Klarinet Archive - Posting 000084.txt from 2004/07

From: John Dablin <jdablin@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Non-clarinet topics.
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 18:19:29 -0400

I agree with Walter Grabner that (some of) "the outbursts ... are interesting
and enlightening".

If we were in one room, sitting around chatting, we could all see each other,
hear each other's voices, and know each other as people. E-mail, on the
other hand, is cold and anonymous. If nobody ever posted anything the least
bit off topic, it would be like reading a text book. These outbursts, and
all the other less vociferous discussions, help build a picture of the people
taking part, and suggest the characters behind the names. So I've stayed on
the unmoderated list, it's much more lively and colourful.

Actually, I wonder what picture I evoke, if anything? Probably I'm the quiet
one, sitting at the side and taking it all in, saying something occasionally,
but not getting a word in edgeways very often.

But carry on as we are, I say. There are plenty of clarinet and other musical
topics in between the disputes and arguments, but this is a community of
several hundred real people, and real people will disagree, and fight and
argue. In fact, I subscribe to the view that it is only through such
disputes and arguments that we, as a race, make progress - if everyone agreed
about everything, nobody would ever have to think, and then where would we
be?

John Dablin
Aylesbury UK

... who is now shrinking back into the sofa :-)

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