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Author: bradfordlloyd
Date: 2012-03-28 19:49
First cellphones, and now this! What is the world coming to?
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/03/10/fistfight-stuns-patrons-at-chicago-symphony-orchestra/
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Author: FDF
Date: 2012-03-28 21:39
Well, if the passion was about the music, then yes, call for your season pass. If it's about a man hitting a person old enough to be his grandfather because of a box seat, then no. I'd pass on that season ticket.
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Author: Liquorice
Date: 2012-03-28 22:21
Alex- you're like a member of Houston's huge Second Baptist Church judging an old lady who attends a tiny stone church in the north of Scotland. How dare you judge other people's passion?
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Author: EEBaum
Date: 2012-03-29 01:12
FDF:
I'll take either. It shows that someone was awake.
Liquorice:
I don't see what you're getting at.
Something that I think has been lost in society over the past century or two, to a great detriment, is the physicality of passion. There's been a wave of what I would consider passivism masquerading as pacifism, where people are reluctant to say or act or do anything for fear of being rude or sued. As a result of dwindling opportunities to let things hang out, passions and opinions end up repressed, creating a society that is both overly compliant and passive-aggressive.
Without appropriate outlets of non-joy-joy passion, it ends up pent up, until people either snap or become dead to the world.
I'm not saying that people should be brawling left and right in the streets and in the concert halls and so on, but that so limiting our interaction and discourse puts things out of balance, and I'm heartened to see some action now and again.
I can think of equally as many scenarios in which the puncher was out of line, as those in which the old man deserved it. In any case, it seems highly doubtful that both were there out of some sort of perceived "cultural obligation" as I see many audiences to be, and that suggests to me that the orchestra community is alive in the area.
-Alex
www.mostlydifferent.com
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