<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 8:43 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fons@kokkinizita.net">fons@kokkinizita.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 06:04:53AM -0700, Patrick Shirkey wrote:<br>
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> Yes, I agree the basic formula for mindless drivel has not changed much<br>
> over the years. Perhaps that is why we have been dominated by a hereditary<br>
> elite for so long now?<br>
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</div>Unfortunately, much of this thread is mindless drivel as well:<br>
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* Reducing a complex social process to a simplistic conspiration theory.<br>
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* Abusing ill-defined but suggestive terminology from Freudian psychology,<br>
('subconscious', 'mind', etc.) ignoring everything this science as<br>
produced over the last 30 or so years.<br>
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And what is this 'hereditary elite' ? The last few kings and kaisers<br>
that remain here and there ?<br>
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> If we are accepting of this as the status quo then we get what we deserve.<br>
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</div>Those who accept it get what they deserve. It's up to you to decide<br>
if you are included or not.<br>
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Ciao,<br>
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FA</font><br></blockquote></div><br>I would just like to point out some (perhaps irrelevant) points:<br>1. The great western classical tradition which started around Bach (or a few hundred years earlier depending on how you look at/hear it) suddenly died around 1900.<br>
Classical music degenerated into varieties of insanities like serialism etc and pop/rock etc emerged over the next 50 years out of what was earlier simple folk music.<br><br>2. Western music has always used and experimented with varieties of well-tempering. <br>
Equal tempering only took hold in the 20th century ie after 1900 see for example:<br><a href="http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~mrubinst/tuning/tuning.html">http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~mrubinst/tuning/tuning.html</a><br><br>
3. The 'greatest' wars that humans have ever fought happened in the 20th century<br>