Response to "Equality Celebrates the Ordinary"

Response to “Equality Celebrates the Ordinary”
“…all sounds should have equal opportunity to be heard and appreciated.” Pg.113
• I love Cage’s thought of every little thing, non human thing, should be appreciated. It’s just a way to slow down, and listen.

“Noises, too had been discriminated against; and being American, having been trained to be sentimental, I fought for noises.” Pg. 114
• This is just so cute and funny. To care about something like that so much. Does noise need someone to fight for it? Or is he just talking about everything that we don’t normally take time to appreciate? Not just noise, but germs or smells.

“Encomium” pg.115
• A speech or piece of writing that praises someone or something highly.

“For in examining them – activities which everyone engages in, but does differently – the simultaneous variety and unity of human life seemed evident. And this in itself seemed a form of equal representation.” Pg. 117
• I love this stuff. I studied Anthropology and took many classes about just what people do in everyday life, but do differently in other cities, states, countries… It is so cool to me to find out those things.

“The moment you label something, you take a step – I mean, you can never go back again to seeing it unlabelled… The mystery was gone, but the amazement was just starting.” Pg. 118
• Have you ever tried to just look at something, like you were looking at it for the first time? Like a chair, you know it is called a chair. But they are only called that because we decided it would be. It doesn’t really have a name. It’s just there. And once you know the name of it, I think the wonder goes away. It is definitely harder to see it again as something new and refreshing.