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Post by ahinton on May 15, 2016 12:16:38 GMT -5
All quiet on the Western front (not to mention the south Eastern one), it seems - as, yet again, is evidently par for the course.
One asks certain legitimate questions here in the near certainty that equally legitimate answers thereto will not likely be forthcoming, at least from certain quarters(!)...
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2016 2:43:51 GMT -5
. . . one cannot in any case give anything to anyone unless one has first acquired it . . . Wrong! Change "acquired" to "created" and the wrongness of this view is at once evident. As instance imagine a Scottish composer (of which there are a good few are there not) who writes a symphony or two and then posts them on a discussion forum.
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Post by ahinton on May 16, 2016 3:53:39 GMT -5
. . . one cannot in any case give anything to anyone unless one has first acquired it . . . Wrong! Change "acquired" to "created" and the wrongness of this view is at once evident. As instance imagine a Scottish composer (of which there are a good few are there not) who writes a symphony or two and then posts them on a discussion forum. I accept that "created" could indeed on occasion lie behind what might be given by one person to another or others but it by no means covers all such instances - comparatively few, indeed, so the view is not "wrong" at all; it merely does not apply in those specific instances where the given item has been "created" rather than "acquired" by its donor, but not to all other such instances. Even then, the creation of symphonies (since you mention these) requires the prior acquisition not only of technique, discipline and imagination on the composer's part but also the materials wherewith to notate the score and parts (be they paper, ink &c. or a computer on which music setting software has been installed) and those cannot be acquired without money! As to living Scottish symphonists, the only one that immediately springs to mind is James MacMillan and I'm not aware that he or his publishers have ever posted scores of any of his four (so far) symphonies on a discussion forum!
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2016 9:08:42 GMT -5
I think that there is a sense in which money may be abolished, Sydney, in that cash might be abolished. €500 'Bin Laden' banknotes are to be axed, for example, on the grounds that they are too often used to finance crime. I found it difficult to get change, Sydney, and had to go to a French post office! In order to run a global society as complex as ours, however, we do need some store of value. Some advocate a return to the gold standard, but I am not convinced. Bitcoins are an interesting invention. The definition of money will continue to change!
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