Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:NLP Changework vs. Therapy and Coaching |
Posted by: | John Schertzer |
Date/Time: | 06/05/2003 16:59:36 |
Robin, Your chisel sells you the idea of value of chiseling and perhaps the idea that you can make something, in this case a table. Your table sells you the value of the postures you take when using it. You poems sell you the value of their form and content and your playing music sells you the value of arranging sounds the way you do rather than just letting them happen some other way (I'm assuming you play somewhat around a key center, and a particular rhythm, and that you're not working with tone rows like Anton Webern, and even that is a choice that sells itself as an idea). Maybe it's just my opinion, but no action or object is rhetorically innocent, since there are always semantic values implicit in its design and execution. Now, I agree there is a huge difference between a poem (at least some poems, as a poet I'm very sensitive to the attitudes poems try to sell me) and a billboard advertising fast food or tobacco products, but there are only arbitrary places to draw the line between art and advertising. Be honest. best, JS |