From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Sun Feb 15 2004 - 13:31:36 GMT
Hi Mark,
> But this is not to dismiss the experience of the way for those who can
> appreciate trash can music. Trash can music is in the moment just as
> listening to Mozart's Symphony No. 38 is in the moment, and that can be a
> good thing for insight.
All art is "in the moment" but that doesn't mean all art is good. "In the
moment" can be a very bad moment, like banging trash cans. :-)
> I have played in a Samba band and found the experience one of the most
> Dynamic in my life.
Go for it. Surely you wouldn't put Samba music on the same quality level
as banging trash cans?
> Now i wish to state that i feel it to be an absolute moral imperative for
> those of higher Quality to help those of lower Quality.
Why? Where does that "moral imperative" come from? Not from the MOQ that I
can see. Please cite the basis for your moral imperative, if there is
one.
> So, if i can use
> trash can music as a point of entry into Mozart's Symphony No. 38, then it
> is moral that i should do it.
I'd find it more moral to to use Mozart's Symphony as a point of entry.
Why start at the bottom?
>That it can be done i have little doubt, for
> the way is the important feeling to convey, not the static patterns of the
> music. If we are lucky to be able to appreciate the best in art, we must
> never dismiss those who cannot. I feel that to be immoral.
I ask again. Is there a basis in the MOQ for a moral imperative to "help"
others appreciate the best in art?
> And now to the matter of spirit. Poets talk of the spirit, but there is no
> spirit in the MoQ - no substantial spirit which adheres through change.
No Spirit in the MOQ? If DQ isn't Spirit I don't know what is. Other names
for DQ -- Atman, Brahman, God, Self, Soul, the Divine, etc. not to mention
Light, Love, Beauty, Emptiness, No-thing-ness, Infinite, the conceptually
unknown, etc.
> The
> only force is DQ, with a cloud of static patterns atmospherically clinging
> to the cutting edge of reality. The weather changes but DQ remains.
As does Spirt, Soul, God, etc.
> Mozart's Symphony No. 38 is a Summers' excellence - trash can music is an
> overcast afternoon wish intermittent sunshine.
Mozart's music is perennial excellence. Trash can music is how it
describes itself -- trash.
Best regards,
Platt
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