tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10680113.post8976496059109758462..comments2024-03-23T11:40:13.092-05:00Comments on Musical Assumptions: KnittingElaine Finehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14248422399226824168noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10680113.post-89958163793915261392013-07-19T05:41:56.509-05:002013-07-19T05:41:56.509-05:00The link's reference to a "culture of cap...The link's reference to a "culture of capitalism" and your own "capitalist-modeled world" are interesting phrases hinting at some other idealized world in which one's output will be prized by some measure other than by being bought, sold, licensed and such. You write you "had the expectations that my musical successes would be reflected by some kind of monetary reward." This of course was your capitalist side. As Marcuse once rued about books like his, one was forced into "being sold like soap." But the only other choice is being administered by the Ministry of Music (or Lit, or...) in which some other makes decisions. Neither guarantees success by any measure. It seems to me that abandoning the model of success to simply make/craft/compose or even knit for the joy of it will find its own niche, large or small. I for one reject the lingo of a "culture of capitalism" and your own "capitalist-modeled world" as just silly politics shoving its non-art nose into the world of creating. Why not put aside such modeling and such lingo and such thoughts. More time will be available to dream dreams. Or?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com