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Re: About Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library

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Post by quesera »

toochietoo wrote: post #24
nickpeterson wrote: post #21

It is a wonderful program. I wish more billionaires were trying to leave a legacy where their name stands for something more admirable. Will anyone know who Zuckerberg is in 100 years? Probably not.

Will anyone know who one of the most influential founders in technology in history is in 100 years? I think yes…

I wouldn't assume that at all. One hundred years is a long time.

If people in 2123 are still talking about early social media companies, I'll be shocked. Actually I'll be dead, but I would be shocked.

Zuckerberg and Facebook are relevant in the here and now, but they are not obviously Edison/Bell/Ford-level relevant in the long term.

Unless either he, or his company, does something of lasting significance. Maybe Meta will have a next act. Maybe through his charitable foundation. Very much TBD.

Re: About Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library

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Post by elondaits »

MoSattler wrote: post #40
Jun8 wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I find your comment interesting and would like to understand why you hate a large genre of music. Is it the message in the songs, the people, Nashville? My taste in music is questionable (I still listen to Yaz and even Modern Talking occasionally, mixed with 80s disco, which I believe was the epitome of popular music) but I do like many Country songs: putting aside Dolly’s favorites like 9 to 5 (great lyrics and musi…

Are people familiar with Modern Talking outside of Germany?

\o Yes. I’m from Argentina.

Re: About Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library

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Post by flanbiscuit »

hylaride wrote: post #20

I hate, hate, hate country music, but I have an enormous amount of respect for Dolly Parton. She's just a plain old good person, and also extremely savvy from a business and money point of view (while having to plough through patriarchal barriers both emotionally and financially): https://www.joshuakennon.com/dolly-parton/

I used to say things like "I like all music, but country", especially when I was younger. But then I started dating someone who grew up in the south (Georgia and Texas) and I've been exposed to many country songs, spanning many decades and I've found myself enjoying some of them. It's still pretty low on my list of favorite music genres but I can have a good time listening to it.

Not all country music is the same. I lean towards country from the 90s and before. Dolly is definitely my favorite. I enjoy the 90s pop country of Shania Twain and others around that time. Garth Brooks "Friends in Low places" is a fun song for Karaoke, so is Kenny Rogers's "The Gambler". There's a song by Jo Dee Messina called "Heads Carolina, Tails California" from the 90s that has been stuck in my head recently.

All this is to say, it's a big genre with many styles and artists, you might find a song or 2 you'll enjoy.

Re: About Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library

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Post by brookst »

Jun8 wrote: post #38
hylaride wrote: post #20

I hate, hate, hate country music, but I have an enormous amount of respect for Dolly Parton. She's just a plain old good person, and also extremely savvy from a business and money point of view (while having to plough through patriarchal barriers both emotionally and financially): https://www.joshuakennon.com/dolly-parton/

I find your comment interesting and would like to understand why you hate a large genre of music. Is it the message in the songs, the people, Nashville? My taste in music is questionable (I still listen to Yaz and even Modern Talking occasionally, mixed with 80s disco, which I believe was the epitome of popular music) but I do like many Country songs: putting aside Dolly’s favorites like 9 to 5 (great lyrics and musi…

Not the person you’re replying to, but I think it’s reasonable to dislike a genre when one dislikes the things that define the genre.

I don’t like death metal because I find the vocal affectation silly and the range of instrumentation too narrow. I dislike country for exactly the same reasons.

There are genre-defying artists who transcend the category; Patsy Cline comes to mind.

But if someone’s going to sit down and write a song that conforms to all of a genre’s conventions, people who dislike those conventions probably won’t like it.

Re: About Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library

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Post by iancmceachern »

hylaride wrote: post #20

I hate, hate, hate country music, but I have an enormous amount of respect for Dolly Parton. She's just a plain old good person, and also extremely savvy from a business and money point of view (while having to plough through patriarchal barriers both emotionally and financially): https://www.joshuakennon.com/dolly-parton/

I love, love, love country music. I like most types of music, reggae hip hop/r&b, rock, just not death metal really.

I think your post is a real underhanded compliment. It's like saying I really hate football and it's players, but John Elway is an OK dude.

Re: About Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library

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Post by anonymouskimmer »

melling wrote: post #26
pyrelight wrote: post #2

She's able to do all this and still live comfortably and live her dreams. I wonder why more wealthy don't do things like this. It seems most just write a check to Charity X for the tax break and the ego boost. The things Dolly does seem to lend themselves to legacy, and what could a rich man/woman want more than their name immortalized in a social program that helps people.

“I wonder why more wealthy don't do things…” I wonder why so many people want the wealthy to do more things to make the world a better place when the United States has a GDP of $23 trillion dollars. Everyone wants to pay little taxes, have a cheap gallon of gas, and tax the rich to solve our problems, while kicking the can as far down the road as possible. How many problems could have been solved with $32 trillion ht…

The comment you're responding too was wondering why more wealthy people aren't building well-regarded social legacies. Not why rich people weren't solving society's issues.

> How many problems could have been solved with $32 trillion

How many problems were solved with that $32 trillion?

To nitpick, the current US GDP estimate is $26.49 trillion. https://www.bea.gov/news/2023/gross-domestic-product-second-...

In general, I agree with your gist. Hagiographies turn me off, particularly in a republic of citizens (not Great Men).

Re: About Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library

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Post by mattpallissard »

flanbiscuit wrote: post #54
hylaride wrote: post #20

I hate, hate, hate country music, but I have an enormous amount of respect for Dolly Parton. She's just a plain old good person, and also extremely savvy from a business and money point of view (while having to plough through patriarchal barriers both emotionally and financially): https://www.joshuakennon.com/dolly-parton/

I used to say things like "I like all music, but country", especially when I was younger. But then I started dating someone who grew up in the south (Georgia and Texas) and I've been exposed to many country songs, spanning many decades and I've found myself enjoying some of them. It's still pretty low on my list of favorite music genres but I can have a good time listening to it. Not all country music is the same. I…

> But then I started dating someone who grew up in the south (Georgia and Texas) and I've been exposed to many country songs, spanning many decades

It's a big, big genre. And the lines between it, blues, and rock are often blurred.

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Post by sillystuff »

harimau777 wrote: post #30
toochietoo wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Will anyone know who one of the most influential founders in technology in history is in 100 years? I think yes…

This isn't necessarily an exact comparison, but looking at the list of 1934 robber barons on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robber_baron_(industrialist) I only recognized a three of them: J. P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, and Andrew Carnegie. Three more I recognized universities named after them: James Duke (Duke University), Andrew Mellon (Carnegie Mellon University), Cornelius Vanderbilt (Vanderbilt Univ…

> To the degree that I have a positive opinion of Rockefeller and Carnegie, it's because of their philanthropy rather than their industrialism or politics.

I've a friend who's grandparents, in Vietnam, were quite ruthless and accumulated sizable wealth. Now, they sponsor Buddhist monks in an effort to avoid being reincarnated as cockroaches. I suspect analogous motivations for people like Rockefeller, Carnegie, or modern equivalents like Gates and Zuckerberg (even if simply a secular motivation to rehabilitate their poor reputations).

Parton just seems to be a genuinely kind human being.

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