[Fmpro] Unions and futures

[Chris Alpiar]

I agree with you Rick, however I believe that promoting positive ideals and
focusing on creating change we can at the very least keep our art alive and
kicking. I have a love/hate relationship with capitalism. But regardless of
my personal feelings it is the society we are in and its winning over all
the other ways of life. I want to figure out what we can do to get our claws
in this thing deep enough and in the right way to keep our art alive. I know
it sounds romantic and naïve and all manner of other things but I won't give
up. I love it too much and I would prefer to be the focus of scorn then to
see film score composing be reduced to the crap that (much) pop music has
been already.

-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Blanc [mailto:pazuni at sbcglobal.net] 
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 2:23 PM
To: Chris Alpiar
Subject: Re: Unions and futures

Chris,

I don't know if its fair and just, I just think it is the way markets work. 
The Pony Express was a great outfit and a wonderful part of history but they

are out of business.  the mobility of the marketplace is the sovereign 
principle of capitalism.  Capitalism seems to be the best method of 
organising economies for the greatest good for the largest populations. 
Under capitalism people make economic choices.  They may undercut, they may 
go overseas.  It can get brutal but its the nature of the animal.

Now you may decide you don't like capitalism, and that is a legitimate 
judgment.  But if we look at the world today it is getting -- for better or 
for worse -- more capitalistic, not less.  Therefore my predictions are 
based on that understanding.  I'm not necessarily predicting the future I 
would wish for as much as predicting what I believe is actually going to 
happen.

Rick