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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