> whatever happened to the future? > did it become an outdated concept?
sign of the times.. new ideas and concepts always question and destabilize your way of thinking, feeling, reacting, living. and there's a great potential of failure. you need some "spare" energy to cope with that. old stuff is reassuring because it's mostly already integrated in historic narrations. it's known, at least peripherically or semi-conciously. you don't have to think about it, make up your mind about it, understand it. it's just there, it has a "natural" feel to it. plus it it has additional nostalgic / sentimental potential futurism needs optimism, today people are scared, fear takes up a lot of energy.. but isn't this explicit historism in dance music new in it self? and how to sample future stuff? noticed how some of the current car design aestehtics tend to a bulkyness and massiveness that suggests some kind of (symbolic) protection? some bmws, daimlers etc look like tanks.. audis are the worst
