600 People at the Symphony

There must have been only 600 people at the Baltimore Symphony this weekend. The older generation is almost all gone. More people our age have to appreciate how extraordinary they and their music are, or it's all going to vanish all too soon. I've written plenty about the importance of classical music people don't understand, and I won't write anything long again, but what people don't understand is that whether concert halls, or churches, or libraries and museums, or service organizations and fraternal orders, our whole society is built on organizations that foster community and common purpose, and the moment we let them die is the moment we die along with them. These organizations are dying because reform is so long overdue to let in people of every individuality, identity, class, and creed, but communities don't exist to repress individuals, they exist to accommodate individuals in a way that doesn't provoke people who disagree into killing them. If you don't join organizations and demand the community reforms that should have happened decades ago, you will have no communities left, and none of us can stand upright in the winds that blow then.When everybody goes completely their own way, you can't be surprised when nobody in the country has the same frame of reference, talks at cross purposes, and decides that everybody who disagrees is an enemy who needs to be eliminated.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCj_Oeob-s0