Thursday, August 04, 2005

Nostalgia or Really still living in the past ? Spicks, specks ABC TV We enjoy it, mostly !
Nostalgia is fine as long as it doesn't reflect a childish mentality. I don't mind the trip down memory lane as long as we don't get stuck there. Perhaps we all bring our predjudices with us but as an unexpected reminder of cul de sacs ,it would be great if just for 30minutes we had some relief each week from the everpresent old ABC church chants
Sorry fellows ,but on one of these "old issues" you got it wrong. You can't switch the Light off. You all know very well if you are going to play historian, or wise with words( because most of you know better) that people just ignore the Light. After all, whose music is selling on your ad breaks. The Soweto gospel choir . Is it Good words, good music, new songs or old songs, or on the wholistic front- just wonder material ? tell us next week what you think ? Can’t you say what Bob Carr said ? That the left is ageing and becoming more fanatical in its empty reactionary stances? There is no light after all eh? --only darkness ?
Ignoring the light is the norm, and switching it off is anthropomorphic driven myth- the driver of that irrational fanatical power that prevents reality therapy and sustainable change at the good old ABC. Nostalgia is fine as long as it doesn't reflect a childish attitude .

There are none so blind as those who will not see, who still call Dylan god ,or those who quench the interest of the young in alternatives. ( via decades of ridicule)
The light is still on and young people are increasingly choosing to ignore the ABC and its stuffy old approach to songs worth singing .Give me Psalms 96:1 anyday instead of some old song or some old shell of a hero god like Dylan .


On the whole I really like your program.
Like many evenings "home" , I switch off when the ABC fail to value what's truly valuable ( a very childish thing) and with parts of the past that are imaginary, immature and blinkered in vision . ABC is very much the poorer for all this monoculture of tired old blinkered and branded stuff .Grow up ABC!