Jeremy C. Young: John McWhorter thinks campus protests are "a form of abuse" because they prevent his class from listening to John Cage's silent composition, 4'33", in peace. I kid you not. www.nytimes.com/2024/04/23/o...

John McWhorter thinks campus protests are "a form of abuse" because they prevent his class from listening to John Cage's silent composition, 4'33", in peace. I kid you not. www.nytimes.com/2024/04/23/o...

Opinion | I’m a Columbia Professor. The Protests on My Campus Are Not Justice.www.nytimes.com I do not believe that the Columbia demonstrators are driven by antisemitism, but their actions have gone way too far.

that is arguably exactly at odds with Cage’s intention for the piece!!!!!

Somebody grab my smelling salts I do declare

Among other things: Imagine thinking art that compels you to listen to what’s happening around you is preventing listening to what’s happening around you.

It's miraculous that he found a campus that is completely without construction and other forms of noise except for protesting students...

Somehow he was able to type this with his head firmly implanted in his ass.

I’m not a professor and haven’t read the article because paywall but if I were teaching Cage with protests outside I would be opening the windows and showing the students this www.lcdf.org/indeterminac...

That is not just Amen to me, that is Church to me.

I wish I could find more ways to like this, it's important. There's a zen master lesson here.

I really don't want to read that

I bravely kept going until I got to “besmirched” and then I just… couldn’t.

This is… embarrassing

Indeed - this is what you get for an average of sixty-six grand a year just in tuition?

Wow. I can't even.

The first sentence was ludicrous but I don't feel like subscribing to the NYT just to laugh at a single opinion piece, damn them

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