Klarinet Archive - Posting 000113.txt from 2002/04

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Shocking
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 01:25:53 -0500

At 07:32 PM 4/2/2002 -0500, Mark Gustavson wrote:
>How does civility fit in here? No laws were broken. Too bad a discourse
>amongst "whoever cared to recognize each others realities" didn't truly break
>out , then perhaps we would have had a dialectic and learned something about
>ourselves rather than resorting to a variety of mindless worn out cliches.
>Ignoring that we are all individuals and not a part of some group be it the
>moral, the amoral, the swear word haters, the swear word lovers, the bored,
>thee polite, etc. is unartful. If someone wanted to use a certain word, that's
>how that person wanted to be revealed. One should have addressed the person
>who wrote it. It was about that person and whomever else. It's not about what
>is right. It's about recognizing a person other than ourselves.
>
>This discussion has to do with clarinet because clarinet is a way to realizing
>music. To understand art one must go to it. How one goes about this thread
>reflects the way one goes about the clarinet. Tony has strengthened the person
>he is to me because I have a better idea of who Tony is than I did before. I
>wish I had had the chance to jump in sooner.

No, no laws were broken, except those of Miss Manners. Something does not
have to be illegal to be wrong.

If one chooses to reveal himself by crude language, we will certainly get a
clearer picture of him. I would suggest that it is not as pretty a picture
as we would have had otherwise. That truly IS the choice of that person,
but he should not object when others have a bad reaction to it and think
less of him because of it. He knew it would happen, and indeed expected
and even welcomed it, before he said anything. I think it is a selfish
thing to do. "Recognizing a person other than ourselves" means being
sensitive to others' reactions, which would include NOT deliberately
attempting to shock them just for the heck of it.

Bill Hausmann bhausmann1@-----.net
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Essexville, MI 48732 ICQ UIN 4862265

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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