fallen verses

I’ve already done my requisite one post for NaBloPoMo, so this is extraneous, bonus, extra-special and just for you.  Seth Godin has an interesting post about:

an industry which:

• Indebts most of its customers, sometimes for twenty or more years a person
• Not only consumes most of four years of its customer’s time, but impacts its prospects for years before even interacting with them
• Enjoys extremely strong brand preferences between competitors and has virtually no successful generic substitutes
• Dramatically alters relations within a family, often for generations
• Doesn’t do it on purpose

…and

 

…according to most of the studies I’ve seen, there’s very little or no difference in the efficacy of one competitor vs. another.

And that’s not all!  While reading the Novermber Poetry magazine, I read an article by Richard Rorty.  I’m not fond of his philophical work, but I would like to quote the end of his article.  I think this is a message we, as poets and artists, need more people to see:

Cultures with richer vocabularies are more fully human – farther removed from the beasts – than those with poorer ones; individual men and women are more fully human when their memories are amply stocked with verses.

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