Re: Are we living in the shadow of a glorious era?

Post #162,299 by deSitter 6/30/04 3:27:48 PM Reply	Re: Are we living in the shadow of a glorious era? Chopin, Beethoven, Bach, Delacroix, Goya... There isn't a man alive who comes up to their ankles. Well, maybe Vonnegut. -drl
Post #162,300 by pwhysall 6/30/04 3:28:14 PM Reply	Hawking. Peter [link\|http://www.debian.org\|Shill For Hire] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Blog]
Post #162,351 by broomberg 6/30/04 8:56:31 PM Reply	Wakeman
Post #162,381 by Meerkat 6/30/04 11:07:56 PM Reply	Umm, Mr "I've-got-a-flowing-cape-and-a-Casio-complex"? Two out of three people wonder where the other one is.
Post #162,391 by broomberg 6/30/04 11:36:37 PM Reply	Yup
Post #162,426 by Ashton 7/1/04 5:46:25 AM Reply	Music aside Mandela, TuTu, (Yes, Vonnegut), The Japanese Legate in WW-II who gave out all the Letters of Transit to Jews (dunno if he still lives), probably hundreds of others as fully 'advanced human beings' - but unknown for the tawdry mass idea of Celebrity, thus we couldn't hear of them (pre-Web). (We certainly, within last century, have had music-performers second-to none since the invention of the stick-on-a-rock first percussionist) But an embarrasingly small list; suggesting that mere 'techno' expansion per se, has small to negative relationship with the development of Great Spirits; or, if any: ~ inverse; especially during this period of spastic/manic dialing-for-$$. So then, maybe Excellence, or even survival ~= (1/ [techno acceleration] \ufffd [bizness oligarchy] \ufffd [e^100Yn\ufffd]) where Y= the probability of spasm war and n= the number of terminally-suicidal nation-participants Why not? We love to measure our follies to at least 3 decimal places.
Post #162,430 by pwhysall 7/1/04 6:58:03 AM Reply	Gandhi. Peter [link\|http://www.debian.org\|Shill For Hire] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Blog]
Post #162,435 by deSitter 7/1/04 8:48:41 AM Reply	Re: Music aside Art is dead. Science is almost dead. History is now just a story. All we need is drugs, sex, and TV. -drl
Post #162,501 by cforde 7/1/04 1:41:06 PM Reply	MLK jr. Have fun, Carl Forde
Post #162,503 by deSitter 7/1/04 1:44:12 PM Reply	Re: MLK jr. This brings up an interesting point. Political people, good and bad, seem to sprout out of the current social climate - a King was as inevitable as a Hitler - while progress for all seems to be a matter of people "born" to do something. It's these "born to be" people that are really missing now, and that's sad. -drl
Post #162,602 by Ashton 7/2/04 2:40:59 AM Reply	Hmmm provocative Idiot savants, for whatever has gone wrong in their normal accommodation of all the crap [which we ~manage] that lets you pretend to be a member of a complex, illogical social dance.. These might illustrate the sub-process. I mean.. how can one figure a hard-wired ability to run the algorithm for day-dates of various years, say - sans the slightest math inculcation? But then, if all the young Mozarts are killed-off early - in the inner city? or the Newtons psychically murdered - by daily incarceration in a cubicle, doing mind-numbing biz-logic for morons, until all brain activity is homogenized. Etc. And apparently, such enviros are insufficient to produce another Munch - yet, 'logically' there ought to be thousands recreating The Scream ... practically every day, just moments after 'work'. Right? Correspondingly (as you suggest) - a 'political' instinct cannot possibly be prewired, as its milieu is the random accident of birth-date and the flux of those local, by def'n nonlogical 'social' conditions. I shall have to think on this ... Dark Star; the Interstellar Bomb pondering false sensor data

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