Help me finish composing a symphony to celebrate America’s 250th Anniversary! Link to donate 👇🏻
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15 Jul 2025
Writing a symphony for America's 250th.
Here's the progress so far in a single thread:
Chapter 1
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After so many artists backed out, God has stepped in as the great dramatist, architect, musician, painter, and dedicator of the 250th.
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Jun 12
Science fiction books/movies, and a dash of neurodivergence inspired the actions that minted the world's first trillionaire.
Just like classical music set the mental state for the emergence of General Relativity.
ROI from the arts remains undefeated.
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Jun 12
Outstanding!
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America's 250th is almost here.
I've been writing a SYMPHONY for the occasion, & took on some personal debt to get a demo of the 3rd movement.
$35k has been donated so far for a FULL recording with 75 live musicians. I need ~$40k more.
Your help is needed
(link below)
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Jun 12
I’m always struck by these articles.
I’m in a field where the talent that takes a legit shot at a non-teaching-based career is probably 1-in-300k who could make >$150k annually.
Of those, >70% quit, drink/snort/smoke themselves to death, or become dysfunctionally depressed.
Jun 11
Gifted and Talented, or G&T, programs have long been a perennial subject of debate, particularly in New York City, where it has bedeviled mayors for years. Some parents have already washed their hands of the whole G&T business, refusing to participate in what they view as a corrupt system of segregation. But countless others still place significant stock in the G&T designation and what it offers and are comfortable relying on cognitive testing, should it be required, to determine whether a child qualifies.
“When your intelligence is the foundation of your self-perception, failing to achieve feels like soul death,” writes Katie Arnold-Ratliff. But if the limited amount of information we have about gifted kids long-term is any indication, most lead, at best, ordinary lives of modest accomplishment. A 35-year study of 677 gifted children found that by age 50, only 12.3 percent had reached a level of “eminence,” defined as “full professors … Fortune 500 executives … judges and lawyers, leaders in biomedicine, award-winning journalists and writers.” This means 88 percent never did.
Arnold-Ratliff digs into the myth of the gifted child, and how our notions of intelligence may be inherently flawed: nymag.visitlink.me/9mc2Wh
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Eminence is incredibly rare, so 12.3% among gifted students is decidedly over-representative. For example, around 0.023% of Americans are full professors at R1 institutions, yet 22 of 677 (3.25%) of gifted students studied eventually held this position (a ~140x fold increase).
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Musically gifted children have no shot.
But the right ones do it anyway, and the ones that last have emotional/family/religious support.
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Jun 11
I have been informed that Ferris Bueller's Day Off was released 40 years ago today. It's one of my all time favorite films. I explain why in my book Hollywood Samizdat. Maybe you should read it?
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Cameron on his Hero's Journey crossing the threshold into the unknown.
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Girard has made an impact because, working in a philosophical lane, he shows that pretty much everyone falls prey to the tempting “romantic lie” that we can trust ourselves to know independently what our identity is. Identity and trust is relational, with other people — and God
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I've been writing a symphony for America's 250th for the past year.
This 3rd movement melody, I went through multiple versions before landing on this. Will be a clarinet solo.
Donate so it can be recorded by a full orchestra👇🏻
givesendgo.com/a250symphony
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May 22
Writing a symphony for America's 250th.
Chapter 25.
Featuring the great @jameszimmermann
Apr 29
Writing a symphony for America's 250th.
Chapter 24.
Updates on the progress.
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We just finished last night because I think Fennell is a voice worthy of consideration.
The asian Nelly is explained as being a bastard, which I bought no problem. It wasn’t egregious insertion of race for the sake of it to me.
Movie is pretty good, except for two major things that ruined aspects. One, the insertion of braindead Charlie xcx tracks. Completely inappropriate and without justification.
The other is that Fennell suffers from the same temptation of vulgarity that Ari Aster does. A high threshold for ultra violence or sex is fine, GOOD in some circumstances. But both of these directors walk up to the line, evoke whatever emotion/reaction is the goal *perfectly* but THEN take it one step over the line, crossing into the abuse of the device. Takes ya out of the film. And they could lose these things and it be perfect. I don’t know why there isn’t someone there to reel it back a bit before it goes off the rails.
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WUTHERING HEIGHTS: I tried. Made it 15 minutes and turned on the live flight tracker instead. Obnoxious child actress, random Chinese (?) servant, total lack of anything resembling a movie plot. Didn’t even make it to Elordi showing up, that’s how bad this is.
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America's 250th is almost here.
I've been writing a SYMPHONY for the occasion, & took on some personal debt to get a demo of the 3rd movement.
$35k has been donated so far for a FULL recording with 75 live musicians. I need ~$40k more.
Your help is needed
(link below)
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Larger tax-deductible donations may be made here:
scruton.org/a250-symphony
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givesendgo.com/a250symphony
Now over $35,000 in donations made by patriots. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
We did it! Just as promised! #givesendgo
Blessings!!!
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Major prob w/ the longhair actor *anticipating* being interrupted.
See the SCRIPT issue Ben/Matt? Wasn't there a better take Gus?
Cause in trying to prove the intelligence of the character, you eliminate an actable need of the others.
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For clarity: Ponytail guy doesn't have a need. What, to bully someone? Ponytail guy isn't after her. He's trying to expose a guy who is a liar (Ben). Why? To distinguish himself from some construction worker? C'mon. It's honestly pretty weak.
After the "impress some girls" line, you even get an edit that crops out the girl who is sitting right there lol. But then in the famous apples line, ponytail guy is sitting with a different girl.
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Always wanted an opportunity to orchestrate a melody with trumpets a3… but not as some screamer ultra loud/high thing. 🤌🏻
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