Wednesday, October 14, 2020
Thanks Ralph 136, double negative edition
A lesson from previous crazy times when inquisitors and witch hunters were in total control.
When NOBODY is doing the right thing, you have to look for good results from bad actions. Emerson.
The statue-pullers and rioters are doing a lot of damage to property, but they're also weakening some of the foundations of globalism. The wokeites are weakening the power of theories in academia, which is a purely good thing. Math that serves "social justice" is annoying, but it's a lot closer to Real World Math than the existing paradigm of math serving only the abstract mathematicians.
Here's an example I hadn't heard of before.
It is the work of a music theorist to identify the building blocks of music, such as melody, harmony, and rhythm, and to reveal their organizational principles. As teachers, we seek to illuminate the mysteries behind how great works of art are composed, so others might use those tools to find their own artistic voices. As analysts, we look for patterns in music and seek to interpret their meanings for a fuller, more nuanced understanding of musical works. Both identity and politics have played major roles in musical expression throughout history, but “identity politics” in the music theory field today is not about revealing how they are communicated in the music. Instead, it has become a belief that there is a fixed amount of intellectual space in the music theory world, and that fixed space has too many white males in it. It is a belief that the only way to achieve equity in music theory is to silence not just “problematic” voices but to diminish entire “problematic” modes of thinking. This is a false and immoral belief.Music theory has never helped anyone to "find their own artistic voices". The only way to find your voice is to USE it, ideally with guidance from an experienced trainer. Music theory, like ALL THEORY, has corrupted art and science. If the woke version of music theory eliminates the funding for this totally useless fake "discipline", it will do some good in a double-negative way. EXPERIENCE SURVIVES. THEORY KILLS.
Labels: Emersonian justice, Real World Math
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