Yeah, unfortunately (as uninteresting I personally find it) politics does not remove itself neatly from Folk. So I tried to remove people from politics but was scoffed at and insulted and disregarded and ridiculed by people that I thought were my friends. I can't imagine why anyone would care let alone be adamant about anything about politics, but hey, you can believe that ice-cream sandwiches were your God and Spaw was King of the World and I'll help you fight anyone that tries taking that away from you. I'm sure you're all agreeing with me right now but...

That also means you can believe in fascism or communism or sadomasochism or that chocolate ice cream is inferior to vanilla, none of my business and I will support your right to believe whatever you want. Now I've lost some of you. As an American, I don't understand how one can get lost there but some do. Boggles me, you do. More confusing than LSD but you do think that YOUR ideology is reality.

What I'm talking about is freedom and I don't care what you're talking about. I tried to even save that ONE thing, cuz in my research found the subject to be rich and diverse, tragic and ancient. I also found that around the time mudcat was being born that if we perhaps had a better understanding of the ONE thing, we may have been able to influence or prevent 50,000 needless deaths in the mid 90s. If anyone wants to engage me offline I'd be delighted to share some heavy, tragic, and fascinating things. And to be honest, while I've given up on the the players that render it impossible, I haven't given up on even that ONE thing and am still hurting from my decision.

Could not find a single ethnomusicologist, btw, who has ever supported the right to believe in fascism. So I might be the first. Let me know if you find otherwise or call the library of congress and tell em you found some history.

My goals are always less work for the vols, and the data is all just a bucket under my desk and these designations are merely filters on. The data filters an infinite number of ways, and I'm about to turn filtering over to you. Mudcat.2 will allow you to create as many sections as you want, its always and is always one bucket of data.

Seeing where this goes? That a conservative and a liberal can be in the same place without ever seeing each other. Interacting with the data from their perspective without being bothered by the opposition's perspective. The choice of perspective will be returned to you. How about a 1930 to 1940 country and Piedmont blues from North Carolina section? Minstrel Banjo section. People of color section, violent political debate section, won't be able to stumble into that by accident, but you will be able to by design. (which if you build and or choose, we're not going to come in and save your butts from your own bad behavior). You make your own each visit, keep them, trash them share them, ask to be a part of other's share yours. I'm handing over control of the filters to all of you.

*Less work* for the VOLS, more *safety* and like-minded relationships without arguing with other-minded so its *more personal* experience because you have *more control* of it. So you won't be able to *blame me* anymore for your sociopathy. And so it'll be just like life, you will have no one to blame, but yourself.

And the world will be right.