Mike wrote:
>a model t ford
> in a museum is pleasant to view as an artifact of history but, fairly
> inefficient on todays highways.
Old cars are not better than contemporary cars. What Tako is suggesting is
that a car and a bike are only different kinds of transportation. Although a
bike is more useful for certain purposes ( mostly for pain in the bottom ),
a car ( and mostly a BMW ) is MORE than a bike.
The problem here doesn't have to do with music only, but with categorization
as a whole. Again, the academy has developed a twisted application of an
anthropological assumption: when you research other peoples, civilizations
and eras, you can't judge them according to your perspective. In fact, you
can't judge them at all. You have to be neutral so that what you think does
not blur what you see. However, out of the scientific field, that can't be
done. Eating people is WRONG. Killing virgins as a sacrifice to gods, is
WRONG. If you embrace that perspective, children won't have to be literate,
since people are illiterate in primitive societies and were illiterate in
the past even in our society. Electricity and sewage systems won't be used
as a reference to assess how the basic needs of a certain population is
supplied in a given country, since lack of those services will be considered
just a 'different way to live'. The same goes for the right of minorities,
women, etc.
Than, you say: but the 'left' defends minorities, women, poor people, etc!
Yes, they do, and that's the second twisted assumption: they transformed
what is popular into the highest value, based on another twisted ( TWIST AND
SHOUT ) assumption: popularity ( what is like and accepted by many ) makes
something beautiful and right. If most people are convinced something is
beautiful or right, than IT IS BEAUTIFUL AND RIGHT. If people in a primitive
society believe a stone keeps the universe balanced, than it does for them!
Our science becomes just another 'interpretation', not a BETTER one. The
problem is: there's only one universe, so whatever determines the universe
where that primitive society lives determines the universe we live in too.
That's individuality taken to an extreme. Soon, instead of treating someone
who thinks he is Napoleon, psychiatrists will build a virtual Europe for him
to rule, since HE IS NAPOLEON UNDER HIS POINT OF VIEW.
That's the transformation of sociological value into cultural value. That's
a big mistake. The Beatles are sociologically more important than probably
any other musicians in history, but they're not culturally more important.
Based on what classical musicians did, they were reptiles!!!
That's it,
Caio Rossi
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