The Challenge of "Culture"

[Not Afraid]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

Opera is also impressive but I just don't like it. Oh, and it's usually in languages I can't understand, which is a big block for me.

Interesting point in the way that each person percieves and feels things differently. I almost prefer to come at artistic expression from a non-verbal or speficically understood language perspective. While I am an avid reader and wholely appreciate the written word, I like having my other senses participate in or be challenged into cooperating in the processing of feeling and understanding. The language of dance can communicate more to me than an ee cummings poem, or a particular painting may stir more in me through the use of color, line shape and form than a T.C. Boyle story. Music is much the same. If often don't "know" the lyrics of a song - athough I have them memorized, they don't have as much meaning to me as the sounds, the tones, the feel of the music itself. I like music both with and without lyrics equally and don't mind at all if they are in a foreign language, they still communicate me to their essence seomhow.

Somewhere along the line, I either learned how to use these different methods to understand things or I was just born that way. Who knows, but it sure is interesting to think about the different way of interpreting the world around us and why we all have so many disconnects.