On 03/21/2011 11:47 PM, Matt Barber wrote: > My apologies for that remark -- it's not quite how I meant it. I did > not mean this particular discussion or anything anyone here said. What > I mean is that the broad "what is music" discussion overall tends to > annoy me and make me sad, sick at heart, etc. In fact it's one that I > quite enjoy when the parties are discussing responsibly and in good > faith. I suppose I feel the same way about the "is there a god" or > "what is god" question -- it can be a fun and sometimes even fruitful > discussion, but most often there is astonishingly little new territory > to cover, many reasons for nasty partisan disputes and so forth. I > guess I've had too many "potentially distasteful" conversations turn > to actually distasteful ones, so "the discussion" (in the broad sense) > feels distasteful to me. Nothing any of you have said have made me sad > yet. > > Matt
That makes me feel better. I suppose this is a subject that doesn't necessarily belong on this list and most answers on this thread give away the reluctance to discuss it. I don't know if that is a good or a bad thing. Anyway, starts to feel like swimming upstream :). -- ailo _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
