On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 9:03 AM, Melissa P <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Original-monologue-is-talent belief is probably yet another outcome of the
> de-emphasis on arts education in this country for maybe the past 30 years
> or so.


As opposed to the long high-art tradition of clog dancing. I am trying to
get my head around the argument that a beauty contest is the arbiter of
high culture.

Again, I could literally not care less (I believe that is the literal way
to use that phrase) who won Miss America. But I don't think there is any
universe in which I could agree that, of all the "talents" on display
there, a young woman choosing to communicate dramatically how using her
skills as a nurse to reach out to and find the humanity in an old,
deteriorating man actually helped her find and value her own voice as a
young professional woman deserves to be the one to ridiculed on some silly
morning show aimed at middle aged women.

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