It was a metaphor for this thread…
You'd have to be born in 1953, at least, to remember that. No way you're that old.
I was going to type something similar, but thankfully you did so I can rest my fingers!In my observation, these topics are dear to many people, so they get heated. So far so good, no problem imo in being passionate.
But as they get heated, someone throws out a word like "ignorant," and the person it's directed to gets pissed. The problem in this, is the 2 parties have different understandings of the definition of 'ignorant,' and even though it wasn't meant to be derogatory, but instead: "lacking knowledge or understanding of a particular thing"..., it was taken that way, then the name-calling starts. Words have connotations that can take a written discussion into territory that no one intended, but yet it happens all the time.
Add in slang, cultural differences, bias, beliefs based on incorrect information, etc., and the whole thing devolves into a food fight. Sh!t gets taken the wrong way, is a big part of the problem, ime.
Which come to think of it, what's the problem? Don't we all like to look at car crashes and train wrecks? What's a little bandwidth wasted on a good argument and name-calling, that'll draw people in like flies to s**t?
Personally, I welcome a good discourse on sensitive topics, if people could just remain civil, and be careful to say what they mean, clearly, because there always seems to be someone that knows more than I do about a particular subject, and as such, sometimes I learn a thing or 2. And other times, the whole thing's just damn hilarious to read!
But what do I know? The Thunderdome is barely gettin' used!!
That should be pinned on every thread condemning any form of evil
200%!!It's hard.... or, challenging.... when so much of music has been about rebellion, and rebellion
is about usurping authourity, and usurping authourity is inherently political.
f**k, the history of music includes a sacred versus secular fight. At one point in time all music
in the West was a form of sacrament, and could only be used to prop up the Church. People had
to rebel against that authourity in order to write/perform music that did not serve the Church. It
was not given. It was claimed and disputed. The Church was the first Record Label commissioning
and controlling a composer's work.
Then fast forward to the 20th Century and you have several political rebellions that were inseparable
from music.
Jazz, Blues and the Civil Rights. Hippies, Psychedelia, and the Sexual Revolution. The Environmental movement,
Pete Seeger and Folk Music. You can't have one of those without the other.
But that is for someone's dissertation and not for a private forum owned and operated by people who
determine the rules of (mostly) friendly engagement.
www.udiscovermusic.com
When my oldest son was 12 years old, he was the authority on ShamWow Vince on Wikipedia
In my observation, these topics are dear to many people, so they get heated. So far so good, no problem imo in being passionate.
But as they get heated, someone throws out a word like "ignorant," and the person it's directed to gets pissed. The problem in this, is the 2 parties have different understandings of the definition of 'ignorant,' and even though it wasn't meant to be derogatory, but instead: "lacking knowledge or understanding of a particular thing"..., it was taken that way, then the name-calling starts. Words have connotations that can take a written discussion into territory that no one intended, but yet it happens all the time.
Add in slang, cultural differences, bias, beliefs based on incorrect information, etc., and the whole thing devolves into a food fight. Sh!t gets taken the wrong way, is a big part of the problem, ime.
Which come to think of it, what's the problem? Don't we all like to look at car crashes and train wrecks? What's a little bandwidth wasted on a good argument and name-calling, that'll draw people in like flies to s**t?
Personally, I welcome a good discourse on sensitive topics, if people could just remain civil, and be careful to say what they mean, clearly, because there always seems to be someone that knows more than I do about a particular subject, and as such, sometimes I learn a thing or 2. And other times, the whole thing's just damn hilarious to read!
But what do I know? The Thunderdome is barely gettin' used!!
BRB..........................
