[MD] Churning Point?

[Arlo J. Bensinger]

[Platt]
If you can see no difference in Manilow's videos and those of your average rock
and roll group, I see no hope for development of your artistic level 
sensibilities.

[Arlo]
Yes, I know. I will never be as properly discriminative as you.

[Platt]
You miss the point. To you biological means sex. You have a sex fixation. My
point had to do with musicianship which is an art level, not a biological
level, attribute.

[Arlo]
That's funny. Perhaps you should review your posts on this matter, then see who
has a "sex fixation".

And yes, musicianship is an "art level". And musicians like The Clash and The
Chameleons are quite talented artists, very high Quality. You should stop
dismissing every post-50s genre act as "biological".

[Platt]
If yearning for a return to music is an archaistic quest, then art has indeed
become a biological product produced by the untalented and sold to the
pubescent.

[Arlo]
The belief that all modern music (rock, punk, jazz, blues, etc.) is a
"biological product produced by the untalented and sold the pubescent", that
somehow a "return to music" and "what Platt likes" are somehow synonomous, then
art, as a Dynamic Quality, is meaningless, and becomes nothing more than a
representation of static (Victornian, in your case) social values.

For you see, there is no need for a "return to music", there is plenty of
Quality music being produced today, in genres that maybe Platt does not like,
but Quality music nonetheless. Why, just yesterday a friend recommended to me
"Kaizers Orchestra" from Norway, a really intriguing blend of several musical
styles.

But, that one has to shift through a ton of junk peddled by profiteers who
promote their "poses of style and glamour vended by dream magazines and other
mass media, and paid for by the vendors of substance" is something we may agree
on.

Arlo