Nothing like stomach-sick to demolish any plans but there is one saving grace: I didn't watch the (cough) debate on Tuesday night or the puking would have started sooner. This was one brutal day.
The purpose of the article isn't to describe what happened since you only need one word from the previous sentence to know how that went. It went on for hours so this is a loose apology for failing to produce anything.
There has been a bit of a dialog with Doc, the in-between brother, who has blown his mind into space with ideas of all Muslims are bad, abortion protestors are demonized, etc, etc. It's been my privilege not to be related to any dumb fuckers so it's a puzzle on the origin of this thinking. The bigger puzzle is what, if anything, to do about it.
The discussion is as cordial as I can make it and Kannafoot can tell you I have no trouble talking straight-up to people who are deeply-committed to Catholicism / Republicanism. It seems he is more of a neocon than a Goldwater Republican and it's frustrating because he has a better mind than that. Lotho is more of a Goldwater Republican with a bit more inclination toward social liberal / financial conservative and he pulled this out of the air, just as with Doc, since the family has been hard-core Labour for generations.
Information bubbles are likely at the bottom of this and the phenomenon is not limited to social networks insofar as Fox News and talk radio demand cloistering by ridiculing and reviling all other sources of news. It's all very well for individual citizens to ridicule and revile the news and many of us enjoy doing that but it steals from us when that type of thing comes pre-digested from the news service itself. (Blog: Avoiding Information Bubblers on Social Networks)
There's no intention to 'educate' Doc or 'show him the right way' or so. It took him sixty+ years to develop his thinking so he's not going to change nor should he simply because Silas doesn't agree with it.
There's a great deal of interest in discussion as with Kannafoot in which points on which agreement is impossible (e.g. abortion) are set aside and the general approach is find agreement on something and grow the thought from there. Some of those dialogs are here on the blog and this is not a news service so there's never anything edited nor is there any (cough) explanation of what they mean. That last is the single biggest reason I loathe that which passes for 'news' in these wasted times: don't explain it to me, just tell me what happened.
Meanwhile, there was a fortuitous talk with Cat since it's unusual for both of us to be online at this time and that talk was centered on spiritualism in music and any composition which does not deliver it may be entertaining but also may not be all that musical. That's a tremendous part of the evolution of "The Sanctuary Song" because my concern is it will be just another pop song. I'm not writing to avoid that but rather to express what I want to say accurately because otherwise it will be just another pop song. The lyrics have been rewritten at least four or five times now and that's not neurotic, at least not to me, because I see them getting closer and closer to the Sanctuary, the deliverance, etc.
Cat gets bugged with me analyzing things overmuch or getting too technical and that can be annoying in conversation but it's necessary for my song. Every tiny bit of it has to be punched up against a wall with the demand: do you belong here, bitch. There is concern the lasers may be perceived as trivializing the production but it's a significant part of the message that self is annihilated; it doesn't matter who brings the message so long as you hear it. For me, this is a crucial piece of it and the question is whether there's a better way to do it. For example, why not simply wear a mask.
So ... there's some marginal productivity in the analysis. Don't read neurosis into this because this is the closest to composition I ever get and it's a joy. The best music is always the music you haven't heard yet.
The purpose of the article isn't to describe what happened since you only need one word from the previous sentence to know how that went. It went on for hours so this is a loose apology for failing to produce anything.
There has been a bit of a dialog with Doc, the in-between brother, who has blown his mind into space with ideas of all Muslims are bad, abortion protestors are demonized, etc, etc. It's been my privilege not to be related to any dumb fuckers so it's a puzzle on the origin of this thinking. The bigger puzzle is what, if anything, to do about it.
The discussion is as cordial as I can make it and Kannafoot can tell you I have no trouble talking straight-up to people who are deeply-committed to Catholicism / Republicanism. It seems he is more of a neocon than a Goldwater Republican and it's frustrating because he has a better mind than that. Lotho is more of a Goldwater Republican with a bit more inclination toward social liberal / financial conservative and he pulled this out of the air, just as with Doc, since the family has been hard-core Labour for generations.
Information bubbles are likely at the bottom of this and the phenomenon is not limited to social networks insofar as Fox News and talk radio demand cloistering by ridiculing and reviling all other sources of news. It's all very well for individual citizens to ridicule and revile the news and many of us enjoy doing that but it steals from us when that type of thing comes pre-digested from the news service itself. (Blog: Avoiding Information Bubblers on Social Networks)
There's no intention to 'educate' Doc or 'show him the right way' or so. It took him sixty+ years to develop his thinking so he's not going to change nor should he simply because Silas doesn't agree with it.
There's a great deal of interest in discussion as with Kannafoot in which points on which agreement is impossible (e.g. abortion) are set aside and the general approach is find agreement on something and grow the thought from there. Some of those dialogs are here on the blog and this is not a news service so there's never anything edited nor is there any (cough) explanation of what they mean. That last is the single biggest reason I loathe that which passes for 'news' in these wasted times: don't explain it to me, just tell me what happened.
Meanwhile, there was a fortuitous talk with Cat since it's unusual for both of us to be online at this time and that talk was centered on spiritualism in music and any composition which does not deliver it may be entertaining but also may not be all that musical. That's a tremendous part of the evolution of "The Sanctuary Song" because my concern is it will be just another pop song. I'm not writing to avoid that but rather to express what I want to say accurately because otherwise it will be just another pop song. The lyrics have been rewritten at least four or five times now and that's not neurotic, at least not to me, because I see them getting closer and closer to the Sanctuary, the deliverance, etc.
Cat gets bugged with me analyzing things overmuch or getting too technical and that can be annoying in conversation but it's necessary for my song. Every tiny bit of it has to be punched up against a wall with the demand: do you belong here, bitch. There is concern the lasers may be perceived as trivializing the production but it's a significant part of the message that self is annihilated; it doesn't matter who brings the message so long as you hear it. For me, this is a crucial piece of it and the question is whether there's a better way to do it. For example, why not simply wear a mask.
So ... there's some marginal productivity in the analysis. Don't read neurosis into this because this is the closest to composition I ever get and it's a joy. The best music is always the music you haven't heard yet.
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Funny how I pulled my ideas out of thin air
In order to teach the right way you would have to be right
Everyone pulls their ideas out of the air or they're not original ideas. If they're not original then they're not your ideas.
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