On Judging
“When you listen to music, never ask before, ‘who is the composer? Who is the conductor? Who is the soloist, what orchestra, ...’ Then after you’ve heard it you may ask. Otherwise you might be prejudiced.” So said the choir conductor to me.
And I thought of judging works, writings:
To send all articles to a news paper for publishing anonymously, so the editor can’t be prejudiced, scared, forced, fooled by a well known, great name.
When the editor thinks it is good, he calls the author to reveal his identity and publishes it.
To also send an anonymous work for a competition with anonymous nominators. After it was chosen as the winners, the authors may reveal themselves. It would be good and it must be possible if we could make something like that for winning a Prize, the Nobel Prize for literature, science, peace, ...
That’s what I call true, unprejudiced judging. The small, unknown could vie with the great and well known. Except the jury are poor judges, can’t judge and have to depend on the judgement of the nominators.
Yet, I don’t believe this will change soon in the near future. No courage, no imagination. Do you remember the law of inertia i.e. reluctance to change? Not only unprejudiced judging but also to keep the world population low by birth control, also have Volley Ball, Basket Ball classified according to height or stature. Unless we want to stay fools and be fooled for yet another thousand years. Ha. Ha.
October 2012
“When you listen to music, never ask before, ‘who is the composer? Who is the conductor? Who is the soloist, what orchestra, ...’ Then after you’ve heard it you may ask. Otherwise you might be prejudiced.” So said the choir conductor to me.
And I thought of judging works, writings:
To send all articles to a news paper for publishing anonymously, so the editor can’t be prejudiced, scared, forced, fooled by a well known, great name.
When the editor thinks it is good, he calls the author to reveal his identity and publishes it.
To also send an anonymous work for a competition with anonymous nominators. After it was chosen as the winners, the authors may reveal themselves. It would be good and it must be possible if we could make something like that for winning a Prize, the Nobel Prize for literature, science, peace, ...
That’s what I call true, unprejudiced judging. The small, unknown could vie with the great and well known. Except the jury are poor judges, can’t judge and have to depend on the judgement of the nominators.
Yet, I don’t believe this will change soon in the near future. No courage, no imagination. Do you remember the law of inertia i.e. reluctance to change? Not only unprejudiced judging but also to keep the world population low by birth control, also have Volley Ball, Basket Ball classified according to height or stature. Unless we want to stay fools and be fooled for yet another thousand years. Ha. Ha.
October 2012
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