« previous next »
Pages: [1] 2   Go Down

Author Topic: You killed him! You ruthless, murdering bastards KILLED HIM!  (Read 3825 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Online SSG Snuggle Bunny

  • Global Moderator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 23556
  • Reputation: +2479/-270
  • Voted Rookie-of-the-Year, 3 years running
You killed him! You ruthless, murdering bastards KILLED HIM!
« on: December 01, 2013, 06:28:23 AM »
They ought to ship the lot of you off to prison where you can rot.


Quote
marmar (63,182 posts)

Runaway Capitalism Murders Another Artist
 
from truthdig:

Runaway Capitalism Murders Another Artist
Posted on Nov 30, 2013


The resignation this month of Osmo Vanska from his decade-long role as director of the Minnesota Orchestra over salary disputes with the board spurred John Halle, director of studies in music theory and practice at Bard College, to argue at Jacobin that “the virtues of classical music are inherently hostile to (the) neoliberal mindset now dominant in all sectors of society.”

Hundreds of my own conversations with middle-class youths in classrooms, bars and cafes around the country—compared with conversations with members of elder generations—suggest that Americans are increasingly uncomfortable with distinctions of high and low forms of art, particularly with classical music. Halle points to a time when this was not so, and suggests that difference has to do with support ruling elites offered the arts in the past. In the 1930s, he writes, “while there was some competition from popular music … a clear division between high and low musical forms remained accepted across the board, with what was universally regarded as the precious legacy of concert music claimed and lavishly supported by both fascist and Soviet regimes alike.”

“What has emerged in recent years is the exact opposite,” he continues, and the abdication of economic control to mindless markets by states around the world, with the subsequent selfishness and inequality, is a primary cause. “On the one hand, government lavishes unprecedented economic and social privileges on its elites, taking an axe to programs benefitting those who fall behind. At the same time, the distinction between high and low artistic culture having been erased, the result has been a single standard for qualitative judgments derived from the commercial marketplace.”

It’s hard not to avoid making a connection, Halle writes. “The decline of musical literacy and the large-scale forms which they make possible, the increasing demand for immediately catchy tunes, striking sonorities and flamboyant stage presentations pairs with the impatience of the elites classes” in “the demand for investments to show an immediate short-turn return. Elites have long since jettisoned the expectation for steady growth embodied in the now retired Goldman-Sachs slogan, ‘long-term greedy,’ having come to accept and even embrace … ‘the erosion of the planning function, and any rationality beyond the most crudely instrumental.’ ” ........................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/runaway_capitalism_murders_another_artist_20131130

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024114007
Logged
According to the Bible, "know" means "yes."

Offline Big Dog

  • ^^Smokes cigars and knows things.
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 15581
  • Reputation: +1954/-213
Re: You killed him! You ruthless, murdering bastards KILLED HIM!
« Reply #1 on: December 01, 2013, 07:07:15 AM »
It looks like we found Lorelei's day job.
Logged
Government is the negation of liberty.
  -Ludwig von Mises

CAVE FVROREM PATIENTIS.

Offline Splashdown

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 6729
  • Reputation: +475/-100
  • Out of 9 lives, I spent 7
Re: You killed him! You ruthless, murdering bastards KILLED HIM!
« Reply #2 on: December 01, 2013, 07:43:36 AM »
Damn. Van Gough only lost an ear.
Logged
Let nothing trouble you,
Let nothing frighten you. 
All things are passing;
God never changes.
Patience attains all that it strives for.
He who has God lacks nothing:
God alone suffices.
--St. Theresa of Avila



"No crushed ice; no peas." -- Undies

Offline Big Dog

  • ^^Smokes cigars and knows things.
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 15581
  • Reputation: +1954/-213
Re: You killed him! You ruthless, murdering bastards KILLED HIM!
« Reply #3 on: December 01, 2013, 07:55:37 AM »
What a disappointment.

Quote
Runaway Capitalism Murders Another Artist

I was looking forward to reading something about actual capitalism and actual murder. Instead, we got this prissy bit of NPR crap:

Quote
The resignation this month of Osmo Vanska from his decade-long role as director of the Minnesota Orchestra over salary disputes with the board spurred John Halle, director of studies in music theory and practice at Bard College, to argue at Jacobin that “the virtues of classical music are inherently hostile to (the) neoliberal mindset now dominant in all sectors of society.”

Some guy quit his job with some second-rate orchestra because his need was greater than their ability, and some other guy blames the new leftists for not being leftist enough.

 :catfight: :catfight: :catfight: :catfight: :catfight:
Logged
Government is the negation of liberty.
  -Ludwig von Mises

CAVE FVROREM PATIENTIS.

Offline obumazombie

  • Siege engine to lib fortresses
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 21814
  • Reputation: +1661/-578
  • Last of the great minorities
Re: You killed him! You ruthless, murdering bastards KILLED HIM!
« Reply #4 on: December 01, 2013, 07:56:19 AM »
Quote from: Big Dog on December 01, 2013, 07:07:15 AM
It looks like we found Lorelei's day job.


Brighter that the stars, forever...

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfnpWNHAHVs[/youtube]


Styx baby !
Logged
There were only two options for gender. At last count there are at least 12, according to libs. By that standard, I'm a male lesbian.

Offline Mr Mannn

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 14885
  • Reputation: +2648/-276
Re: You killed him! You ruthless, murdering bastards KILLED HIM!
« Reply #5 on: December 01, 2013, 08:18:57 AM »
Quote
The resignation this month of Osmo Vanska from his decade-long role as director of the Minnesota Orchestra over salary disputes with the board

1) He was a director, not an artist. This man was a paper pusher. He was a bureaucrat-easily replaced.

2) I had thought demanding a higher salary was essentially a capitalist thing. Socialists work for the joy of working

3) He is not dead, just unemployed. Big difference. In fact, he probably knows Doug Bulna.

4) having a name like Osomo is going to make finding this article real easy for future employers. "So you quit over salary issues, Olsomo? Do you have an inflated sense of self worth?"
Logged

Offline Big Dog

  • ^^Smokes cigars and knows things.
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 15581
  • Reputation: +1954/-213
Re: You killed him! You ruthless, murdering bastards KILLED HIM!
« Reply #6 on: December 01, 2013, 08:29:28 AM »
Quote from: obumazombie on December 01, 2013, 07:56:19 AM

Brighter that the stars, forever...

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfnpWNHAHVs[/youtube]

Styx baby !

Better be careful, brother. You and she are in the same state. She may stalk you for that one!
Logged
Government is the negation of liberty.
  -Ludwig von Mises

CAVE FVROREM PATIENTIS.

Offline obumazombie

  • Siege engine to lib fortresses
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 21814
  • Reputation: +1661/-578
  • Last of the great minorities
Re: You killed him! You ruthless, murdering bastards KILLED HIM!
« Reply #7 on: December 01, 2013, 08:32:00 AM »
^If she starts stalking me, do you know what kind of action she can expect ?
Logged
There were only two options for gender. At last count there are at least 12, according to libs. By that standard, I'm a male lesbian.

Offline JohnnyReb

  • In Memoriam
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 32063
  • Reputation: +1998/-134
Re: You killed him! You ruthless, murdering bastards KILLED HIM!
« Reply #8 on: December 01, 2013, 08:42:31 AM »
Quote from: Mr Mannn on December 01, 2013, 08:18:57 AM
1) He was a director, not an artist. This man was a paper pusher. He was a bureaucrat-easily replaced.

2) I had thought demanding a higher salary was essentially a capitalist thing. Socialists work for the joy of working

3) He is not dead, just unemployed. Big difference. In fact, he probably knows Doug Bulna.

4) having a name like Osomo is going to make finding this article real easy for future employers. "So you quit over salary issues, Olsomo? Do you have an inflated sense of self worth?"

You bet he does...all DUmmies think they are worth more when in reality they're worth a lot less than they are being paid now.
Logged
“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of ‘liberalism’, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.” - Norman Thomas, U.S. Socialist Party presidential candidate 1940, 1944 and 1948

"America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within."  Stalin

Online SSG Snuggle Bunny

  • Global Moderator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 23556
  • Reputation: +2479/-270
  • Voted Rookie-of-the-Year, 3 years running
Re: You killed him! You ruthless, murdering bastards KILLED HIM!
« Reply #9 on: December 01, 2013, 09:15:12 AM »
Quote from: Big Dog on December 01, 2013, 07:55:37 AM
What a disappointment.

I was looking forward to reading something about actual capitalism and actual murder. Instead, we got this prissy bit of NPR crap:

Some guy quit his job with some second-rate orchestra because his need was greater than their ability...

 :catfight: :catfight: :catfight: :catfight: :catfight:

You may as well have put a pistol to his head, thumb-cocked the hammer and pulled the trigger.


I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY WITH YOURSELF!!!

 :overreaction:
Logged
According to the Bible, "know" means "yes."

Offline Freeper

  • Moderator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 17779
  • Reputation: +1311/-314
  • Creepy ass cracker.
Re: You killed him! You ruthless, murdering bastards KILLED HIM!
« Reply #10 on: December 01, 2013, 10:13:39 AM »
The problem is the Obamaphone people prefer hip hop and rap to classical music, so his gravy train isn't important.
Logged
I may not lock my doors while sitting at a red light and a black man is near, but I sure as hell grab on tight to my wallet when any democrats are close by.

Offline DumbAss Tanker

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 28493
  • Reputation: +1710/-151
Re: You killed him! You ruthless, murdering bastards KILLED HIM!
« Reply #11 on: December 01, 2013, 04:18:36 PM »
Sadly, no actual Liberals died in the making of this headline.

 :(
Logged
Go and tell the Spartans, O traveler passing by
That here, obedient to their law, we lie.

Anything worth shooting once is worth shooting at least twice.

Offline Big Dog

  • ^^Smokes cigars and knows things.
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 15581
  • Reputation: +1954/-213
Re: You killed him! You ruthless, murdering bastards KILLED HIM!
« Reply #12 on: December 01, 2013, 04:22:32 PM »
Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on December 01, 2013, 04:18:36 PM
Sadly, no actual Liberals died in the making of this headline.

 :(

 :lmao: :lmao: :lmao:
Logged
Government is the negation of liberty.
  -Ludwig von Mises

CAVE FVROREM PATIENTIS.

Offline Carl

  • Global Moderator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 19838
  • Reputation: +1618/-100
Re: You killed him! You ruthless, murdering bastards KILLED HIM!
« Reply #13 on: December 01, 2013, 04:24:20 PM »
Yet the driving force behind what amounts to "music" today are all leftists.
Logged

Offline GOBUCKS

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 24186
  • Reputation: +1812/-339
  • All in all, not bad, not bad at all
Re: You killed him! You ruthless, murdering bastards KILLED HIM!
« Reply #14 on: December 01, 2013, 04:28:02 PM »
Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on December 01, 2013, 04:18:36 PM
Sadly, no actual Liberals died in the making of this headline.

Maybe so, but the first time I saw this photo:

I could have sworn I saw, peeking from behind the blond moonbat beside dear Andy, a tall, thin fellow with unfashionably long hair.

From all appearances he could have been the nicest guy one could ever hope to meet, but there was something sinister in his eyes.
Logged

Offline Big Dog

  • ^^Smokes cigars and knows things.
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 15581
  • Reputation: +1954/-213
Re: You killed him! You ruthless, murdering bastards KILLED HIM!
« Reply #15 on: December 01, 2013, 06:21:50 PM »
Quote from: obumazombie on December 01, 2013, 08:32:00 AM
^If she starts stalking me, do you know what kind of action she can expect ?

A big helping of pew, pew, pew!
Logged
Government is the negation of liberty.
  -Ludwig von Mises

CAVE FVROREM PATIENTIS.

Offline Vagabond

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2478
  • Reputation: +166/-52
Re: You killed him! You ruthless, murdering bastards KILLED HIM!
« Reply #16 on: December 01, 2013, 06:56:25 PM »
I enjoy classical music quite a lot.  That being said, much of the music for them has already been written and recorded.  My daughter actually likes Vivaldi, especially the winter stanza, she was surprised to find out the music is almost three hundred years old.  She routinely used Spanish music for her figure skating.


This thing between high art and low art?  Every one of the DUmmies would call Shakespeare high art.  Shakespeare had to get the average Londoner to come into the Globe to watch his shows or the Globe wouldn't have been open for long.  I am not saying he didn't have patrons, he most assuredly did, but that didn't change the fact that he needed ticket sales.
Logged
There comes a time when even good men must run up the black flag of anarchy and slit throats. - H.L. Mencken

Offline Tucker

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 10937
  • Reputation: +540/-97
  • Making money the old fashioned way- Paid Mole
Re: You killed him! You ruthless, murdering bastards KILLED HIM!
« Reply #17 on: December 01, 2013, 07:11:46 PM »
Quote from: Big Dog on December 01, 2013, 07:55:37 AM
What a disappointment.

I was looking forward to reading something about actual capitalism and actual murder. Instead, we got this prissy bit of NPR crap:

Some guy quit his job with some second-rate orchestra because his need was greater than their ability[/u], and some other guy blames the new leftists for not being leftist enough.

 :catfight: :catfight: :catfight: :catfight: :catfight:

Sounds like a union demand to me.
Logged
Come to think of it, unions do create jobs. Companies have to hire two workers to do the work of one.

Offline biersmythe

  • Sr. Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 967
  • Reputation: +104/-14
  • Molon Labe
Re: You killed him! You ruthless, murdering bastards KILLED HIM!
« Reply #18 on: December 01, 2013, 07:28:16 PM »
Quote from: Big Dog on December 01, 2013, 06:21:50 PM
A big helping of pew, pew, pew!

DAMN IT!!! You got to this thread before I did.... pew, pew, pew!.... :bolt:
Logged
Teach a man to build a fire, and he will be warm for a night. Set a man on fire and he will be warm for the rest of his life!!!!

Knowledge is half the battle.
The other half is violence!

"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." Thomas Jefferson

The box said: "Requires Windows XP or better." So i installed Linux.

Offline obumazombie

  • Siege engine to lib fortresses
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 21814
  • Reputation: +1661/-578
  • Last of the great minorities
Re: You killed him! You ruthless, murdering bastards KILLED HIM!
« Reply #19 on: December 01, 2013, 07:50:18 PM »
Quote from: biersmythe on December 01, 2013, 07:28:16 PM
DAMN IT!!! You got to this thread before I did.... pew, pew, pew!.... :bolt:
I get you guys ! And I'm pretty sure you get me !
Logged
There were only two options for gender. At last count there are at least 12, according to libs. By that standard, I'm a male lesbian.

Offline Ptarmigan

  • Bunny Slayer
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 24111
  • Reputation: +1020/-226
  • God Hates Bunnies
Re: You killed him! You ruthless, murdering bastards KILLED HIM!
« Reply #20 on: December 01, 2013, 09:17:05 PM »
 :overreaction:
Logged
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
-Napoleon Bonaparte

Allow enemies their space to hate; they will destroy themselves in the process.
-Lisa Du

Offline 98ZJUSMC

  • The Most Deplorable
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 8424
  • Reputation: +436/-76
  • Now, with 99% less yellow!
Re: You killed him! You ruthless, murdering bastards KILLED HIM!
« Reply #21 on: December 01, 2013, 10:16:33 PM »
Quote
“the virtues of classical music are inherently hostile to (the) neoliberal mindset now dominant in all sectors of society.”

OK, let me read that again.

Quote
“the virtues of classical music are inherently hostile to (the) neoliberal mindset now dominant in all sectors of society.”

Wait a minute......    :stoner:

Quote
“the virtues of classical music are inherently hostile to (the) neoliberal mindset now dominant in all sectors of society.”

Oh, yeah Dude, makes perfect sense.... :whatever:


Quote
That being said, much of the music for them has already been written and recorded.
:II:

Quote from: Carl on December 01, 2013, 04:24:20 PM
Yet the driving force behind what amounts to "music" today are all leftists.



The devil you say. 
« Last Edit: December 01, 2013, 10:26:31 PM by 98ZJUSMC »
Logged
              

Liberal thinking is a two-legged stool and magical thinking is one of the legs, the other is a combination of self-loating and misanthropy.  To understand it, you would have to be able to sit on that stool while juggling two elephants, an anvil and a fragmentation grenade, sans pin.

"Accuse others of what you do." - Karl Marx

Offline Wineslob

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 14480
  • Reputation: +816/-193
  • Sucking the life out of Liberty
Re: You killed him! You ruthless, murdering bastards KILLED HIM!
« Reply #22 on: December 02, 2013, 09:25:32 AM »
Quote from: Freeper on December 01, 2013, 10:13:39 AM
The problem is the Obamaphone people prefer hip hop and rap to classical music, so his gravy train isn't important.


Besides, there's not much to sample, and have you ever HEARD Bach scratched?

 :panic:
Logged
“The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced, if the nation doesn't want to go bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.”

        -- Marcus Tullius Cicero, 55 BC (106-43 BC)

The unobtainable is unknown at Zombo.com



"Practice random violence and senseless acts of brutality"

If you want a gender neutral bathroom, go pee in the forest.

Offline JohnnyReb

  • In Memoriam
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 32063
  • Reputation: +1998/-134
Re: You killed him! You ruthless, murdering bastards KILLED HIM!
« Reply #23 on: December 02, 2013, 09:29:43 AM »
DUmmie wants a $100,000.00 a year to wave a stick in the air....typical DUmmie, huh.
Logged
“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of ‘liberalism’, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.” - Norman Thomas, U.S. Socialist Party presidential candidate 1940, 1944 and 1948

"America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within."  Stalin

Offline Wineslob

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 14480
  • Reputation: +816/-193
  • Sucking the life out of Liberty
Re: You killed him! You ruthless, murdering bastards KILLED HIM!
« Reply #24 on: December 02, 2013, 09:40:06 AM »
Quote from: JohnnyReb on December 02, 2013, 09:29:43 AM
DUmmie wants a $100,000.00 a year to wave a stick in the air....typical DUmmie, huh.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZclddLcOYYA[/youtube]
Logged
“The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced, if the nation doesn't want to go bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.”

        -- Marcus Tullius Cicero, 55 BC (106-43 BC)

The unobtainable is unknown at Zombo.com



"Practice random violence and senseless acts of brutality"

If you want a gender neutral bathroom, go pee in the forest.
Pages: [1] 2   Go Up
« previous next »