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OH GOD NO !!! not on the tron site for pities sake

> Communist more likely. The Soviet Russkies weren't much different. The
> removal of individualistic thought does not promote much innovation. .
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> From: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Gary Brumm
> Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2011 4:00 PM
> To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [newmellotrongroup] Re: OT-Future ax slingers
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> Chris, I agree with most of this except "The emphasis on imitation over
> invention (largely an American ideology)"
> I think it is overwhelmingly an Asian ideology.......
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> From: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Chris Dale
> Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2011 10:43 AM
> To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: OT-Future ax slingers
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> Well if not mistaken, the letters next to the video say DPRK, which means
> "Democratic People's Republic of Korea".
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> Those of you familiar with history might remember that it's a misnomer of
> sorts - a propaganda title used by North Korea and Stalin's puppet
> counterpart Kim Il Sung.
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> As an educator of Korean students and having gone deeply into the
> Demilitarized zone at the South / North Korean border, I can tell you
> that these students have it ingrained in them to duplicate or copy
> perfectly - without any thought of improvisation or expression because it
> is immediately extinguished at the slightest emergence.
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> Now before the automaton reaction of 'politically incorrect' enters the
> conditioned and malleable mind, consider that the country was largely
> destroyed during the Korean War and that their entire culture has been
> based upon copying either Americanism and it's influences (South Korea) or
> Communism and it's influences (North Korea).
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> With 5000 years of culture reduced to almost nothing in 3 years, the
> people had no choice but to copy everything else and to do it very well,
> to the point where copying it better took over and originality or anything
> resembling it was discouraged.
> This idea is shared by many Koreans by the way!
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> The emphasis on imitation over invention (largely an American ideology) is
> almost second nature to present day students. I have witnessed this first
> hand and attempt to drastically reduce it for the student's sake.
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> Of course, these children will gradually learn the bigger meaning of what
> it is they're doing, and let their artistic sides emerge, but for now
> let's take comfort and enjoyment in what they've achieved (and had drilled
> into them) to do, and the fact that they've even eaten and have
> electricity as more than half of North Korea doesn't. It's a completely
> different world than you can imagine, with rampant starvation, propaganda
> speaker systems in every house, and picures of the "Dear Leader" hung up
> on bedroom walls and larger than family pictures.
> There's even an incident where a man's home caught fire and he saved the
> pictures of the "Dear Leaders" first while his family burned to death.
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> Anyway - this is a singular performance because of where these kids are
> from and it needs to be seen in it's proper social, political and economic
> context, and not through the views most of us would normally hold.
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> As far the North American hockey dad's and soccer mom's - in my opinion,
> these people (although well meaning) are just as bad as the oppressive
> totalitarian governements of the world because it's the exact same thing
> on a much smaller scale. These people also reduce and suppress their kids
> to death by ruining any individual expression, in the guise of being in
> their best interests.
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> I'd have no difficulty at all lashing out at those troublemaking parents
> out if I was a school coach. It might be the only time they ever question
> their righteous behaviour before ruining part of their kids childhood.
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> Going back to what I said about musically copying - here's a modern Korean
> pop song. It's simultaneously humourous, tragic, and irritating.
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> This is the legacy of years of exposure to the worst and most
> unforgiveable modern North American pop music.
> What a shame that our vapid music industries have influnced someone else
> to make bigger mounds of sonic garbage than ourselves.
> And check out the guy dressed as Robin (from Batman). He likely has no
> idea who Robin actually is at all, and was just impressed by the fashion.
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIRW_elc-rY
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> On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 4:45 AM, Noel
> <noel@arbelos.eu<mailto:noel@arbelos.eu>> wrote:
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> I don't often comment on groups, but in this case I have to. I agree with
> Mike on this one (hello Mike). This is the very peak of soulessness. These
> poor mites have been programmed out of their very humanity. It doesn't
> bear thinking about what they have had to endure to get them to do what
> they are doing. Please make them stop. Let them out to play in the fresh
> air and the fields. Let them find their souls again.
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> newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com<mailto:newmellotrongroup%40yahoogroups.com>,
> fdoddy@... wrote:
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>> Mike,
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>> You actually thought the five children playing was soulless? It's mind
>> numbing how cynical and bitter you are. If there is pity to had, it's on
>> you, I'm afraid.
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Mike Dickson <mike.dickson@...>
>> To: newmellotrongroup
>> <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com<mailto:newmellotrongroup%40yahoogroups.com>>
>> Sent: Fri, Apr 22, 2011 12:47 pm
>> Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] OT-Future ax slingers
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>> Watched them both. One is as pitifully soulless as the other, I'm
>> afraid.
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>> On 22/04/2011 16:02, Tom Doncourt wrote:
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>> Cool! From that to this-
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>> http://youtu.be/IN21lcvIsvM
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>> On Apr 22, 2011, at 10:54 AM, johnm400s911 wrote:
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>> For the guitar players on the board. This will make you smile.
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>> http://www.youtube.com/embed/yE7waNi5dc0
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