Mark Devlin - Musical Truth 2

I put my music on the web as a method to spread my message,

People be like, DISL, why you getting so aggressive?

I do it cause Im pissed off,

Our whole lives weve been lied to, cheated, mistreated, deceived and ripped off!

DISL Automatic: Here I Stand (2010)

Im at the age, if I cant teach,

I shouldnt even open my mouth to speak.

Chuck D of Public Enemy: WTF (2012)

Im sick and tired of hearing things,

from uptight, short-sighted, narrow-minded hypocrites,

All I want is the truth,

Just gimme some truth.

John Lennon: Gimme Some Truth (1971)

Ever since I can remember, I have hated deception and duplicity, and discovering Ive been made a mug of has made me angry. My gaining some advanced understanding of the massive degree to which these elements are present in our everyday lives has been the inspiration behind this book being put into the world. Truth wages war against deception wherever it finds it.

Although the information in this book can be meaningfully absorbed in isolation and on its own merits, I highly recommend that it be digested only after reading everything I had to say in the first volume of Musical Truth. This will give an appreciation of the bigger picture, and render everything presented here in its true context. This also saves me having to recap too much on subjects covered in that first book, instead using this one to present new pieces of the puzzle.

The researching and writing of these two books has been as much a learning experience for me as it will be for the readers. On the day you read these words, I (and everyone else) will know so much more than I did on the day I wrote them. But Ill know so much more tomorrow. I learned long ago that its a serious mistake to assume you know everything there is to know about a subject, and Im suspicious of anyone who ever makes so bold a claim. The same limited consciousness also leads an individual to the notion that theyre too smart to be fooled, and cant possibly have been duped and misled about a certain subject in a way that somebody else might be suggesting they have. Im sure were all familiar with this aspect of the human condition through the back-and-forth, concrete-minded arguments that occur every single day on the average Facebook thread or Youtube comments section, reinforcing the old truism that opinions are like assholes everybodys got one.

This is not to say that the ego is not important; a well-balanced, consciously-evolved individual understands that the key to navigating this challenging reality we refer to as life, involves striking a balance between the informed consciousness that comes from a connection to our higher selves, and keeping one foot firmly planted in the real world, where we have our physical experiences that are unique to the human condition, and through which our souls undergo so much of their essential growth.

It is this process of continual evolution that has brought the necessity for this second volume. In so many ways, the first only just scratched the surface. As I have delved ever further into the complex, often dark, but continually fascinating question of who really controls the world of entertainment, and the agendas for which its really being used, Ive come to realise that it goes so deep, that even an entire human lifetime dedicated exclusively to full-time research still wouldnt provide all of the answers! All that any of us can do, therefore, is take on as much understanding and knowledge of these subjects as our time here allows.