Art is a Hammer by George Fish
| ART IS A HAMMER by George Fish WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A HOOSIER & HOW TO OVERCOME IT Hoosiers & the support of Art & Culture My good friend, Indianapolis blues band drummer FURIOUS GEORGE, says tellingly: “People will think nothing of paying someone to fix their toilet, but they won’t pay a dime for creative or artistic work. They think you should do it for free.” Now that describes an ATTITUDE that SUCKS!! The meaning of being Hoosier As true, ingrained HOOSIERS, we know instinctively that: · Not only are we a cut above all other mere mortals, we are also holy gurus and sacred maharishis and · No matter what, we never make misteaks! What to do to overcome being a Hoosier KILL THE HOOSIER WITHIN YOU! NOTABLE WORDS FROM NOTABLE HOOSIERS The following two aphorisms from my academic advisor at IU- Bloomington I believe worthy of note & preservation. SCOTT GORDON’S MAXIM Economics is not an exercise in pure mathematics. For the use of mathematics to be valid, the results must make economic sense. WHY I CALL MYSELF A UTILITARIAN I call myself a utilitarian because no one ever died or went to prison over Jeremy Bentham. SCOTT GORDON DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS EMERITUS INDIANA UNIVERSITY – BLOOMINGTON Other notable words LAYIN’ IT ON THE LINE! You can call a woman a bitch and a whore in a rap song, but you can’t tell her she’s pretty. That’s sexual harassment. Harvey Cook Indianapolis bluesman who hates rap because it disrespects women AMONG THE MANY, MANY WORDS TO CHERISH ALWAYS FROM THE GREATEST HOOSIER OF ALL While there is a lower class I am of it. While there is a criminal class I am in it. While there is a soul in prison I am not free. I want to rise with the ranks, not above them. Better to vote for what you want and not to get it than to vote for what you don’t want and to get it. Socialism will not make men good, but it will make them better. Eugene V. Debs socialist and labor leader a Hoosier here forgotten and denigrated, but one who lived his whole adult life in Terre Haute, Indiana |
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