13-12-2010, 04:11 AM
Way off.
The study was based on a false premise.
Namely, that average Americans would, under ANY circumstances, be equipped to appreciate the distinctions between a world-class violinist playing a masterpiece instrument while interpreting the canon with extraordinary facility and insight, and some Country and Western hack fiddler sawing away at a plywood student model while butchering a "tune" slightly less melodic than a rib joint fart contest.
The study was based on a false premise.
Namely, that average Americans would, under ANY circumstances, be equipped to appreciate the distinctions between a world-class violinist playing a masterpiece instrument while interpreting the canon with extraordinary facility and insight, and some Country and Western hack fiddler sawing away at a plywood student model while butchering a "tune" slightly less melodic than a rib joint fart contest.
Charles Drago
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene