Like others, I just cannot get around inquiring myself about what I achieved in the past year. I had the courage of finally publishing my music and made the experience that success is not the result of your creations, but the result of having influential acquaintances, who claim to be your friend and – dependent on your degree of submission to their power – constantly repeat their spin about person “x” being an important artist over and over again. These acquaintances may not be the brightest bulbs in the universe, but if there is one thing they learnt in life, then it is how people are opting for what they believe to be the safe majority. The majority does not have to be visible to them, it entirely suffices to have the illusion of it. And this can be accomplished by exposing these people with the same message over and over again until they finally believe it and automatically associate the desired message with person “x”.

Whenever someone is blathering about artist “x”’s significant achievements, it surely is a good idea to have a close look at the person making this assertion. What are the arguments, are there any hints that this person has the expertise to competently judge someone’s creation at all? Mind you, I am not trying to say that people shall not have their opinion, regardless how silly it might be. What I am trying to criticise is someone posing as knowledgable man and selling his own bias and prejudices as proven fact, by stating:
“A” is like that, because I say so
Trying to pose as someone who is authorised to speak for a majority with the goal of artificially inflating his view’s relevance. Let us not forget, everyone speaks about his own opinion in the first place. If you are lucky, you may accidentally speak about something that moves someone else, too. But does that make you the official spokesman of “the majority”? What is “the majority”?

My disappointment lies in trying hard to reach a level of professionalism and expertise that is satisfying my personal needs and then see how other, less gifted and intelligent people come to success just by cheating and posing. Obviously I have something backwards, as my logical fallacy lies in believing that if someone is trying hard enough and truly learns to master something, he will eventually be rewarded. That does not seem to be the case: Perhaps those who I consider dim are the smart ones, as they know they can get to the top because people do not care about their achievements, but the illusion about the latter. You are someone if a bunch of marketeers makes you appear significant to people. Repeat the lie until it becomes true.

So what can I do? Continue with what I am doing and not to care about opinion makers. Speaking up my mind and perhaps meeting people who feel similar about these things. The “great public” as such does not exist anyway. You will always wind up with a small, distorted segment consisting of your own preferences. If some people get together and share their views and can benefit from each other, what is more you could ask for? Thus my ideal achievement for 2008 is to find people sharing similar views and that my netlabel will become a platform for those people and together we could enjoy a good time. And of course I want to shoot better photos, finetune my composition principles, write better articles using the right wording, create better web pages and more appealing designs. But most of all, become wiser and discard some of my silly notions, just to get a better understanding of the world.