Re: [bomp] Re: Neil Young Admits Music Can't Change World

[Blair Buscareno <blairb@xxxxxxx>]

hoodoo3005@aol.com wrote:
> At a certain point, music was such a huge focus for so many kids 
> that it had a huge amount of power to influence their thinking.  Now, other 
> forms of entertainment vie for people's attention.  Example:  Cell phones, 
> IMing, texting, YouTube, Facebook (trust me, most of my high school students 
> no longer bother with MySpace), and games, to name a few.  These things did 
> not exist at that point in time.  So while music is still all-important to a 
> few kids, it's only part of what influences them.
>
>
> While I agree with you, I don't know if I'd call IMing, texting and cell phones "entertainment." 

It's weird to think of communication as entertainment, but...Well, maybe 
we need to ask the question differently:  Can conversation be 
entertainment?  I sure think so.  Much of the conversation in question 
is enjoyable to them on some level.

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