(1) Instead of helping young people to find, explore and develop
their centers of natural ability and talent, Education, as we currently
know it, forces children already at an early age into a carrier of
tourism on the periphery of learning and creativity..
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(2) Four easy steps to a radically new popular
music: (1) Don't play 4/4;
(2) Don't say 'love'; (3) Don't say 'baby'; (4) Pull out the plug.
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(3) Every mechanically reproduced image of a
natural world, whether it be the
photograph of a flower, or the recording of a violin, must to a certain extent
be
recomposed by the viewer or listener in order to bring it back to life. The
truer
the reproduction, the less we will have to do this.
In a way, this is rather like healing the image, which of course constitutes
a profound
reversal of how, in the thousands of years we have walked the land as a species,
the
sights and sounds of Nature have generally, without any special effort on
our part,
soothed and comforted us. This largely unconscious ability to 'make the image
whole'
does however presuppose a long-standing intimate relationship with the
original, or
at least a certain familiarity with, for example, actual plants or real acoustic
instruments.
Tragically, children who are for whatever reason denied this primary relationship
with things natural can only with great difficulty re-create pictures or
sounds in this
way. Theirs has become in part a 2nd-hand world of ghost images projected
on the
proverbial walls of a high-tech cave.
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