O-10, I thought you were moving on; I guess not. I appreciate your passion about this topic and I appreciate passion about any relevant topic even when its misguided. I was not "evading" anything, but simply trying to stay on the subject of music. Moreover, as I have pointed out several times before there is no need for you to be so antagonistic; it certainly will not promote good dialogue.
I watched your clip on the heroin epidemic and I must say I agree with every word that Rok wrote in his comments about it. For me, it all boils down to two words: personal responsibility or the lack thereof. There are always two general points of views or attitudes about this sort of thing: 1. The attitude that holds on to the idea that all of society's ills (including those of the music business) are something that are being perpetrated on its citizens and that promotes the mindset that the citizen is owed a solution to every problem, and 2. The attitude that seeks to uplift and increase awareness through personal responsibility as much as possible and promotes the mindset of looking inward to find the answer to one's problems.
For crying out loud, if the first time the mother in that video noticed that her daughter had a problem was when she actually saw her shooting heroin, she wasn't paying nearly enough attention to her daughter. The reason that there is a heroin "epidemic" today is not that it is cheap and kept cheap by diabolical pushers or business interests, it is because more and more people are desperate to find a way to fill the void in themselves caused by the absence of family unity and spirituality ( and real music?) in their lives; the absence of a sense of purpose caused by a society that promotes the thinking that we are entitled to more and more of what previously was our individual responsibility to attain.
Going back to music: acknowledging the very real issues around race that many of our music heroes had to sadly endure, the truth is that many of them, as is the case today, were their own worst enemies and led lifestyles that were not conducive to stable lives.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OjFxEwyPknc
Probably the greatest singer to ever live; imo, of course:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QzRS2HKmL1s
I watched your clip on the heroin epidemic and I must say I agree with every word that Rok wrote in his comments about it. For me, it all boils down to two words: personal responsibility or the lack thereof. There are always two general points of views or attitudes about this sort of thing: 1. The attitude that holds on to the idea that all of society's ills (including those of the music business) are something that are being perpetrated on its citizens and that promotes the mindset that the citizen is owed a solution to every problem, and 2. The attitude that seeks to uplift and increase awareness through personal responsibility as much as possible and promotes the mindset of looking inward to find the answer to one's problems.
For crying out loud, if the first time the mother in that video noticed that her daughter had a problem was when she actually saw her shooting heroin, she wasn't paying nearly enough attention to her daughter. The reason that there is a heroin "epidemic" today is not that it is cheap and kept cheap by diabolical pushers or business interests, it is because more and more people are desperate to find a way to fill the void in themselves caused by the absence of family unity and spirituality ( and real music?) in their lives; the absence of a sense of purpose caused by a society that promotes the thinking that we are entitled to more and more of what previously was our individual responsibility to attain.
Going back to music: acknowledging the very real issues around race that many of our music heroes had to sadly endure, the truth is that many of them, as is the case today, were their own worst enemies and led lifestyles that were not conducive to stable lives.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OjFxEwyPknc
Probably the greatest singer to ever live; imo, of course:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QzRS2HKmL1s