Buddy said:Maat said:mkrnhr said:The video is how our world is. "Good" things are mixed up with "bad" things. The most important is to have awareness of this duality and to move on for more creativity within non-creativity. Light and darkness and so forth. OSIT.
So well put IMHO !
I agree!
I wanted to reply to some of Muxel's questions, but after half an agonizing day I gave up. I just couldn't do it. That would be 'analytic' mode and is a lower-value mode for experiencing and expressing an act of creation in its own context. For me, anyway.
One might choose to view what's happening in the video as an example of Creative Force assembling trained, willing people, musical instruments and spectators--all in a single geographical context. When all was ready, a performance began. Toward the end, during the crescendo, the little children played their important part as well since they are already open to spontaneous expressions of the fundamental nature of reality in its creative manifestation.
So we have an example of Creative Force expressing Self through an act of creation and, through the children's joyful and celebratory antics, a valuation: "this is (the) Good!"
I agree. A creative expression needs a vehicle, and in an STS world, that vehicle will probably be 'unclean', for lack of a better world. So should we not listen to an album because it was released on a corporate record label? Most 'indie' labels are owned by larger labels these days, so that would make the selection rather sparse. Or should we not go to see a beautiful, artistic film because it's being screened in a mega-corporate cineplex that's going to inundate you with suggestions to buy evil snackfoods? Or what if that movie is put out by a big corporate movie studio - would you still watch it? Or how about a concert for a musician you really like that's sponsored by a bank, or a beer company, or a company selling poison cigarrettes (not the good kind)?
If you look around, I think you'll notice that most creative endeavors that cost any amount of money are sponsored by less than worthy institutions. The way I see it, the evil is just riding on the coattails of something truly creative and inspirational. If you don't learn to tune it out, sort the B from the A influences, you'll lead a rather dull existence, I would think.