Fortune

Well, since my last blog I have been handed the whole teaching project to run and am working with the admin staff to manage the budget. Which reminds me, I must put that invoice in.

Anyhow, that doesn't eradicate the time I have spent being depressed about human behaviour. Again. It's a family trait; we seem to expect the best from everyone and are always disablingly disappointed and angry when the human race shows itself to be what it is.

I watched some TV last night. David Bowie in his Ziggy Stardust and Diamond Dogs phases and Pink Floyd with Dark Side of the Moon. It was amazing to find out that Dark Side of the Moon was in the charts for 741 weeks - 14 years and 3 months. I'm glad Pink Floyd created Dark Side of the Moon but the thought cropped up that these people - these band members - had made an awful lot of money out of that album and I wondered what they did with it all. It's obvious they used some of it in setting up their own environments to their tastes but after that - what? During the program they honestly declared that their intention was to be rich and famous when they made that album and they sit there with the air and attitude of people who have been successful in their aim.

But I wonder what they do with all that money? Invest it to make more money? Do they invest it promoting technical and musical education for people? Do they do that for people in deprived places or do they simply have high profile schools that only those with advantage can access? Do they invest in ecologically sound projects? Do they fund projects outside music or do they limit themselves to music projects only? Do they limit themselves to creative projects or do they help fund disaster relief like the Boxing Day Tsunami ?

What would you do with billions of pounds, dollars or whatever an unimaginable fortune is in your country?