña opinión.

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