So I just scanned the Newsweek article. Three generations ago the training of perceptual virtuosity was sacrificed for an economie of scale in every perceptual medium. That's not my profession that did that. But we were the sacrifice. We eat worse, have no sense of smell, write poorly, read more simply, listen to 17th and 18th century junk music, have anesthetized movement after adolescence, destroy the body's sense of time and our visually in the 18th century. We have surrendered all of these developers of virtuosity to mere entertainment and the need for competence and perceptivity is totally visual. That was after the Crash in 1929.
That was when the American brain downsized for a buck. Now why are you surprised? Keith just told me he didn't understand how a fake standard for currency was a social contract. Go figure. Yes pattern, figure, virtuosity applied to a new situation. Know-ledge. An instantaneous response to the application of a pattern to a new situation. Ped-a-gogy. Go figure. Now I'm disgusted. Last year I took a student on who had no languages, little vocal training, trash musicianship and no future. I heard something deep inside. So I taught her for the price of one lesson a week and gave her four. Within a year she is singing in six languages, including Lakota, will give a full recital in opera and art song in August of this year and was accepted by Manhattan School of Music, Mannes College, Boston Conservatory and six other schools. She will go to Manhattan School of Music in the fall where I taught and will study with an international Diva. My letter to them ends with this. " I brought her from .... to .... She could be the next Beverly Sills. Can you get her there? I could." I have to go visit a 90 year old Jewish lady whose brain is not downsized. It's just her body. What a waste. REH From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Gurstein Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2010 1:50 PM To: 'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION' Subject: [Futurework] FW: [p2p-research] newsweek on The Creativity Crisis -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michel Bauwens Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2010 4:03 PM To: Peer-To-Peer Research List Cc: [email protected] Subject: [p2p-research] newsweek on The Creativity Crisis http://www.newsweek.com/2010/07/10/the-creativity-crisis.html -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/p2presearch_listcultures.org Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Think tank: http://www.asianforesightinstitute.org/index.php/eng/The-AFI
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