This place sure goes in "spurts"
David Gerard
dgerard at gmail.com
Tue Jul 21 21:05:05 BST 2009
2009/7/21 Peter Garrett <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au>:
> On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:38:05 +0100
> David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Richard Dawkins spoke in favour of the perpetual unavailability of
>> music, as per his new book The Art Delusion. “‘Music’ appears to be an
>> entirely subjective phenomenon with little or no objective
>> measurements possible — much like any other brand of snake oil or
>> balderdash. Music seems to be a sort of virus on human consciousness,
>> parasitically sapping the collective intelligence of the human race.”
> I weep for Richard Dawkins.
*cough* it was satirical exaggeration.
- d.
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