Sometimes I surf the net, just to see what turns up. I love that phrase, "surf the net" - I wish that term burned as many calories as it implies. I came across a site on community drum circles hosted by a guy named Corky - from his picture, he looks to be in his mid-fifties and I had to wonder, what kind of man of a certain age invites others to refer to him as "Corky"? I don't know - but I think I might like him.
I landed on another site, its sole purpose being to provide an avenue by which its writer could rant against drum circles. Seems like an odd thing to rant about to me...but maybe it's a backlash against some of the stuff I've seen written about drumming like "it gets us back to the time before technology separated us from our soul" or about "how it enhances the activity of cellular immune components" (both of which I think are true by the way but read a little pretentious when you see them in black and white). The bottom line is, this guy thinks group drumming is a waste of time. Point taken. But why spend so much time and energy and wit (yes, he has wit...an all too often rarity) dissing it? Behaviorists say that when we have an unreasonable negative reaction to something or someone, it may be because the something or the someone reminds us of an aspect of ourselves that we dislike or find distasteful. It's a way to put the distasteful part of us at a distance and attack it. As Shakespeare wrote, "Me thinks thou doth protest too much." I try to remember that and check my own strong reactions...do I need to look inward...or do I think somebody's a jerk simply because they are?
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