[MD] Ham unlike you I will not create false idols

[Platt Holden]

Quoting Ham Priday <hampday1 at verizon.net>:

> I just watched a segment of American Idol, where unemployed, uneducated
> teenagers audition for Hollywood fame as "singers" without the slightest
> notion of what good singing is, what training it entails, and what
> constitutes musical talent.  One after another approaches the stage, each
> resolved that he or she will be the next American Idol.  Sure, it's
> possible, in the same way that winning the lottery is possible.  But the
> odds are stacked against them.  What astonishes me is that one of them will
> actually gain this celebrity.

Hi Ham, 

A wonderful example of the deterioration of moral values since the 60's, brought
about by intellect's inability to distinguish, much less understand, the difference
between biological values (instinct succeeds) and social values (education and hard
work succeeds). I especially like "Without the slightest notion of what good singing
is," an apt description applicable to all the arts since the 60's. Just look at what
passes for painting today.

Best regards,
Platt


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