What our world has become.
POSTED BY: Fremdfirma
UPDATED: Monday, June 29, 2026 21:34
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I am not going to explain it, nope, am hoping that you will trust my word that this is fascinating as hell.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/04/AR2007
040401721_pf.html
I just hope the link doesn't break after a while, tho.
More comment later.
-F
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Not going to give away the article, just making sure it stays near the top.
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Always look upstream.
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This was a fasinating article,
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our world indeed....
now, i would venture to say that any hack from american idol would have drawn a huge crowd.
a sad commentary
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Wow. That really is sad. No wonder so many people are depressed. Look at we go through life, plodding with our heads down...
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I'm the president. I don't need to listen.
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Great article. Although I come from a musical family and would have defenantly recognized his talent, I think being rush hour I would have spent about 20 seconds and a dollar on Mr. Bell.....
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I can say that I'd LIKE stop stop and enjoy the moment a lot more often than I feel I can explain to my boss.
"There was a guy playing music - I just wanted to appreciate the beauty!" -- not going to go over well if it makes me late.
It's not all down to the "wrong priorities", if the priorities mean paying rent and food on the table.
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Well, we could sneer about "what our world has become" or we could try to examine it phenomenologically, like Weingarten did. Is it that these people are fools? Or was there some validity to the art-without-a-frame thing? Seriously, we're conditioned to register street musicians as annoying presences and move along. It doesn't surprise me too much that no one listened to Bell. That sort of environment is the one where people see a musician and say, "Homeless schill wanting my money" and then walk right by. But if they got dressed up and went to a concert hall, the experience would be phenomenologically different. Because there people see a musician and say, "Genius playing masterpieces." Seriously, let's not get to sanctimonious about these people. I suspect that most of us would have been in that majority that kept right on walking.
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Also, by titling the thread "What the World Has Become" there seems to be the implication that it wouldn't have been that way in the past. You're right about that. Some DC cop would have walked up and cracked poor Joshua on the skull and told him to get lost. Let's not get too nostalgic for a past that never existed. Or do we honestly think that 30 years ago all those thousand people would have dropped everything for a listen?
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