Eric Clapton and his comments, set on fire, speaking of one new musician, or a new kind of playing, of a sound he discovered, explains well why a lot of musicians continue to play even if it's difficult. The emulation is very accessible, the music is everywhere. Shows are not expensive, nor buying a CD. They have an easy access to the new sounds. It's quite different for the other professions. And in the other professions, we are not supposed to look at the colleagues' work to appreciate it.

As he described, musicians play each other what they composed. They are critics and recognized the talent of others.

With the industry problems, I tought musicians were individualistic but the base of their work is a lot more common then others. One creates an unique sound after to have learnt of others'sound.

The passion is in the art. How to make of "something" an art? Is art possible for a seller, for a nurse, for an accountant? It's all the loss of the ancient passing on their art to youngers, individually. Passing on the techniques, he could in the same time, passing on the love of his art.

Now, all the different aspects of a work are isolated, fragmented and teached by different persons. The practice in industries served also to recreate the "grounded" practice and the link with masters directly doing the job.

If art transmission is no more in the traditional teaching, may it be elsewhere?

A good one!

Bonjour! Il a ete longtemps depuis la derniere fois j'ai rendu une visit au site Smashing Pumpkins; peux-tu m'exuser parce que je n'ai pas repondu a ta question de 'Durch die Nacht mit...' Je sais que l'emission a apparu sur le site pendant quelques jours, et je ne suis pas sur si tu avais l'occasion pour le regarder. Je vais ecrire quelquechose sur l'emission pendant les jours suivants sur mon blog.

Excuse moi pour mon francais - c'est pire aujourd'hui que d'habitude!

Vaughn

MUCH LOVE to YOU too!!!

For ALL your days...and nights....

"Love is not the proof of a grounded "theory", even if it keeps you young. It is "grounded" when your Self push you out. The Poetry of your heart IS."

somehow i think this comment was dropped in the wrong place? (missing context).

i would say love IS the "grounded theory" (love as living daily action, not a thing.)

(unless you are referring to humor and the joking between satty and me...)

are happening - perhaps unseen good things for ALL - i love the wind and being with it. walking this morning and last night i thought of that as it was breezy and moving. even if it's hot, the air feels good.

so maybe that's what happened with us, eh? and we can always discuss other things and even the other things in different ways now that we understand each other better.

have a great sunday!

being a "leader" and what have i ever been a "leader of"

i have a very different definition of those things. i lead "with" and "alongside" daily in many facets of life - at work, within family, within circles of friends, with students, with colleagues. i prefer nonhierarchal leadership that's mutual and shared. i've had the best mentors-professors who have "led" by example how to create this. the best "teams" i've been on defied having a "leader OVER" or a "leader OF" - we all lead together and shared the responsibilities stepping in as needed. often those were the best teams who got the most done and at the "highest quality."

people may watch from the outside or "project" hierarchal leadership onto me or anyone in the group - but they are missing what we are actually doing - what's going on. often people are dumbfounded that we do what we do. "there has to be someone IN CHARGE" they say in disbelief. in our work we all share that responsibility with each other. yet others sometimes just don't get it.

as for "leading" in the community. we are all doing it and tending it - in what may seem small ways and from the sides. as anyone who has spent years in education knows - you aren't there for "money" or "status" - and that's a way of serving community. particularly educators who resist the corporate scripts coming in top-down. it often takes lots of time and sacrifice - leaving time for little else.

and lot's of "shoveling the sh**" - doing the tasks that no one else will do or wants to do. as nonhierarchal leaders, together we roll up our sleeves and share in all the tasks.

"own" the refrigerator, though. or stove. (the apartment complex provides them to renters.)

when my father was dying and i had to commute back and forth to the for profit brand-new but shoddy understaffed hospital that botched his surgery resulting in his death (such different from healthcare two decades beforehand) i purchased one.

a "lower case" capitalist becoming mindful with others to transform the system in which i live.

(the apt. 510.00 a month. 650 sq. ft. with no microwave or cable. it IS about becoming more mindful amidst the changes. LOTS of windows and trees....)

a living witness...

by capitalism i'm referring to the economic system in which we are living that has morphed into supercapitalism or transnational capitalism. naomi klein and others describe this as well. i am of the mindset that we will need to move beyond this kind of system and need to envision newer systems. that will require an examination and critique of the existing system.

since you are familiar with klein and her views, i do refer you to her as my arguments complement them and you may be more open to them.

she uses the term "they" a lot to make her point. and refers to "corporations." you seem to have no problem with that language when she uses it.

as is outlined in "the corporation" - a CANADIAN film - there are a few who seem to be trying. North Carolina's Ray Anderson is a CEO who has "woken up." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Anderson_(entrepreneur)

however, a growing number of people working with the BIG corporations - who are wielding much power in the control of our media, telecommunications, etc. they are doubtful that any transformation will happen there. perhaps from the outside once the greater system implodes, collapses, etc.

i refer you to the articles posted earlier (these include some wilber friends) that suggest alternatives:

http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?ID=752

"Corporate Futures
by David Korten
Can corporations contribute to positive change in the world? Or are they inevitably a part of the problem? YES! executive editor Sarah van Gelder invited Paul Hawken, a leading advocate of sustainable buisiness, and David Korten, well-known for his call for a "post-corporate" world, to a dialogue on this question."


http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?ID=434

What To Do When Corporations Rule the World
by David Korten


http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?ID=533

"Economies For Life
by David Korten

Enron. Accounting fraud. Mad cows. Wal-Mart. Monopoly. Political corruption. WTO. Disintegrating schools. Downsizing. WorldCom. Tax havens. Cancer. Hostile takeovers. Channel One. Harken Energy. Climate change. Corporate welfare. Temp workers. Economic refugees. Arthur Andersen. Hidden partnerships. Billionaires. Money laundering. Citibank. Financial bubbles. Prison crowding. Insider trading. Infomercials. Halliburton. Price gouging. GMOs. Terrorism. Malnutrition. Monsanto. Uninsured workers. Nike. Sweatshops. Maquiladoras. Trade wars. Homelessness.

Welcome to the world of the suicide economy."


many history scholars reflect that we are currently in the midst of a greater "corporate oligarchy." this is what i am referring to in my critique. what's interesting is there is a power relation among corporations and people - an imbalanced one. i'll stand with people struggling for change in numerous ways. (it's like the slaves and the slave master system.) they don't "own" me and i won't defend them. too much is at stake and too many people have and are defending them.

who stands with people? - that's individual and social responsibility. and to hold "THEM" corporations accountable.

strangely, i feel this conversation with you continues to go nowhere. (it feels trapped in back and forth duality. point a, point b. point a. point b. stale mate. no change. death.)

and it smells ... dead fishy or like dead bait.

(yet you bring up naomi klein !!!! *in shock* ever read "shock and awe?")

so perhaps a fixed pattern has been established between us (one says up the other down, one says left the other right) and we should break it, and quit having it and put our energies elsewhere.

that's okay by me. i walk away....and am out of here.

*sighs relief*


comprendez-vous?

i just read your earliest post NOW about moving (it gives your other comment a missing context).

MOVING....sounds exciting! all things DO change! and that can be for the better. i hope you are excited.

(i am "off" the whole week and i am excited about that - although i have much reading and writing to do for a class i am taking.)

a move is a wonderful thing!