The Mix Master Race

XIV. THE DJ

With American industry exported to impoverished slave states (Mexico, Taiwan, etc.), musicians no longer mirror their masters. The ruling class in the US no longer produces, but merely moves money through stocks and speculation; they are the designators of worth. The DJ is their star.
A preposterous poseur, once an adjunct to wedding parties, he is now exalted, featured in advertisements and lavished with wealth and fame. He has become ubiquitous; no event is complete without one of these ninjas "spinning" their records.
Like the rulers on Wall Street, he has no actual talent except to play with other people's labor. His talent is his impeccable taste and his ability to turn junk into gold, like his stockbroking masters. His "scratching" of records is his display of contempt for the labor of his subjects.
The exaltation of the DJ is the ruling class congratulating itself for its good judgement in being born wealthy and in control of the world economy.

Ian Svenonius, from The Psychic Soviet [A Drag City Book], 2006