"Stan Pierce" <ecreipt@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
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"-db-" <widepope.at.email.dot.com@foo.bar> wrote in message
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Stan Pierce wrote:
60% of 16-year-olds fail to get even a C grade in maths. The usual
Labour
remedy...throw money at the disease.
No-one now even contemplates the Rock-n Roll effect on young minds.
It's
African music evolved from African minds. Once white youth get
entrapped in
the noise aspect of it the neurons are fixed in the pattern. They
never
improve afterwards. It's a drug. The effect was evident in 1960.
People
used to mature mentally with age...now they just get older and fixed in
time...African time. Spending billions trying to undo the effect is
wasted...like spending money on Africans.
Not sure where you drew the influence of the "devil's music" from that
article. I'm guessing your arguement is something along the lines of
simple
rhythms & simple chord progressions don't stimulate the mind as much as
a good
solid dose of Wagner in the morning.
Ultimately what we need is some more intellectually challenging music
such as
John Coltrane or Ornette Coleman. Or perhaps some Indian ragas might do
the
trick in rescuing society.
cheers
-db-
I made the observation about the influence of Rock-n-Roll in about 1958.
I
owned a nightclub and saw what it did to people.
Over the years I could see the decline of Western music in influencing
youth,
whereas the influence of Rock-n-Roll increased it's influence upon them.
Rock-n-Roll requires no teaching to appreciate it. No effort is
required.
Even very young children are drawn to it.
Once they are exposed to it they rarely transfer the interest to Western
Classical music as they grow older. You actually need parents who are
Classically minded to pass on the interest in Classical music BEFORE
exposure to
popular music. It doesn't happen otherwise. The consequences of
Rock-n-Roll on
education have been disastrous.
There is, and it was evident even in 1960, a connection between the
people who
listen to Rock-n Roll and the level of the lack achievement in education.
The
white British people have, since 1960, levelled off to what the African
people
in the UK achieve in education. I was commenting on the waste of money
and
cynicism of British politicians to throw money at what they think is an
educational problem that *isn't * an educational problem. It's a
cultural
problem. No teacher can solve it. They are defeated before they start.
Spending billions on teachers will not put the neurons in place to learn
once
they have been scrambled by noise. That's what I'm saying. And I'm
saying
that I observed it in 1958. It may be theoretically possible for *
some*
individuals to break the Africanisation of their minds once they are
afflicted
but I have never seen it happen within my lifetime. It does of course
always
remain a possibility. It's your tax money they spending to prove me
wrong.
Hey Stan,
I loved rock-n-Roll from about '57 to about '60.
Studying was great listening R+R
In '59 I went to uni and had 1 valve radio that I built complete with army
surplus headphones, so I could listen without disturbing the 3 others in our
room while studying.
My uni results were very good.
Some uni mates, who also liked R+R, introduced me to classical music.
Well you can guess the rest.
I'm have a post graduate degree with some years of working in the sheltered
workshop of academia, and many years reasearch with Gov Instrumentalities.
I'm now retired.
My neurons I don't think were affected by R+R. ;-)
I still listen to the R+R of those years, with some degree of nostalgia and
the feeling of pleasure it gave me.
All the best with your theses.
infidel
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