Howard,
I apologize to you. I must say, I am entirely taken aback at your extremely
impassioned defense of Danny. This leads me to believe that I may have somehow
inadvertently touched upon some latent issues of your own beyond the scope of
this discussion. I did not mean to allude to anything other than the topic at
hand and I'm sorry if it was so taken.
Best,
Chris
Dr. Christopher Wilke D.M.A.
Lutenist, Guitarist and Composer
www.christopherwilke.com
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On Thu, 2/26/15, howard posner <[email protected]> wrote:
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Lute in the Future again
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Date: Thursday, February 26, 2015, 9:59 PM
On Feb 26, 2015, at 1:33 PM,
Christopher Wilke <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Howard,
>
> I'll be frank. You are having way too much fun tearing
apart the sincere, heartfelt confessions of musicians who -
quite unlike yourself - are struggling to simultaneously
make a living and art in a difficult environment. I could
counter-refute your semantics, but I don't think that would
be productive as I suspect that you're really more
interested in playing "gotcha" logic games than advancing
the discourse.
>
> You are free to disagree and contribute to the
discussion in a constructive way, of course. I would ask,
however, that you consider replying a bit more respectfully
to those of us down in the trenches to whom topic is a more
personal one than it will be to someone such as yourself who
holds no real stake in the matter.
>
> Chris
OK. I’ve waited a few hours and taken a lot of deep
breaths, so this is me being calm.
Danny wrote that he did not understand statements that
unnamed organizations were doing unstated things that
benefitted some unnamed persons and harmed other unnamed
persons. Since any such statement, however
“heartfelt” or however deep in the trenches it
originates, is devoid of information and thus meaningless
for any practical purpose, his remark was so obviously
self-evident that I wonder why he even wasted the 30 seconds
it took to type it.
You responded by calling him a liar.
This was beneath scorn, and certainly beneath you, and I
think my response was measured, inasmuch as I chose to
explain the substance (actually the lack of it) and ignore
the personal attack on Danny. I have no idea why you
thought you could get into a credibility contest with
someone who has never made an ill-considered remark in all
the years he’s been in the lute community, but you are way
out of line. You should refrain from talking
about “respect” until you’ve apologized to him.
And don’t even get me started on "if one were make such
statements, they would represent an inappropriately
dismissive response to the issues under discussion.”
You need to take a step back.
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