18 May 2006

- Real "Neighborly" -

Gotta love this: the powers that be who run the "neighborhood" swim team have decided on a draconian policy. This is the part I especially like: the team has decided to cut five-year old swimmers who do not make a certain time from the team. Go us! Yes, this is a new policy for the "neighborhood" team. Don't you just love how we're extending Über-competitiveness to the kindergartner set. What happened to fun and participation anyway?

Is this a great country or what?

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Here [in Fidelio] and nowhere else music becomes a rosy dawn, militant religious, the dawning of a new day so audible that it seems more than simply hope. It shines forth as the pure work of Man, as one which had not appeared in the world surrounding Beethoven, a world that existed irrespective of men. Thus music as a whole stands at the farther limits of humanity, but at those limits where humanity, with new langauge and haloed by the call to achieved intensity, to the attained world of "we," is first taking shape. And this ordering in our musical expression means a house, indeed a crystal, but one derived from our future freedom: a star, but one that will be a new Earth.

—Ernst Bloch
The Principle of Hope