“If I had a message to my contemporaries it is surely this: Be anything you like, be madmen, drunks, and bastards of every shape and form, but at all costs avoid one thing: success . . . If you are too obsessed with success, you will forget to live. If you have learned only how to be a success, your life has probably been wasted.”
― Love, and Living
Back in the early ’90s, in the music world, there was a rejection of what was considered “corporate rock”. Out of this rejection, the indie rock scene was born. Suddenly so-called indie labels were springing up everywhere – Alternative Tentacles, Sub-Pop, Restless, Discord, Lookout Records, Epithath, just to name a few. Buying indie records and supporting the bands that released them, was seen as a rejection of the corporate influence.
Well, huge corporations didn’t become huge out of sheer luck. The big labels like Warner Brothers, Sony, Capital, quickly caught the drift and countered by buying up independents. They would continue releasing music under the independent moniker but the profits were going in the corporate bank account. Record buyers might have thought they were supporting the local DYI effort, but the reality was that the same old people were getting paid. It was an eye-opener for me, and one that has become quite relevant when pursuing education issues.
The casual observer likely believes that schools are governed by school boards and superintendents, overseen by the state department of education and the state school board. The General assembly sets policy that they feel supports the vision and desires of state CONTINUE READING: SHOW ME THE MONEY – Dad Gone Wild