Moonhead
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ORIGINAL: stellauk I strongly feel we need to invest much more in culture, particularly among the younger generation, and provide them with opportunities for occupation and to develop their creativity. We have the technology, with a computer, the right software and equipment an investment of say $200 any young person should be able to come up with a music album, a gallery of photos, or even a feature film. If we inspired them to be creative and taught them the skills and techniques to make something of their creativity I feel it would give the younger generation opportunities to develop a better sense of identity and a much more positive outlook towards life. Children and young people are our future, we can't expect any more from them than what we gave them ourselves. When we invest in them and give them opportunities we are investing in the future growth and evolution of our culture and society. Of course, the steadily increasing banalisation and intellectual impoverishment of mass media culture leaves the guardians of society's dreams and visions pretty rabidly opposed to any such measures being taken, I'd suspect. If any teen chavling with a laptop knows that they can make a better album than whatever attention seeking talentless fuckwit with a voice like a goose being fisted by Rondo Hatton won this year's X Factor, for little or no money, then that could start harming record sales, couldn't it?
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