THE PRE-WIRED BRAIN

YOU DON'T HAVE TO READ "STEPHAN PINKERS" BOOK'S
{HOW THE MIND WORKS,THE BLANK SLATE,ETC.}TO CATCH
SCIENTISTS ON TV MAKING ERRONOUS STATEMENTS ABOUT
THE NATURE OF NATURE AND THE NATURE OF
THE HUMAN MIND;BUT IT HELPS.JUST LAST NIGHT ON A SHOW ABOUT
ANIMALS,INSECTS,BIRDS AND SUCH WHO MAKE THIER OWN
CONSTRUCTIONS WITH NO PREVIOUS EXPIERIENCE; A SCIENTIST
STATEDED AT THE END HOW AMAZING THIS ABILITY IS CONSIDERING
THAT "HUMANS CAN'T DO ANYTHING WITHOUT BEING TAUGHT".
THIS IS A TOTALLY FALSE STATMENT.HUMANS MANAGE TO LEARN
A NUMBER OF HIGHTLY COMPLEX SKILLS WITHOUT BEING TAUGHT;
THE MAIN ONE BEING LANGUAGE;WHICH NO OTHER ANIMAL HAS
MASTERED WHIETHER TAUGHT OR NOT.
ONE OF THE GREATIST,IF NOT THE GREATIST SKILLS OF ANY
LIVING ORGANISM ON PLANET EARTH IS THE ABILITY OF A
GROWING HUMAN BABY TO LEARN LANGUAGE WITHOUT BEING
FORMALLY TAUGHT-BOTH SPEAKING AND UNDERSTANDING.
THE HUMAN MIND IS NOT A BLANK SLATE ! IT COMES WITH CERTAIN
INNATE ABILITY'S AND ONE OF THEM IS TO UNDERSTAND AND
SPEAK WORDS.OUR BRAINS ARE PRE-WIRED TO HAVE THIS ABILITY.
THAT BRAINS CAN LEARN TO SPEAK AND UNDERSTAND SPEECH
SIMPLY FROM BEING EXPOSED TO OTHER HUMANS DOING THE
SAME MAY BE THE MOST MIRACLOUS EVENT A HUMAN CAN WITNESS.
BUT AS 'PINKER' POINTS OUT IT'S REALLY JUST THE WAY OUR BRAINS
WORK.

WRITTEN BY PETE HOLLY-2008-COPYRIGHT-ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

RE-THINKING BOISE IDAHO

THE CITY OF BOISE,IDAHO'S NAME HAS BEEN MUCH MALIGNED OVER
THE YEARS.NOTHING AGAINST JOHNNY CARSON BUT HE IS PROBABLY
MORE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE AMERICAN PUBLIC ASSOCIATING THE
WORDS BOISE,IDAHO WITH A PLACE THAT IS BACKWARDS AND OUT
OF TOUCH WITH MODERNITY{LENO & LETTERMAN CONTINUE IT'S USE}
IT WAS THE CITY HE NAMED MOST WHEN THE JOKE CALLED FOR THE
NAME OF A "HICKTOWN" FOR IT'S PUNCHLINE AND SO PEOPLE WHO
DIDN'T KNOW BETTER THOUGHT OF BOISE IN THIS MANNER SINCE CARSON
REACHED SUCH A LARGE AUDIENCE.
THERE ARE SOME ATONISHING IRONIES WHEN ONE LOOK'S AT THE
TRUE FACTS ABOUT BOISE AND IDAHO.

1.CARSONS CAREER WAS POSSIBLE ONLY BECAUSE OF THE INVENTION
OF TV WHICH HAPPENED IN IDAHO,NOT FAR FROM BOISE BY PHILO T.
FARNSWORTH.

2.POTATO'S ARE THE NUMBER ONE SOURCE OF FOOD IN THE WORLD AND
IDAHO GROWS THE LARGEST AMOUNT.{INDEED-THE WORLD AS WE KNOW
IT COULD NOT EXIST WITHOUT POTATO'S}.

3.THE MAN WHO DESIGNED THE CHUNNEL IS A RESIDENT OF BOISE,IDAHO.
IT'S THE LARGEST AND MOST COMPLEX STRUCTURE EVER BUILT BY MAN.

4.FOR THE BETTER PART OF THE 20TH CENTURY MORRISON-KNUDSEN WAS
THE LARGEST CONSTRUCTION COMPANY IN THE WORLD AND WAS AND
STILL IS HEADQUARTERED IN BOISE;NOW UNDER THE NAME
"THE WASHINGTON GROUP".

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13."FUNKY BROADWAY"-WILSON PICKETT

IF THERE IS A FUNKIER RECORD THAN "FUNKY BROADWAY" I'VE YET
TO HEAR IT.RECORDED AT FAME STUDIOS IN MUSCLE SHOALS,AL.,IT
PACKS A MIGHTY BIG SOUL SHOUT INTO IT'S BRIEF THREE MINUTE
LENGTH.THE RECORD CONTAINS WHAT MUST BE THE BIGGEST BASS
SOUND OF ANY RECORDING OF THE 60'S OR 70'S.THE MUSCLE SHOALS
HOUSE BAND WAS FAMOUS FOR THIER ABILITY TO CREATE THIS AND
MANY OTHER SOULFUL AND FUNKY SOUNDS.WILSON PICKETT IS BY
FAR THE MOST INTENSE SOUL SHOUTER OF ALL TIME-RENDERING
SCREAMS OF JOY THAT WOULD HAVE RUINED ANY OTHER SINGERS
VOCAL CHORDS.IT TRUELY WAS A MIRACLE THE WAY WILSON COULD
BLOW PEOPLE DOWN WITH HIS SCREAMS AND THEN CAUSUALLY RETURN
TO HIS INCREDIBLE SOULFUL SINGING VOICE.ONLY HE COULD DO ALL
THAT AND TAKE IT TO THE TOP TEN.

BY PETE HOLLY-COPYRIGHT-2008

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12."I HAD TO MUCH TO DREAM [LAST NIGHT]"-THE ELECTRIC PRUNES

THE QUINTISENTIAL PSYCHADELIC GARAGE BAND SONG OF THE 1960'S.
SUBSTITUTING "DREAM" FOR DRINK PLACED THE SONG IN A NEW REALM OF
INTERPRETATION THAT DID NOT EXIST PRIOR TO THE 1960'S AND HAS
SELDOM BEEN SEEN OR HEARD OF SINCE.
FOR A BRIEF MOMENT THE MINDS OF AMERICANS OPENED IN A WAY
THAT HAD PREVIOUSLY ONLY BEEN KNOWN THRU RELIGOUS EXPIERIENCE
OR BY THE SUPERNATURAL, WHICH AS ALDOUS HUXELY NOTED WAS
"JUST THE NATURAL WORLD WITHOUT ALL IT'S NAME AND LABELS.
THE SONG HAS POWER RARELY ACHIEVED IN ANY OF
TODAY'S MUSICAL ENVIRONMENT'S-IF AT ALL.A TRUE CLASSIC.

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11."THE MESSAGE"-GRANDMASTER FLASH & THE FURIOUS FIVE
"THE MESSAGE" IS THE MOST IMPORTANT SONG OF THE 1980'S.
IT HERALDED THE BEGINING OF THE RAP-HIP-HOP REVOLUTION.
AT THE TIME{1982} I WAS WALKING THE STREETS OF NEW YORK
CITY AND EVERYWHERE I WENT I'D HEAR THIS SOUND-THIS MUSIC.
I THOUGHT IT WAS IT WAS JUST A NEW YORK THING.I STARTED TO
LIKE IT.IT WAS SO FRESH.WHEN I READ THE LYRICS IN THE NEW
YORK ROCKER I WAS AMAZED.NOBODY IN ROCK WAS SAYING
ANYTHING IMPORTANT IN THIER MUSIC BUT GRANDMASTER
FLASH'S LYRICS ABOUT THE CONDITIONS IN N.Y.C. IN 1982 WERE
SPOT ON.I HAD ONLY BEEN THERE A FEW MONTHS BUT EVERYTHING
HE RAPPED ABOUT REFLECTED EXACTLY WHAT I'D SEEN AND
HEARD.NEW YORK CITY WAS STILL AN AMAZING PLACE-BUT IT
WAS IMPOSSIBLE NOT TO NOTICE THE CRIME,VIOLENCE,GIANT RAT'S,
BIGOTRY,PREJUDECE,AND CORRUPTION-WITH LITTLE ORDER AND
ALOT OF CHAOS.BLACK ARTISTS HAD TO BECOME GANGSTERS
IN ORDER TO BREAK INTO THE MUSIC BUSINESS AND THEY HAD
TO WARN PEOPLE-"DON'T PUSH ME,CAUSE I'M CLOSE TO THE EDGE".
WE ALL WERE.

PETE HOLLY-2008-COPYRIGHT-ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

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#10-"TIMER"-LAURA NYRO

THERE IS LITTLE THAT CAN BE SAIDOF LAURA NYRO THAT CAN COME
CLOSE TO EXPRESSING THE AMAZING TALENT THAT WAS HER MUSICAL
SOUL.THOUGH LAURA WROTE HITS FOR MANY ARTISTS{ELI'S COMING-THREE DOG NIGHT-STONED SOUL PICNIC-5TH DIMENSION-STONY END-BARBARA STRIESAND}IT IS HER OWN VERSIONS OF THESE TIMELESS CLASSICS THAT YOU'LL
FIND THE REAL MAGIC OF LAURA NYRO.HER RANGE IS LARGE,AND HER ARRANGMENTS,AS COMPLEX AS THEY ARE,SOUND AS CATCHY AND SWEET AS
ANY GREAT POP SONG YOU'VE EVER HEARD.LAURA WAS ONE OF THE GREATS.
HER MUSIC TRANSENDENT.SHE BELONGS AT THE TOP OF THE LIST OF AMERICA'S
GREATIST POP SONGWRITERS AND PERFORMERS.DIG THAT "TIMER"

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