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12-20-2012, 03:38 PM | #1 |
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Legacies
The band is neither broken up nor still together. It is everchanging and everlasting. It is a commercial brand, with tangible and intangible assets. I'll make a direct comparison for you in a way that I know you'll understand.
I am positive you're a big fan of unhealthy fast food. Let's say that the a new McDonald's opens up down the road from you today, and you go there all the time and start to develop sentimental feelings for it. Now after two years, let's say that only 1 of the original staff of 20 is still working there. Is it still McDonald's? Yes. Now let's say that they pick up 3 new members from the Taco Bell that shut down next door. Do they rename it Taco Bell? No. It's still McDonald's. Do they at least change the name to Taco McDonald's? No. It can go on forever as McDonald's because it is larger than the people who make it work. It's still going to attract a large following every single day, even if it changes the menu and decides not to play, or i should say sell, the same items that it was selling when it first opened up. It has built up a brand image that only a few of the THOUSANDS of restaurants that were ever started have been able to achieve, and should not be thrown away because a few diehard angry customers are upset that the original staff is no longer working there. Because the majority of casual customers couldn't give less of a shit that the original staff isn't working there and will continue to buy up anything McDonald's related. The people who say that the legacy of the band is being tarnished have never been able to explain exactly what a legacy is. It's like the word hope. It doesn't mean jack shit. No one has ever been able to really define it or explain what it produces. Successful people like Billy and Michael Jordan don't worry about things that don't really exist, like legacies. |
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12-22-2012, 08:17 PM | #2 |
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The ship wherein Theseus and the youth of Athens returned had thirty oars, and was preserved by the Athenians down even to the time of Demetrius Phalereus, for they took away the old planks as they decayed, putting in new and stronger timber in their place, insomuch that this ship became a standing example among the philosophers, for the logical question of things that grow; one side holding that the ship remained the same, and the other contending that it was not the same.
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12-22-2012, 08:19 PM | #3 |
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