Comments on: Technophobe? http://rogerbourland.com/2009/02/15/technophobe/ Roger Bourland writes about music and life Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:19:13 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: PK http://rogerbourland.com/2009/02/15/technophobe/comment-page-1/#comment-108748 PK Mon, 16 Feb 2009 09:11:31 +0000 http://rogerbourland.com/blog/?p=2876#comment-108748 It seems to me that the unease over the questions raised by your previous post, might be a function of the underlying unanswerable questions (by humans anyway): 1) What is music? 2) Why do we make it? 3) What is a university's role in "teaching" it? Would be students have to suffer the indignity of being judged by folly, and you have the thankless task of trying to define and defend a defenseless system. Thankfully us Los Anglians have that great philosopher to learn from, "can't we all just get along"? It seems to me that the unease over the questions raised by your previous post, might be a function of the underlying unanswerable questions (by humans anyway):

1) What is music?
2) Why do we make it?
3) What is a university’s role in “teaching” it?

Would be students have to suffer the indignity of being judged by folly, and you have the thankless task of trying to define and defend a defenseless system.

Thankfully us Los Anglians have that great philosopher to learn from, “can’t we all just get along”?

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