Orchestral Manoeuvres No Longer in the Dark

Steyn On-line ^ | July 23, 2020 | Tal Bachman

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The irony is that blind auditions were first introduced to eliminate racial prejudice in selecting musicians. When, after decades of use, blind auditions didn’t deliver the desired result, the procedure was deemed “racist.”

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This was anticipated way back in 1961 by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

A quick and fun read.
http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html

“HARRISON BERGERON”

“THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General.”

...”Ladies and Gentlemen,” said the ballerina, reading the bulletin. She must have been extraordinarily beautiful, because the mask she wore was hideous. And it was easy to see that she was the strongest and most graceful of all the dancers, for her handicap bags were as big as those worn by two-hundred pound men...”