My hand just hit the send button. It seems to have gone robotic on me:>)) I corrected my comments below:
sorry, REH Thanks Ed. I blew the last line. Got distracted. The perils of a man getting old and sick. It should have read. "Wall Street doesn't get any more credit for dealing with cash than pianists get for playing scales." In other words, it's a pretty shallow and meaningless life that is only concerned with virtuosity. Virtuosity is for doing something significant with. Someone didn't teach this man his book. The massive cultural failures in my generation of followers of the big three from the Middle East is nothing to be proud of. But this is not new. It was written about in the professional war of ideas throughout the 19th century. Men with dispicable lives like, Mill, Bentham, Locke and Jevons preached a story to the world that has brought us to this place. There are plenty of great philosophers of Art like Ruskin in his book "Unto This Last", speaking of the roots of honour in humanity and the place of wealth. Books long forgotten that answered the savants of the present. More books unread in spite of all of the leisure time their virtuosity gives them. But we live in a very shallow time in which Mammon is the only value and we play chicken with the world as if the beauty of the Mountains was our enemy. We literally destroy mountains like the Aliens in the movie "Independence Day" with no Jeff Goldblum to fly into their ship and blow them all to hell for destroying our world. The Aliens are us. Perhaps we are all from Kolob, like the Mormons say, and that's why we care so little about this place. REH From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ed Weick Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2012 8:22 AM To: RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION Subject: Re: [Futurework] Billionaires have it tough. Great rant, Ray. Thanks. Ed ----- Original Message ----- From: Ray Harrell <mailto:[email protected]> To: RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION,EDUCATION <mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2012 9:36 PM Subject: [Futurework] Billionaires have it tough. For someone from Picher who has never taken any kind of welfare and who refused to use the GI Bill because I thought that I could earn my way and did and leave it for the truly needy and I did, the current article below is beyond discouraging. We cooperated and worked our way out of the Picher Lead and Zinc heavy metal private sector Hell hole. Last week I had a cancer excised from an area where there should be none. The only answer the doctors had was the "Arsenic" in Tar Creek where I played as a child and which now leaches from my bones. Frankly I am much more comfortable with Obama's comments about being helped by being American than I am these cry babies. Although I was hurt by Obama's profession primarily I was hurt by the capitalist system's inability to live up to its claim that capitalism could fund serious culture. A claim that took billions of dollars of funding to keep Europe from being communist during the Cold War because Europe values serious culture. When the American Cold Warriors came home they trashed America's budding classical culture in favor of cash. As a 71 year old, if I was starting over today in my Arts, I would move to either Europe or Asia. The attitude of Americans toward serious culture has never been so toxic as from these current "Lords of Wealth." etc.
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