Yeah, I do. I think we're floundering partly due to a lack of serious thought and engagement with anything challenging.You think we need it now? Feels like it's peaked for a while to me. But no idea what's next or what's needed.
i do dislike that kind of thing. It's trite and works on the assumption that Joyce was a mercenary with no morals and no vocation for writing.
It's not just about the art. It's about pushing yourself. You get people spending hours in the gym until they're carved out of stone, but the mind remains mush.
the bit you do. where you pretend you are over the desire to be Jesus!
I'm wary of it getting into that gamification thing of "reading goals" and all that self-help bollocks, but I think you can learn a lot from challenging art.
Some of the alt-right lot are into that whole warrior-philosopher thing and go on about bodybuilding and reading Marcus Aurelius etc. A good idea corrupted by their horrible ideology.
What has peaked?You think we need it now? Feels like it's peaked for a while to me. But no idea what's next or what's needed.
Yeah, I do. I think we're floundering partly due to a lack of serious thought and engagement with anything challenging.
in other words, can you expect much advancement if the following generations haven't caught up to the previous ones? would science have advanced if most people were taught that newton was basically a con artist, and that f=ma was "the emperor's new clothes"?can we have another avant garde when a lot of great 20th century stuff still isn't widely accepted? not that art needs to be popular to be culturally important, but what about when the avant garde of 70 years ago is still too avant garde for most people? (thinking of my unpopular electroacoustic thread here for example)