"Every generation gets to pick and choose what they want from the generations that came before them with the same arrogance and ego-driven self-importance that the previous generations had when they picked the bones of the ones before them." That’s Bob Dylan noting a pattern. I wouldn’t want to attribute arrogance or ego-driven self-importance to anyone but myself. But yes, we get to choose our ancestors, borrow their eloquence, and make the best we can of what they leave behind by making it our own. We get to copy correctly. That’s what we do when we take things to heart in the positive sense. We receive someone else’s witness and make it our own. We copy correctly.
I am 100% here for that particular Human League tune. I even had the 45 of it at a time when almost nobody bought 45’s. It sounds terribly dated now, but what a great nostalgic rush I get from hearing it.
I should clarify: the song is still great--the instrumentation is dated (particularly the synths). But by the same token, indelibly a product of its era!
Man, I love how your writing invites me into a conversation with my own thoughts - past and present - and the voices of people who've gone before us. If I'm paying close attention I sometimes even recognize the signs along the path and choose more wisely than I might have.
I am 100% here for that particular Human League tune. I even had the 45 of it at a time when almost nobody bought 45’s. It sounds terribly dated now, but what a great nostalgic rush I get from hearing it.
I find it persuasive.
I should clarify: the song is still great--the instrumentation is dated (particularly the synths). But by the same token, indelibly a product of its era!
Man, I love how your writing invites me into a conversation with my own thoughts - past and present - and the voices of people who've gone before us. If I'm paying close attention I sometimes even recognize the signs along the path and choose more wisely than I might have.
Is that Cormac McCarthy, by the way?
Thank you. It is.