Klarinet Archive - Posting 000314.txt from 2003/08

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Spozed Wars
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 08:30:06 -0400

At 08:33 AM 8/12/2003 +0100, Tony Pay wrote:
>It's a mistake to think that we have to reduce everything, including politics,
>always and necessarily to a battle between groups of people, each of which is
>trying to force everyone else by any possible means to do what they say we
>SPOZED to do.
>
>In the sane version of events, we are careful to try our hardest to find out
>what the best thing to do at any particular point is, and we then do it, not
>because we spozed to, but because it's the best we can do.
>
>Which American President was it who said, "Well, we're going to try this, and
>see if it works; and if it doesn't work, why, we'll try something else."?
>
>It's WE who say that you ain't SPOZED to think like that, because of what I
>called the 'lure of certainty'. But in a complex world, in any one of a
>variety of circumstances, it may be our only hope.
>
>And we can surely be willing to understand the virtues of being flexible in
>teaching and learning to play the clarinet.

It could be argues that flexibility of that sort is exactly what is going
on. The party not currently in power is saying, "What the other party is
doing does not work. Let's try THIS." With any luck, the party IN power
will listen to its own and those it governs and correct the no-working
things on its own, but the two-party system is in effect to give an option
when that does NOT happen.

As for your attempt to steer us back to clarinet related subject matter, I
absolutely agree that flexibility is required. We are all too different in
oral construction, finger size, etc., for one-size-fits-all solutions. (Of
course, that brings us back to what's wrong in POLITICS again!)

Bill Hausmann

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

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