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The Big Ears Club
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Ruphus
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RE: The Big Ears Club (in reply to guitarbuddha)
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Local fashions often come and go. Thinking of rural friends of mine and their community, I recall years of passionate tafli playing and after that sorts of okkukltism which certainly has long since been exchanged for some other trend. Just yesterday I was telling a youngster about humans´underemployed brains that spin into irrelevant but sometimes nonetheless seriously taken fashion, when the cognitive potence is neglected by zeitgeist. Such it seems is how irrational trends rise and run. Probably introduced all the time, sporadically, mostly though vanishing again as flash in the pan. Only sometimes the spectacle becomes lasting. ( Historically by accident.) It has happened with craving-for-admiration tricksters and their story weaving followers who got celebrated beyond local public and became the Golden Calf. With now billions of stultified who are instructed to reject the screaming secular on behalf of crass rubbish, resulting into billions of fundamentally uneducated heads who no less are ready to set everything on fire for assumptive and baseless tales. Just as retarded minds as originally, despite modern world´s culture products, comfort tech and gadgets that one would think should help connect to rational ground and shake off the Middle Age finally ... but won´t. Blinding trend phenomenons are not funny at all, and yielding trillions of victims since thousands of years. Every day on all continets. "Our brains as hardware and cognitive skills are prepared for a high state, but our software has been set back by millenia", me tried to analog yesterday. There should urgently be put an end to false peity for superstition. The more aggressive the superstition the more rigidly it should be illuminated and dismantled. Pull off foam ears! The opposite approach of tolerating violent retardedness is a `generousity´ at expense of innocents sacrifice. Ruphus
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Date Oct. 23 2013 12:19:38
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Miguel de Maria
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From: Phoenix, AZ
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RE: The Big Ears Club (in reply to guitarbuddha)
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I understand your story. It's an allegory. You see, there are people who like solo flamenco guitar, and there are people who like solo classical guitar. It turns out that if you are in one camp, something happens and you have to hate the other type of music. It is actually impossible to like both. You can't even perceive that top players in the other camp are also incredibly talented, dedicated, and artistic. You have to choose and only like one. If you are in the CG camp, you have to wear black turtlenecks, talk about Bach a lot, and carry around little pieces of grade 00 sandpaper. You watch foreign films (that means French, British, etc if you are Murican). You don't get many chicks. If you are in the flamenco camp, you have to start smoking and doing drugs. You start drinking red wine (tinto) and sherry, and change your bedtime to 6 am. You will die early, but you will probably get more chicks. Even though you play almost precisely the same instrument, using only marginally different technique, and even though you both play Malaguena, you must distance yourself from the other camp as much as possible. Your internet reputation is at stake!
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Date Oct. 23 2013 14:11:50
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