Opinions please

[Jussi M.]

Originally Posted by A. G. Maisey

This thread was started to extract opinions. Arguing against the opinions of others is not really such a great way to encourage people to state their opinions.

Agreed....

Originally Posted by A. G. Maisey

Quite simply it is not possible to understand one world view when working from the base of an entirely different world view.

As already stated, this is my opinion.

...and accepted.

How ever, things are not so black and white. - There is grey also, and that is where the exchange of ideas and opinions can, and will, happen granted that there is motivation for communication.

What Alan states above is that it is not possible to understand one world view when working from the base of another. With this - as a child of a mixed marriage between parents coming from two whole different cultures - I wholeheartedly concur and disagree. - It is not possible! Yet it is possible!

Uhmm... What?

Well... It is my opinion that one can learn to understand a foreign world view technically and thus learn to cope with it. This understanding how ever is clinical in it´s nature. Clinical in the same way that one can learn to play an instrument technically correct yet completely void of that intangible "tribe-uniting" emotional content that makes other people to make a connection with it.

So, is the technically competent musician a musician to begin with or a fraud?

What makes a musician? Alike we could ask what is the nature of the understanding we are actually discussing herein?