No busking is not begging.

Long ago when the practice of busking began entertainment wasn't as easily found as it is in our very electronically connected world today. Now, many of us on the planet can enjoy a vast array of entertainment choices. With only the push of a button we are bombarded with entertainment overload. Rival global conglomerates and their sponsors vie for our attention in hopes of gaining increased product market share and to ensure product loyalty. One simple example of this is the lengths that some companies will go to follow the browsing habits of those who frequent the web with software programs that spy on these patterns. The sophistication of advertising online via pop-up ads, spybots and spam has grown out of control. Is it any wonder that in our very commercial world that some might try to malign busking and liken it to begging? Unless major businesses are willing to back such activities with some kind of new reality TV show, sitcom, world tour, or twist it into some kind of venue whereby they can turn a profit from the venture for themselves they will forever continue to equate it as less than the mass produced varieties that they peddle. I, for one, don't agree with that point of view. I'm glad to read here that so many of you hold busking in such high regard.

If I don't see ya in the future, I'll saw ya in the pasture.

Or perhaps on some street corner near you.