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I assume you are offended because you took it personally.


No personal offense was taken, but thanks.

It seems basic in our nature to divide people into "us" and "them."

When I was a kid, Saturday was a terrible time to be watching television. The local UHF station would show reruns of programs like "The Invaders", roller derby, "big time" wrestling... Basically, filler.

The programming included "The World at War", what seemed to me (as a young child) to be a many, many part documentary which included a lot of footage from WWII. It certainly wasn't "Hogan's Heroes."

One particularly memorable clip of film was of bulldozers pushing stacks and stacks of corpses into trenches. Suddenly, this wasn't some long-ago event of history. Those had been people who's only misfortune was that they'd been the "others".

So when I hear people talk about "us" and "them", this is what I think of.

I wish I could say that I've made the world somehow a place where that's harder to happen, but I don't think that's that case.

Peace.

-- David Cuny
My virtual singer development blog

Vocal control, you say. Never heard of it. Is that some kind of ProTools thing?