The Logic Off Topic list

At 12:55 AM +0000 8/24/01, soreyenus@... wrote:
>
>Listen, I started the thread because I believe in principles. One of
>those principles is to try to be associated only with products,
>companies, and tools which do the job, and which are designed and
>built by people whom care about our existence on this planet.
>
>These tools, those of music creation and capturing, are the heart of,
>at least my, creative process (not as a manipulation tool, but as a
>recording device)
>
>I work on music that is uplifting, inspiring, from the dark to the
>light.
>
>The problem I have with the artist I mentioned is that his art does
>nothing to bring mankind to a greater awareness, or awakening, or
>uplifting. Art should do that. Originally, IMHO, that was how Art
>started. To inspire, instill awe...

This gives me a tummy ache.   I makes want to puke in someone's shoe. 
My background has exposed me to the "holier than though" set and 
sickeningly destructive results of their hypocrisy far too much to 
allow me to believe a word of anyone who represents himself in this 
way.  In my experience the greatest pleasure people who talk this way 
can derive is when they can actually find someone they can convince 
their act is real and the pleasure is generally shorter lived than 
the pain because the whole thing always falls apart but somehow 
refuses to end.  It is far far more "uplifting" to me to hear 
somebody simply say what is really on their mind even if it's ugly 
rather than trying to convince the world that they are nicest most 
enlightened person in it and that everything would be peaches and 
cream if everyone else was just like them.

Thank you for warning away from your art.

For the sins of sanctimony and censure I sentence you to spend 
eternity on the phone with doctor Laura and Rush Limbaugh.
-- 


                                 Dennis Gunn
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