Klarinet Archive - Posting 001307.txt from 1998/07

From: "Jason Hsien" <jasonavhs@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Classical Music and Young People
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 17:22:45 -0400

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From: Craig Earl Countryman +ADw-cegc+AEA-sunline.net+AD4-

:I'm not exactly sure who was quoted because there was no name given, but I do
:remember making a comment of this sort, so I will reply. There are forms of
:music that are bad, for example rap songs that use the f-word every line,
:sometimes twice or three times per line. I wasn't referring to country or
:something like that -- I think country is bad, simply because I do not like it
:-- but to stuff that just about everyone, other than the audience it appeals
to,
:thinks is bad.

It is still unfair to judge that something is bad just because society has a
problem with it, music or science or whatever. Society thought the sun revolved
around the Earth. I guess that was a very bad theory. Society has a problem with
the youth of today. I guess that perhaps we should just kill all teenagers and
elminate that bad. A lot of religious roups feel that it isn't right for public
schools to over emphasize Christianity and assorted Christian holidays and igore
everything else. I guess that Christian holidays are bad.

I'll even go as far as to say that Society has a problem with Ku Klux Klan,
Aryan Nation and other supremacist groups. I suppose we should just make special
rules for them or kill them all.

You see... that main problem I have with your post is that you seem to be saying
that if Society accepts it, it's good. If Society doesn't, it's bad. You ignore
the simple truth that everyone is significant, and everyone has their own
opinions. If someone likes rap music with the f-word every other line, than who
are you or society to say that is bad? Similarly, if someone feels that the
caucasian race is superior to all other forms of life on this planet (as big and
crude as it might sound to the rest of us), it doesn't mean it's bad, not that
it's good either.

Whether soemthing is good or bad, music or otherwise is not up to society to
judge. If society was always right, we'd be dumb, brainless robots being led
around by Big Brother in the laborious cavern of life, with no goals and no
independant thought.

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