It Is Not the Instrument But the Notes That Produce the MusicPosted by Hooper Michael on April 6th, 2021 Remember the ''Sound of Music'' which incidentally is my favorite movie, the song says ''let's begin from the very beginning, an excellent notes to sing. Once you read, you start out with ABC, when you sing, you start out with Do Re Me. Friends, let's start from the very beginning to supply the right notes to the music of life. In an orchestra, the different sets of instruments are used for rhythm, beat and tune. The high and low pitches are modulated; the treble, bass and tenor follow the note in harmony. The ultimate product may be the music we love to listen and dance with. This will not happen in life, the variety of instruments designed to express our different needs and to fulfill them however tend to be fed with bad notes to distort the music of humanity that dissatisfy needs at all levels in all aspects. Contradictions, confusion and conflict obviously occur to distract, destabilized, and threatened existence of life. The threat giver then justifies the threat, and such threat begets threat which makes violence beget violence, hatred beget hatred and killings beget killings. The cycle goes on because the discorded music encourages a lot more disharmony. Why do we blame religion for our human failure to obtain the right note to the music of life? Why do we blame the various tools when we neglect to operate and do not utilize the tool for an improved world? Why do we blame communities, race, religion, creed for the miserable human personal failure? Why do we blame weapons when it is the weapon holders who did the crime? The missing link is the correct notes in our conscience to help institutions produce the music to listen and dance with. Give a joyful beautiful and melodious note to the conscience to play a harmonious music to which all can dance joyfully. Provide a cacophony note, the music will disrupt the hearing ability and create stress in the environment. Lest, we, the musicians play the right note in our conscience to give a melodious music of life, the discorded tune will disharmony. Institutions are instruments designed for enhancing mankind's existence on the planet but have been fed with bad notes to help exploit as contrary to the desired goal of protection and building life. The institutions developed as an instrument for the nice of mankind is not meant to victimize the users for the advantage of the few. Once the institutions as instrument no longer serve the purpose and become defunct to serve interest of all, it is not the institution that has got rotten, it's the diminished principle and ethics which are the notes, which makes the institution rotten. Herein lies the concept of locating the correct note to sing inside our lives today. Religious, Political, Economic and Social institutions (with family institution at the bottom level) have already been constructed over past civilizations as instruments to develop and enhance human existence. We, the players in the music of life keep on feeding the institutions with notes without morality to create unpleasant cracking sound certainly not suitable to a harmonious living. The communist system met its demise from excess control and now capitalist institution is dwindling from excess freedom. The dictatorial Middle East got shaken by atrocities committed on its own people and the bureaucracy of new democracies is incompetent and haughty. The institutions outlived their utility beneath the common underlying missing note of 'humanity' that had deliberately missed or avoided to nurture and care and have been misused for survival of the power brokers. Today, we stand puzzled and amazed being unsure of how to go further, as we perhaps consoled ourselves ''to overcome the dilemma someday'; we appear silly and absolutely empty in our boastful civilization and development. We've the instruments (with the proper to select who should govern us), we never learnt well to utilize the instrument by exercising our rights, so we allowed the misused to go on to reach the brink and it's really faltering. And we still remained thick skinned enough never to realize as yet where in fact the fault lies while shifting the blame from the musicians who usually do not utilize the right notes to sing to the instruments. Institutions, Structures and Systems as instruments and tools are humanly creation with rationality. So long as humans got it right, it went right. When, humans opt to sidetracked rationality and morality, the institution, structure and system get shaken. The missing underlying key note that causes the deterioration is the '' absence of humanity'' propagated by ''Humans'' of the planet Earth in the institutions. The discord in the music produced disrespect and disregard, not desiring to recognized needs and existence of others and calculating to occupy the global space to oneself alone. Storm Developmentz , global citizens in almost all as the musicians have the power to bring change, to persuade governments through the rights to franchise, to check out the correct notes to sing in institutions and to start from the beginning all over again to utilize the right notes in the instruments to help make the wrong right.Like it? Share it! More by this author |