Showing posts with label profit motive. Show all posts
Showing posts with label profit motive. Show all posts

Sunday, August 9, 2026

The dangers of the new hantavirus

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Thursday, August 6, 2026

K-pop is not about the music: selling out

 
We're backed by very evil and rich corporations
Like Korean Buddhism,* K-pop (Korean 케이팝, RR Keipap, "Korean popular music") is a best-selling creation originating in South Korea [2]. The music genre that the term is used to refer to colloquially emerged in the 1990s as a form of youth subculture, with Korean musicians influenced by Western dance music, hip-hop, R&B, and rock [3, 4, 5].
(BTS Inc.) What do fans want, divas or gay dance rapper thug life?

(No Na) "Honk!" It's the future of all music, like Indonesia's no na (lol)
One day we'll be bigger than Blackpink
Today, K-pop commonly refers to the musical output of teen "idol" acts, chiefly all-girl groups and all-boy bands, who emphasize visual appeal and performance [6].

As a pop genre, K-pop is characterized by its melodic quality and cultural hybridity [7, 8, 9]. K-pop can trace its origins to "rap dance," a fusion of hip-hop, techno, and rock popularized by the group Seo Taiji and Boys, whose experimentation helped to modernize South Korea's contemporary music scene in the early 1990s [10, 11, 12].



We're not manufactured product! We're natural
Their popularity with teenagers led the music industry to focus on this demographic. Lee Soo-man of SM Entertainment, who developed the Korean idol system in the late 1990s, created H.O.T. and S.E.S., the "first generation" of K-pop [13].

By the early 2000s, TVXQ and BoA had achieved success in Japan and gained traction for the genre overseas [14, 15]....

ROSE and PSY perform "APT." (live from Summerswag 2025)

By 2019, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) listed South Korea as the 6th largest music market in the world [116], with boy band BTS alone accounting for $4.65 billion, or 0.3%, of South Korea's GDP [117].


Blackpink, biggest in the world?
In 2024, IFPI declared K-pop the leading global genre in unit sales, across both physical and digital formats. Seventeen of the top 20 albums on the IFPI Global Album Sales Chart that year belonged to this genre [118, 119] thanks to BTS, Blackpink, solo Rosé, Katseye, and a few others. More

*Korean Buddhism for a changing Korea
Standing guard statue (one of the Four Heavenly Sky Kings) in a Korean temple, Korea
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Dalmado by Gim Myeong-guk
Korean Buddhism began in the 4th century CE during the Three Kingdoms Period. Centuries after Buddhism originated in [Gandhara, now modern Afghanistan] and Magadha [a Buddhist territory later brought into the empire under the umbrella term "India" under Buddhist Emperor Ashoka], the Mahayana tradition arrived in China through the Silk Road in the 1st century CE, then entered the Korean peninsula in the 4th century, from where it was transmitted to Japan.

In Korea, it was adopted as the state religion of three constituent polities of the Three Kingdoms Period, first by the Goguryeo (aka Goryeo) in 372 CE, by the Silla (Gaya) in 528 CE, and by the Baekje in 552 CE [1].

Korean Buddhist monks Haeinsa
Korean Buddhism is distinguished from other forms of Buddhism by its attempt to resolve what its early practitioners saw as inconsistencies within the Mahayana Buddhist traditions that they received from foreign countries.

To address this, Korean Buddhists developed a new holistic approach to Buddhism that became a distinct form, an approach characteristic of virtually all major Korean thinkers.

Sam Taeguk symbol, Korean Buddhism
The resulting variation is called Tongbulgyo ("interpenetrated Buddhism"), a form that sought to harmonize previously arising disputes among scholars (a principle called hwajaeng 和諍) [2].

As it now stands, Korean Buddhism consists mostly of the Seon [Zen] Lineage, primarily represented by the Jogye and Taego Orders. The Korean Seon has a strong relationship with other Mahayana traditions that bear the imprint of Chan teachings as well as the closely related Zen.

Other sects -- such as the modern revival of the Cheontae lineage, the Jingak Order (a modern esoteric sect or Vajrayana), and the newly formed Won -- have also attracted sizable followings [3].

Korean Buddhism has contributed much to East Asian Buddhism, especially to early Chinese, Vietnamese, Japanese, and Tibetan schools of Buddhist thought. More
American dance hegemony hits South Korea, Japan...and now Indonesia
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Tuesday, July 21, 2026

Western boxing vs. Eastern martial arts


Another one bites the mat (Yi Long Shaolin)
When it comes to fighting or avoiding a fight at all costs, we have to look at our friendship bracelet that read "WWBLD?" Of course, that stands for "What would Bruce Lee do?" Following the Zen way of the Tao, noninterference with the flow of nature, we'd go around trouble and pick the path of peace. But, y'know, as Kwai Chang Caine found out so many times, sometimes trouble finds you. Then in that case, redirect the violent opponent's own energy against that person.

Buddhist Shaolin kung fu warrior monks
Shaolin Buddhist temple Zen (Chan) monks demonstrate wonders of Shaolin kung fu
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Shaolin Goddess of Compassion
Shaolin kung fu (Chinese 少林功夫, Pinyin Shàolín gōngfū, Shaolin Wushu, 少林武術, Shǎolín wǔshù, Shaolin quan, 少林拳, Shàolínquán), is the largest and most famous style of the martial art of kung fu. It combines Mahayana Buddhist, Chinese Chan (Zen) philosophy, and martial arts [1]. It was developed in the legendary Shaolin Temple (monastery) in Henan, China during its 1,500-year history [2]. In Chinese folklore there is a saying, "Shaolin kung fu is the best under heaven." It indicates its superiority among the martial arts. "All martial arts under heaven originated from Shaolin," which indicates its influence on other martial arts. The name "Shaolin" is also used as a brand for the external styles of kung fu. Many styles in southern and northern China use the name Shaolin. More

It can't be real! Training's way too hard!

Kill 'em All and Fight Til Death
Call me a Pollack, and I kill you.
Best known as "Andrew Golota," Andrzej Jan Gołota (born Jan. 5, 1968) was a Polish professional boxer who competed from 1992 to 2013. He challenged four times for a heavyweight world title, by all four major sanctioning bodies, and as an amateur won a bronze medal in the heavyweight division at the 1988 Olympics. Despite his accomplishments and more than 40 professional wins, Golota is perhaps best known for twice being disqualified against Black American boxer Riddick Bowe for repeated low blows to the groin in fights that Golota was winning. On Oct. 4, 1997, he became the first Pole to challenge for a heavyweight boxing crown when he fought WBC champion Lennox Lewis at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City. He had a bout with Mike Tyson in 2000, which he first withdrew from, but afterward was ruled no-contest. In Nov. 2016, Golota was inducted into the Illinois Boxing Hall of Fame. Favorite music? Probably brutal Polish death metal band Vader? More


  • Boxing Game; BBC Sacred Wonders; Pfc. Sandoval, CC Liu, Seth Auberon, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
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Wednesday, July 15, 2026

SNL impressions; a new Lindsey Graham?

(Mojocore) Best SNL impressions of Trump's team of criminal incompetents, Zionist warmongers
(The Daily Show)

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Monday, July 13, 2026

Lindsey Graham dead, Mitch McC undead

Lindsey Graham (dead Trump sycophant), Mitch McConnell comes back to life. Graham: "I'll do everything I can to...die quickly" (RollingStone.com)
(Raw America) Weekend at Mitch's (Memes laugh at dead Republican who's still voting?)
Warmonger Zionist Lindsey Graham
Mitch McConnell is alive again?

Narcissist sociopath Trump out of his mind

Delusional Trump discombobulated
Iran seeks psych help for Trump
Trump is a genocidal, psychopathic [malignant narcissist] war criminal,
unhinged imperialist bully, blackmailer, liar, and propagandist
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Friday, July 10, 2026

Bibi, Israel, Iran, boring politics | Death Metal

It's blood libel to say we did what we did!

Help preserve the Jewish-Zionist genocide: The Nakba, Part II: Gaza
(Secular Talk) Israeli Crime Minister Bibi's Israel panics as an archive of Israel's genocide through a website is established to document all of homicidal Zionist Ashkenazi Israel's atrocities, extermination campaigns, media blackouts, murdering of journalists, war crimes, crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing, and confirmed genocide | The Kyle Kulinski Show
It's you guys who'll kill me, right? - No, no, Iran
Crime Minister Netanyahu and Israel commit blood libel, telling Pres. Trump "Iran is plotting to assassinate you," implying he must reenter their war and illegally attack modern Persia again. Is this said publicly to provide cover for Trump, who is actually reentering Israel's war to prevent Israel from releasing the Epstein Files it has on him? Is he only succumbing to blackmail, like a guilty pedophile caught in a honeytrap by top spies for Israel Epstein and Maxwell?

Did Israel dream up deliver Iran banner?
(NY Post) How far will hasbara (Jewish Zionist Israeli propaganda) go?

Bibi: Israel doesn't want US money?
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Sunday, July 5, 2026

Did USA cause Venezuela earthquake?


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Tuesday, June 2, 2026

Exposing Sadhguru sex scandal (GuruMag)

That's it! I'm cancelling my subscription to GuruMag. How dare they out me!

Sadhguru sure doesn't know Buddhism
(DhammaPreserve) FAKE Buddha quote? Sadhguru EXPOSED: The Buddha never said that!
Adiyoga (Fan Page) Going to prostitutes while focused on spiritual discourse? [Womanizing while thinking about the Gita?] | [Fraud] Guru | Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev | Adiyoga

Am I the new Shiva?
(Maye Muses) Is [corrupt Godman] Sadhguru a spiritual leader or a dangerous cult figure [organizing murders motivated by greed and megalomania] - GuruMag (The Guru Magazine) expose explained:
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