Humanity is offered a permanent cure for hunger and poverty but in order to accept has to either accept mandatory piano lessons for every human OR everyone has to shave their heads forever. What would you vote for?
No brainer. Mandatory piano lessons. I really think we need to include more of the arts in our education systems. Plus, you didn’t specify how long these lessons had to continue. If ever child has a required semester (or year) of piano and can branch off as they see fit from there, awesome. Learning piano requires you to learn how to read music at least at a rudimentary level and could easily be integrated into a larger class structure. It sounds loverly.
The shaved head thing would really just be creepy. The idea of an entire nation of people with the exact same look going on is really distopian (why does tumblr think I’m trying to say pianist here?) to me although it really is just a tiny thing.
Addendum: If I had originally been aware of the horror that is never ending piano lessons and recitals, I would have likely chosen the horrible looking distopian future (which would be, at least in appearance, full of skinheads).
