At 21:22 05/02/2013, REH you wrote:
I wonder how Von Hayek justified such things.
Von Hayek doesn't have to justify such things. Nature does that
automatically. It's called instinctual rank-ordering in the 5,000 mammalian
species. "The poor you will have among you always" (John 12:8).
Keith
Should the name of his book have been the road to becoming like the "Man
who freed music?" REH
1) ROSSINI MEETING WITH BEETHOVEN (1822)
"At Vienna, I heard for the first time one of his symphonies, the EROICA.
This music knocked me over. Henceforth I had but one idea: to make the
acquaintance of this great genius, to see him... When I mounted the stairs
leading to the poor lodgings of the great man, I barely mastered my
emotions. When the door opened, I found myself in a sort of attic terribly
disordered and dirty. I remember particularly the ceiling. It was under
the roof and showed crevices through which the rain could not help pouring
down in streams...The voice was soft and slightly veiled. When we entered,
at first he paid no attention to us but for some moments remained bent
over proofs which he had just about finished. Then, raising his head, he
said in fairly comprehensible Italian; "Ah! Rossini, you, the composer of
The Barber of Seville! My congratulations; that is an excellent opera
buffa; I have read it with pleasure and enjoyed myself. It will be played
as long as Italian opera will exist. Do never try your hand at anything
but opera buffa; you would be doing violence to your destiny by wanting to
succeed in a different genre...Serious opera does not lie in the nature of
the Italians. For the true drama, they know not enough of the science of
music..." The visit was short. That is easily understood because one side
of the conversation had to be carried on in writing. I expressed to him
all my admiration for his genius... When I descended those dilapidated
stairs, I retained of my visit to this great man an impression so painful-
thinking of this destitution and shabbiness- that I could not repress my
tears."
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Two interesting articles in today's Alternet:
<http://www.alternet.org/2-years-jail-sitting-milk-crate-shocking-ways-america-punishes-poor-people-living-street-hard-times?akid=10013.1074389.mfPcLS&rd=1&src=newsletter789100&t=3>http://www.alternet.org/2-years-jail-sitting-milk-crate-shocking-ways-america-punishes-poor-people-living-street-hard-times?akid=10013.1074389.mfPcLS&rd=1&src=newsletter789100&t=3
http://www.alternet.org/hard-times-usa-would-you-consider-thinking-differently-about-poverty-and-poor-and-homeless-people?akid=10013.1074389.mfPcLS&rd=1&src=newsletter789100&t=5
Ed
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