The Mellotron Group

Well said, Chris!
 
 
 
In a message dated 4/24/2011 1:43:12 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
unobtainiumkeys@gmail.com writes:

 
 
 
Well if not mistaken, the letters next to the video say DPRK, which means  
"Democratic People's Republic of Korea".
 
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.
 
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.
 
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).
 
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!
 
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. 
 
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. 
 
 
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.
 
 
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.
 
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.
 
 
Going back to what I said about musically copying - here's  a modern Korean 
pop song. It's simultaneously humourous,  tragic, and irritating.
 
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.  
 
 
_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIRW_elc-rY_ 
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIRW_elc-rY) 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 



On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 4:45 AM, Noel <_noel@arbelos.eu_ 
(mailto:noel@arbelos.eu) > wrote:


 
 
 
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.  


--- In _newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_ 
(mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.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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> From: Mike Dickson <mike.dickson@...>
> To:  newmellotrongroup <_newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_ 
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> 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_ (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_ 
(http://www.youtube.com/embed/yE7waNi5dc0) 
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