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Mar 29, 2023Liked by Brian D. O’Leary

What if the Beetles is an example of a successful band, instead of a failed band? They disintegrated, they imploded,….but most of them split up and created music on their own, in their own way. One may argue that the music generated when they were split up wasn’t as good as when they were a band all together, ….. on the flip side, it is quite possible that the Beatles best music was already behind them.

And what if they recognized that their best days as a band were behind them. As an institution, if your best days are behind you, I’d argue that it might be better to “break up the band,” so the institution doesn’t become stagnant and ineffective in driving its purpose of making great music.

Instead of giving into the pressures of staying together to produce jobs and money at the expense of quality and competent work, maybe it is better for most institutions to implode and disintegrate so we can grow something new and better from the ashes. Wouldn’t this be a more desirable path for some of our educational systems in this country, or for media institutions,…or for O’Leary’s Blazers?

-Mr. Contrarian

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Mar 29, 2023·edited Mar 29, 2023Author

Perhaps. They were successful and remain "successful" today. Doesn't change the fact that it is a failed band.

It is not a binary equation. Plus, "successful" and "failed" aren't necessarily true antonyms in this analysis. As in a lot of these discussions, it is a matter of degree.

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