Slashdot, the newsfeed for IT professionals carries today a disturbing story:

"Classical music is being used increasingly in Great Britain as a tool for social control and a deterrent to bad behavior. One school district subjects badly behaving children to hours of Mozart in special detention. Unsurprisingly, some of these youth now find classical music unbearable. Recorded classical music is blared through speakers at bus stops, outside stores, train stations and elsewhere to drive away loitering youth. Apparently it works. Detentions are down, graffiti is reduced, and naughty youth flee because they find classical music repugnant."

Someone has obviously been watching Clockwork Orange... :-(

It is a sad state of affairs that any musical genre could be used in such a way - particularly when we are subjected to mindless muzak, often at ear-splitting volumes, in many stores and shopping centres - precisely the places where live musicians, buskers, and so forth would traditionally settle and at least offer something original and personal...