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Entry: The Death of Music by the Spirit of Government Subsidies Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_death_of_music_from_the_spirit_of_government_subsidies#15706 Post contents: The reason I urge people to read John Taylor Gatto is so that they can understand that the public school system is not designed to better the children who attend. It is meant to keep them in their place. If you want steel drums, hand drums, or any other kind of drum in the schools, even if it's a cloth held tight over a pan with a rubber band, it is the same. I was exposed to music in the schools as well as at home, but it is very hard to recapture what was really never known. There is no comparison to Mozart and Beethoven, men who were taught by means other than a processed, homogenizing, deliberately dumbed-down system. With the type of parents I had, if I had been home-schooled, I would have been completely immersed in music, and would probably be that much more adept. Who knows? I might have been the next Mozart! ;) Liberty cannot be taught in public schools. The nature of forced schooling on the populace through taxation and truancy laws forbids liberty. The system will never teach anything other than allegiance to the state, and whatever whims the prevailing elite dictate at the time, in the manner of inculcating sameness above all other virtues. Whether it's music, science, or multi-culti nonsense, this is what public schooling is about: sameness and obedience. There will be the occasional genius who emerges, but for the most part you can kiss the Mozarts and Beethovens of the world goodbye through this highly oppressive system. I don't lay all the blame at the feet of the public school system, but at the feet of the government, one of whose many cancerous outgrowths is public schooling. R.J. Stove is right to say that government subsidies have gone a long way towards the "unattractiveness" of modern art. But I hold that atonality in music was an outgrowth of natural musical progressions, and a necessary one. Perhaps there would have been less of it with less governmental interference, but then everything government touches, it destroys. If government-subsidized art looks dead, it is because the government killed it. You can't separate the public schools from that. Sent at: 2008 07 09