Keith love,
Three little words. Worth......Worthy.....Worthship (worship). In
the economic world all motivation is external then worth is only cash and
worthiness is who has the most cash and then who do we worthship?
Morpheme connects to WER (Teutonic) which relates "to speak" and "to
become" in the other brother's parent's language as well.
Worth is a tough one. It relates not only to value but to becoming. A
kind of challenge if you are to be both or we could say a balance. Your
worth (economic) is tied to your becoming (moral or cultural). Since the
first meaning is economic or "equal in value to, deserving of" from the same
prefix WER: to guard, to keep as also WER: base of "word" or to speak.
Worth first is tied to value and then, second to WERT which means to turn or
to become. It is possible that my OEDEL, being modern, puts the "equal in
value to," "deserving of" first because it is Post Economic Revolution to
do so. But if it is not, then the issue is being stuck in a historical
English language process that first values cash before you deserve to
"become" which locks the poor in as rigid a caste system as any religion
ever desired to do. That is pretty much the elitist neo-conservative
(US) Reagan/Bush approach.
If that is the case then the question could legitimately be asked as to
whether historically English is capable of valuing inner thought or
motivation if you are not a person to be worthshipped? i.e. whether it is a
stretch to try to express inner motivated cultural or even spiritual terms
in English at all. In Cherokee and all Native American languages, in the
beginning we are all shaped by our language, then we tear the language apart
to arrive at the inner life of dialogue or relationship in the "voice of the
wind" (Art) only to discover humility in our Artifice. (see Journey of
Quetzalcoatl). This is expressed in our understanding of the Four Sacred
Mountains of life or the Four Directions. David Boehm thought that this
was more accurate for Quantum reality than the Indo-European children's
expressions.
We are taught to read the seven definitions beneath each word and then to
construct various formulas from different organizations of those seven
definitions in a sentence. That is why I read the sub-text of Who, What,
When, Where, Why, How and Whether of your "observation". It is a part of
both my original culture and my discipline as a performing artist.
(Stanislavski "An Actor Prepares" and "Lame Deer Seeker of Visions.")
This is the reason that we voice teachers have always tried to escape
English, putting the sister language of Italian and even the brother
language of German first in the communication of our deepest thoughts
through music. It is better to teach the young voice students the purity
of vowel and meaning to be found in Italian than the ugliness of English.
(Of course they ignore the Coliseum so close to the Vatican) I don't
believe this "ugliness/impure" thing myself but I have often heard it spoken
by my colleagues. I tend to love all language and find it fascinating but
I like Hip-hop and Country Western music as well as all of those nasty
contemporary composers. Hell, I just like life and art.
But if one is limited by the meanings of their languages then that speaks
tons about the future of work in their Creative imagination and I believe in
the future of their culture. A sleazy waffling by changing the meanings
of words for each occasion is fun but ultimately Coyote is killed as are all
tricksters. They are always revived but no human can ever survive being
one. Not even Messiahs.
REH
----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Magic Circ Op Rep Ens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 8:12 AM
Subject: Re: Musings on the FTAA
> Cor, Ray!
>
> First of all, you say that I have elitist assumptions, and then that I'm
an
> aristocrat! Your argument is full of non sequiturs and assumptions as to
> what I believe -- as opposed to non-value descriptions as to what is
> actually happening.
>
>
> At 21:04 26/04/01 -0400, you wrote:
> >So after this nightmare of bad attitude by police and military what you
get
> >is the answer to all of these problems. Privatize and do away with the
> >only control that the average person has (elections). Well that is an
> >elitist assumption if I ever heard one.
>
> I'm not necessarily saying that we *should* privatise. (Remember that all
> of the following is in the context of a Labour Government -- still to the
> left of the Democrats in America.) In the State education system, the
> Ministry of Education is now experimenting with business-sponsored
schools,
> speciality schools (with selective intakes). Senior politicians are also
> talking about giving the universities once-and-for-all endowments from the
> public purse and then cutting them loose. They're also watching the
> American experiments with vouchers and charter schools very closely.
> Meanwhile, independent (private) schools are thriving and, in the State
> system, teachers' morale is collapsing. Unless huge changes are made in
> their schedules by the autumn (reducing hours of work from 50-odd to 35
> hours, reducing hours of form-filling for the local and national
> bureaucracies), there'll very likely be a prolonged strike.
>
> I have already described that the police forces are almost completely
> demoralised and are steadily going downhill and do not need to say more.
In
> the Army (we have no conscription -- and, indeed, it would be politicially
> impossible), the number is now well below the full complement of 110,000
> and a senior General says that there's no hope of filling it in the years
> to come -- despite great attempts to recruit boys and girls directly from
> schools in the most poverty struck areas of our cities, and despite
> actually trying to recruit beggars and buskers from the streets.
>
> Do they have a draft in the
> >English military? Oh yes the other bad thing was education. Unions
came
> >in for a little compliment but not much. Well over here privitization
of
> >health care has caused a local medical teacher I know to recommend that
the
> >best deal for his specialty is the military or socialized medicine. Not
> >much pay but the perks are good and the early retirement provides payment
> >for medical school expenses and gives a capital nest egg once retired for
> >further work. You can also do research if you are so inclined. Oh yes
and
> >they are officers. Gee Keith are you really that much of an
aristocrat?
> >Or has English culture just folded up its collector's tent and gone awol?
> >Maybe they need to drag old Jeremy through the streets of London and let
him
> >see what he has created and then bury him.
> >
> >By the way I know a nice young couple that has just moved to Bath and is
> >interested in choruses.
> >
> >Regards,
>
> As to our friends, put them in touch with me if they want to join a choir
> and I can give them some thumb-nail descriptions of the different choirs.
> We have all sorts here -- including one snobby bunch singing modern stuff
> whose conductor is presently fixated on a composer who recently asked its
> basses to sing an octave and a half above the tenors for 30 or 40 bars
> (measures to you)! Not asked, actually, but told them. The rehearsals
> ruined their voices so much that when they sang in performance in Wells
> Cathedral they simply couldn't sing at all -- even when in their normal
> register. (Nobody in the audience noticed, of course -- the music was so
> weird!) The basses were idiots to accede to such a stupid request. Yes, we
> have the lot here! -- the pretentious well as (most) choirs who still
> (thankfully) sing purely for their own enjoyment whatever audiences they
> attract (often in smaller numbers than the choirs themselves!).
>
> No, English culture or music hasn't gone entirely AWOL (despite the fact
> that the Government has excluded music from the basic school curriculum).
> The sort of culture that you and I are interested in is now confined to
the
> "genuine" middle class -- about 25% of the population. Of course, the same
> 25% is also running the rest of the show (that is, the economy, industry,
> academe, the vast panoply of NGOs and voluntary organisations, etc). Wow!
> Does that make me an aristocrat? Honest, Ray, I'm only describing reality,
> not what I wish. (Incidentally, this 25% still vote in General Elections,
> but recently I've even heard of one or two intellectuals who say, as I
say,
> that not voting at this juncture in history is probably more constructive
> than voting for any of the existing parties -- two of them still deep in
> sleaze.)
>
> Anyhow, best wishes, and I'm glad we're still friends.
>
> Are we?
>
> Keith H
>
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