Article: 63739 of alt.support.depression From: xsxsxs@freeuk.com (DOG) Newsgroups: alt.support.depression Subject: Re: SOME rules are meant to be broken Date: 28 Jun 2003 11:40:17 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Lines: 38 Message-ID: <3910f684.0306281040.154a4913@posting.google.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 172.186.71.15 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1056825617 31842 127.0.0.1 (28 Jun 2003 18:40:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 28 Jun 2003 18:40:17 GMT Path: news.meer.net!sea-read.news.verio.net!dfw-artgen!sjc-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!HSNX.atgi.net!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail Xref: archive.mv.meer.net alt.support.depression:63739 >Principled lives seem less popular than they once were. A system, set of principles or rules, etc. by which to live life is obviously only needed in the absense of knowing how. Imagine if, in the physical world, we learnt to walk in accordance with sets of principles and rules - 'John Cleese' (Monty Python) the 'Ministry of Funny Walks' would have become a reality! A few disordered thoughts on rules: A rule like most things (everything?) has what you (we) give it, i.e it doesn't have any authority or power in its own right. Breaking a rule in defiance is just a reaction to it i.e. you are still giving it authority and power in some sense just the same as if you were obeying or acting in accordance with it. Rules have a kind of domain in which they are useful (i.e. health and safety). Getting a rule into your head in the 'superego' sense such that you feel bad, sinful, guilty, ashamed of yourself, etc. if you don't behave in accordance with it is something that needs attention. I don't think record companies sell us music, they sell us a physical medium which contains or carries the music. It is becomming increasingly obvious that the physical medium will soon no longer be required to transport music around. If these circumstances had always existed then it would never have been a viable business proposition to set up a record company in the first place. It is in their business interests to make a fuss and drag it out in the courts for as long as possible, much the same as the phone operators did over cheap access to the internet. Since technology brings increasingly high quality recording to musicians living rooms and easy distribution I am not sure why we need the mostly teen and dreadful record company backed mega-bands any way? xs