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Re:My Free Speech Means You Have to Shut Up by spondylosaurus on Monday November 20, 2023 @11:16PM (#38359142)
Maybe an organic overwhelming influence is how there's a lot of gay and Jewish people in musical theater? Unless it's actually an inorganic influence (thanks to the shady machinations of Big Sondheim...)
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Re:My Free Speech Means You Have to Shut Up by jancsika on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @12:46AM (#38359849)
I've only ever understood "organic" to refer to one of four things:

1. Chemistry

2. Farming/food (under one of various specifications)

3. An oddly-named composition technique in which phrases of music are built up using musical "Lego blocks", championed by Beethoven (and used by Sondheim, btw)[1]

4. I didn't do my research but I'd like to exhibit superiority to some other thing/group. (Otherwise, that other thing is more precisely described as "astroturfing," "fraud," "shills," etc.)

1: this used to be a bit superior, but it's old and obscure now so I grandfathered it in

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