Hi David; Yeah, well I guess the sky will always be falling in bits and pieces, I'm just saying someone should be minding the store and doing what they can to help people attain some degree of coherence in their world. Literacy isn't limited to winning spelling bee's or being able to rattle off a list of favorite sophisticated literary works, but goes to the issue of giving people the tools they need to grapple with their lives and their place in the world, find some coherence and enabling informed reasoning. Now that we're becoming a more global, the fact that many Americans have trouble with their native language, never mind a second language (which many countries do not find unusual), and the fact that there is such a huge disparity between the have's and have not's here, this all puts Americans at a disadvantage when it comes to how we function (or dysfunction) with each other and our global neighbors. And you're reference to King George and his band of (hyperpatriot/ethnocentric/moneygrubbing) hooligans is understood; I almost said something in the last email about the fact if our leaders act like ignorant neaderthals, how does that help the cause of coherent rational thinking in our culture? And as far as muddling, I would find it far more agreeable to innocently muddle that to rapaciously meddle, which has been the "proactive" and aggressive stance of this administration since day one.
by the way, I sent some interesting links to sites that are devoted to eliminating (or at least controlling) muzak and other noise pollution to the Finale list. maybe it won't amount to much impact, but adding our voices to the call for reform is something that we all can do without a huge commitment of time and personal resources. And, if you recall the musicians strike of 1948(??) it brought international attention to the issues and forced the money making machines of the industry to their knees. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [snip]> >> OR we can just pretend isn't happening, or accept it as the status quo >> and >> do nothing to help prevent it from slipping more. I realize it's part of >> the cycle of human behavior, but without paying some mind to it and >> trying >> to revitalize it periodically (if not diligently) it will fix itself? Or >> isn't it important enough to bother with at all? Muddling through...hmm, >> there's an inspirational approach to life on the planet. > [snip] > > Or we can cry "the sky's falling" as people have done for millenia. > > We're still here. > > I'm sorry you couldn't catch the tongue-in-cheek aspect of the "muddle > through." > > When our nation's leaders are illiterate and ungrammatical, what chance > to you think we music engravers have of changing things? > > -- > David H. Bailey > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
