"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." Will Rogers
If you're expecting a serious dissertation on the topic, you'll be disappointed. You're dealing with a mind that connects "right track", Will Rogers and music here. I don't know why this music group selected the name for the band or the title of the album. Their music had me toe tapping, with a big grin on my face.
join me below the fold for some acoustic chocolate
On the way to a gym for the daily workout, my radio was tuned in to NPR. So naturally, it's a great time for meditation with random thought association. Boredom evaporated quickly as my ADD kicked in. Rewind the old tape back to the program on NPR, an interview with Rhiannon Giddens of The Carolina Chocolate Drops.
http://www.npr.org/...
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Mamaw Unie only voted for Democrats. She told me that the money the Democrats gave poor people to vote was an act of charity. She didn't turn down the money from Republicans, took the paid cab ride to the polls, then voted for the Democrat. Does that count as being bipartisan? Mamaw didn't sell her vote, she was teaching us the lesson of being gracious receivers.
She loved Hank Williams, and trips to the speak easy (dry county) for some whiskey, jazz music and dancing. She didn't practice any organized religion. Being a divorced woman in the South, married against her will to an old man at the age of 15, as was the custom, she carried her scarlet letter with pride.
Did I acquire my love for music with a message, music that captured my mind ,or my emotions? Is it genetic? Are conservatives musically challenged? Does our choice of music reflect our social and political views? When I tell you that Cat Stevens, now Yusuf Islam, is one of my favorites, do you automatically associate it with Progressive?
Have you ever worked for a boss who listened to Boss Limburger every day? Why is it that most uber-conservatives I've known prefer talk radio to music? Not that I would want to hear Wagner, or the "I'm a war loving, patriotic American, love it or leave it," south wing country western heros.
http://www.mfiles.co.uk/...
Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883)
Most descriptions of Wagner the man do not paint a pretty picture. There are many reports of his extreme anti-semitism, massive ego-mania, wanton gambling and womanising, and his ruthless exploitation of anyone in order to achieve his ambitions.
More brain food available at:
http://online.wsj.com/...
JANUARY 2, 2010
The Battle of the Brain
The mind's great conflict spills over onto the world stage
By IAIN MCGILCHRIST
There is a reason we have two hemispheres: We need both versions of the world.
Without the right hemisphere, we are socially and emotionally insensitive, and have an impaired understanding of beauty, art and religion. Effectively autistic, we have no sense of the broader context of experience. Meanwhile, without the left hemisphere, we struggle to bring detail into focus. If a culture were ever to rely excessively on one take alone, there would sooner or later need to be a correction.Yet in the West there has been such an imbalance. And as a consequence, over the past 2,500 years, there has been a kind of battle going on in our brains, the result of which has been, despite swings of the pendulum, an ever greater reliance on the left hemisphere.
I'll close with more Carolina Chocolate dessert:
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