Adding addition textures, colors etc to another Graboski gem. Some steinway, electric piano, vibes, chimes and sub-phatty. Musical food for thought. Rough mix. More to come. Great fun.
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(work in-progress by OHO- Jay Graboski, David Reeve & Ray Jozwiak)
This
is the kind of bull-pucky that our 'friends' in the media provide
daily; a recent article about 'The American Dream', chock full of what
they produce best - NOTHING!!!
This little gem begins
by reminding us that we too can achieve success. Then they promptly
tell us the definition of success, "The big home in the suburbs, the
luxury cars in the garage, the kids off to a good college and the
retirement in a sunny locale." Funny how Merriam-Webster views success
in more spiritual, less-tawdry and materialistic terms as "favorable or
desired outcome; also : the attainment of wealth, favor, or eminence".
From the stock, bullshit 'American Dream' teaser and
half-assed success definitions, this fine piece of writing moves on to
another constantly and frequently misrepresented concept, the economy,
and says that the weak job market is thwarting the best efforts of good
honest folk (like you and me) to 'get ahead', by which I PRESUME they
mean attain the aforementioned (theirs, not Merriam-Webster's)
'success'. Now I'm not unrealistic or particularly cold-hearted about
the job situation and the difficulties some people are currently
experiencing with employment and lack thereof. But somehow I think that
our journalistic scribes are providing us with third-grade-level
oversimplifications of the situation.
The particular
tome that provoked my ire went on to, in short, states that although
many present-day citizens truly believe that Americans all have an
equal ability to achieve success if they merely (and that's a BIG
merely) work hard. It does not venture (at least I did not detect it)
into any possibility that there exist many additional factors in
education, employment, the economy and geography that exert substantial
influence in the seeking, achievement and maintenance of something
called success.
The best, and most intellectually
substantial, part of the article was a quote from the academic world
that, in summary, stated possibly Americans need to rethink the
definition of the American Dream, putting less focus on having a huge
house and lots of cars and more focus on building successful
communities. Whiles supporting our families is certainly important, “we
need to scale back what the American Dream means to us.”
And
may I add, we must be more critical of what we read in the news and not
be so childishly willing to accept everything in print as true and
factual.
