LO & the New Sciences LO5060

Ray Evans Harrell (mcore@soho.ios.com)
Tue, 23 Jan 1996 04:41:06 -0500

Replying to LO5041 --

Gordon wrote:
>First, the rationale for 1600 opera houses in Iowa bears some elaboration.
>Was its rise akin to, say, the existence of operatic houses throughout the
>Amazonian rubber plantation basin?
>
>As to the matter of disenfranchised employees -- to include the
>"networking and support" group provided by their peers -- there are
>numerous examples of professional, regional and social groups beginning to
>assume the role of professional training and mentoring that the employee
>assumed would be provided by his or her employer.
>
>Best regards, Gordon Housworth
>ghidra@mail.msen.com

Hello Gordon,

No the opera houses were there before Henry made his earthshaking
discovery that everyone would have to be deaf before they would work on
his boring factory lines. The automobiles made by the deaf, "dead at 50
from noise heart attack workers" like my Uncle Joe, moved to Iowa and made
everyone want to be up to date, deaf and a little dumb as well. The Music
from that time took a nose dive into vaudeville which was easily replaced
by the dumber technological marvel called movies and eventually the open
and close door phonograph. Ever heard one? By this time, it was easier
to stay home and listen to something that had already degraded into
pseudo-noise. Today it is not Kathleen Battle that they are buying but
the simple grandchildren of that dumb piece of wax and the vulgar
vaudeville.

As for training, you are not talking about experts but the children of the
assembly line doing simple, mind numbing labor. Can you imagine the
creation of a being that could break the language code from nothing in two
years, stand upright and invent poetry being chained to a mountain to have
its liver eaten regularly by the Ford. The question is not how they will
learn, but what have we done to them in this magnificent ruin. Like the
parks built on former strip mines in Ohio, they are good for nothing but
play. Nothing will grow there.

A pleasure meeting you,
Thanks for the response.

--
Ray Evans Harrell
Artistic Director
The Magic Circle Opera Repertory Ensemble, Inc. 
200 West 70th Street, Suite 6-c
New York City, New York 10023-4324
212-724-2398
mcore@soho.ios.com