i am tempted to agree with you, marcel. causality seems to have ceased to
exist as an existential phenomenon! i am so amazed at the lack of
repercussion, of effect, of echo. it is almost as if we lived in a medium
that is an environment no more: it lacks the properties that define an
environment: elasticity, plasticity, the ability to reverberate, to reflect,
to deflect. matter is not impenetrable anymore and solids don't project a
shadow. mind you, i am not discussing things postmodern but simply vacuum
here.
i kept thinking about my own question today: a world with a past that does
not include the beatles, for instance. i realized that all my conclusions
after this exercise in virtual history were tinged with the assumptions
arising from my nature as a inherently CAUSAL-thinking person. somewhere
along the development?/devolution?/stasis? of culture the cause/effect
relationship was lost and, what's more surprising, ''history'' seems to be
doing quite handsomely without it!
wallyK
p.s.: dadaism and other movements were reactions so they were part of causal
history. i'm not about to buy the 7 or 8 or 10 monochromatic canvasses
exhibited at the metropolitan museum in new york, but i can live with the
fact that they're hung there. they came after, and because of, something.
now the dinner ''love'' music example...well, give me 50 years to think
about it.
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Asunto: Re: meet the beatles!!!!! sjc (md)
Interesting question Wally. I can say by virtue of parental experience that
kids today are if anything totally unaffected by any of the music of the
60's
or Jonis generation. but it depends which group of kids. Theres a small
miniscule minority that appreciates music and its history and evolution of
which there are some.
