I didn't think my tuna analogy would be challenged,
I didn't 'challenge' your tuna analogy. I showed you exactly how apt it is. You just don't like that.
but I'll change it.
Do I need to have gone through the hard yards of baking a cake to appreciate a cake from a first-class bakery?
And, would you ever say to somebody 'you shouldn't eat cake that you did not go through the hard yards of baking yourself. It's disrespectful to the people who baked it'.
I do believe that someone who is an experienced and knowledgeable baker would be able to appreciate a cake from a first class bakery in a way that a non-baker might not be able to do.
An artist who garners praise from the public surely appreciates the praise. But the praise from an informed person is indeed more gratifying. Who would not wish to have their artistry appreciated by someone who knows what they are talking about vs someone who likes something because the media tells them they are supposed to like it.
Yes. Mass commercialisation is a good thing and allows people to experience good things they would otherwise never have been able to.
Mass commercialization has both good and bad points. It is foolish to refuse to recognize both the good and the bad.
Why should I be forced to learn about something I have no interest in?
Who is talking about 'forcing' you to learn anything. You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make him drink. No one can make you think, as you have so convincingly demonstrated.
Please note that this does not mean I'm not interested in learning. I am very interested in learning -- I have two degrees and have done both arts and sciences.
But I'm interested in learning on my terms, not someone else's terms.
I'm happy for you. No one is attempting to force you to learn anything.
When I watch Xena (peace be upon her), I don't know if and how radically Greek myths have been adapted for mass consumption. I just love watching escapist fantasy.
Good for you?
You're missing out quite a bit, though, by not knowing anything about Greek mythology.
Wouldn't mass commercialisation help that? If people are interested in learning about something they'll learn about it.
Mass commercialization generally promotes a sanitized, false version of the authentic. It tricks people into believing they they 'know' the authentic when really, they only 'know' whatever version will generate profits for the corporation.
Sure, it is possible that some will be
The disdain is palpable. Indeed, her poisonous language of Australia having 'colonial ties' is breathtaking - Australia was the country being colonised!
Mm, her point was that Australia was colonized.
The point of yoga is whatever people want it to be.
No, it's not.
Neither you nor anybody else have the moral right to dictate whether someone's doing something 'right' or not, especially when it's their own body they're doing it to and nobody is preventing you doing it any way you want.
Nor is anyone asserting that they can or should be able to prevent you or anyone else from doing whatever they like (within the confines of the law).
You are free to go to as many fake yoga classes as you like and to call out namaste whenever you like.
And other people are free to form opinions as well. And to publicly and privately express those opinions.
That's great. It's wonderful to learn things when it's on your own terms and it accords with your interests, isn't it?
Actually, I greatly regret the lack of musical education when I was growing up. I took some care to make sure my children had better opportunities. Which they did not necessarily appreciate at the time. But they do appreciate music much more fully than I do. Because they were taught it, not always of their own free will.
I don't like hearing arguments that are literally incoherent from the beginning, and I do not like to see widespread acceptance of this incoherence.
I think you have confused 'incoherent' with 'inconvenient.'
I found the author to be much more articulate than any of your arguments.
If their ideas are so sacred and transcendent, why can't they withstand mass commercialisation?
Really?
Nobody is holding a gun to their heads and confiscating religious texts. Nobody is telling them they can't do yoga exactly as they want to.
Yeah, you didn't actually read the article. People actually DID prevent them from doing yoga and engaging in other cultural practices, using force. And then brought back sanitized, more 'convenient' versions when it suited the invaders to do so.