Welcome to the weekend! This newsletter is packed with new sections, stories, links, music, dictators, and Podcasts to tickle your brain.

The Perception Census is a new project from the Dreamachine. The Dreamachine is a creative and educational group based in the UK. According to the website, The Perception Census is one of the largest scientific studies on perceptual diversity ever undertaken. In simplistic terms, the census is studying how different people perceive the same things.

Perception is the way your brain interprets what it sees. Perceptual diversity helps to explain how many people can see the same thing and perceive it differently.

It’s worth the watch, our team is signing up to take part in the census.

Twenty Thousand Hertz is a podcast that talks about sound design and describes itself as a podcast that reveals the stories behind the world’s most interesting sounds. In today’s podcast, the host Dallas Taylor talks about movie trailers and a sound called “The Booj”. The term “Booj” probably doesn’t sound familiar, but after you hear it - it will make sense.

Another fun fact, do you know why a movie trailer is called a “trailer”? It turns out that when trailers were first introduced in the movies than run after the movie not before. Technically when you see a clip for a new movie before the movie starts it’s called a “preview”, but most people still call it a movie trailer. Another shining example of terms we don’t question, that have become lexicons in the language.

Twenty Thousand Hertz is a fantastic podcast and you can find them here.

Today’s rewrite is part of Charlie Chaplan’s Final speech from the movie The Great Dictator.

…To those who can hear me, I say - do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed - the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish…

Soldiers! don’t give yourselves to brutes - men who despise you - enslave you - who regiment your lives - tell you what to do - what to think and what to feel! Who drill you - diet you - treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men - machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts! You don’t hate! Only the unloved hate - the unloved and the unnatural! Soldiers! Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for liberty!

In the 17th Chapter of St Luke, it is written: “the Kingdom of God is within man” - not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people have the power - the power to create machines. The power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.

Then - in the name of democracy - let us use that power - let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world - a decent world that will give men a chance to work - that will give youth a future and old age security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfill that promise. They never will!

Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people! Now let us fight to fulfill that promise! Let us fight to free the world - to do away with national barriers - to do away with greed, with hate, and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness. Soldiers! in the name of democracy, let us all unite!

Final speech from The Great Dictator Copyright © Roy Export S.A.S. All rights reserved

The good news, it seems we have been embroiled in the same battles over and over again and have withstood them all. The bad news is the movie The Great Dictator is a movie from 1940, 80 years later and it’s still relevant!?

The newsletter continues to explode with ideas. It took almost 4 hours to produce this today’s little notes.

Fight the Good Fight, Finish the Race, and Keep the Faith!

Music Notes will include news from the music world.

There are several news stories about the South Korean Supergroup BTS. South Korea has a mandatory military service requirement for men. Several members of BTS are at or above the age of enlistment. BTS also generates an enormous amount of revenue for South Korea, it will be interesting to see if concessions are made.

A song by The Pixies, reimagined, enjoy!

Click on the Apple Music image to listen to the song on Apple Music or on the Spotify Image to listen on Spotify.

“Music can save the world, go to any concert and you will see thousands of people of different backgrounds all singing the same song.”

Be Good,

Johnny