[Ready Player One] - next Prophet generation speculation?

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(07-23-2017, 07:45 AM)Lemanic Wrote: So as a guy who loves our work here, I got very moved by this trailer.


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Would this be the next Prophet generation in action?

Unlikely. From the outlook of the movie being presented by the trailer it appears to be liner in out look. As someone who has some understanding of S&H theory you should understand that history and generations are cyclical. The current drive is to put everything online, to have computer generated art and music, to lose oneself in virtual reality because the real reality is unacceptable, depressing, or whatever.

As such, in the 2T we should expect the new prophets to completely reject that.

(07-23-2017, 09:56 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: has or never gets. Here's a response by someone who will be a very old idealist  (age 90 or so) at the time depicted:

I expect the next Idealist generation to rebel against the insipid culture of the High, part of which will be the grossly-unrealistic, and even fraudulent "virtual reality". This generation may prefer the formalism of computer-generated art and the insipid unreality of virtual reality. Unlike Boomers who became the market for this:



they will relish acoustic treatments.

If I am any indication, many will rediscover classical music as an alternative to the commercial schlock that overwhelms a society in the  High and that emerges as fads in the Awakening. Although the technology of the LP record was essential for making very long works of music listenable on the gramophone, it was Boomers who made such masters as Bruckner and Mahler household names instead of the perceived 'psychotic freaks who wrote music for neurotics' and expanded the market for opera. Opera in America used to have a loyal audience in America of Italian-Americans but relatively few others. That loyal audience has expanded.

Boomers also became an audience for authentic performance of early instruments and early practice:



OK, so long pieces of classical music still require a long attention span, a trait that one either has or never gets.

It could be a trend that seems either fussy, primitive, or anachronistic. But note well: a love for the archaic has always been a sign of intelligent sophistication.

All of those are possible. However, I think the arts and music will be less important to the new prophets as opposed to political and religious ideologies and philosophies. They will be the first generation in several saecula to be totally immersed in a Mega-Crisis.