02-26-2019, 03:51 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-26-2019, 04:06 PM by Eric the Green.)
(02-26-2019, 02:55 PM)David Horn Wrote:(02-25-2019, 11:38 AM)Tim Randal Walker Wrote: I have come to lower my expectations. Now I hope to find material that is fairly good. (Note the qualifier fairly).
That is minimum level of quality for material worth passing on to future generations.
Really high quality is now reserved for the 1%, and even then, the best is still reserved for a small fraction of them. I had the pleasure (?) of browsing in a very upscale car dealership about a year ago. There was nothing so gauche as a price sticker anywhere, but I know enough about cars to be certain that nothing cost less than $250,000. Was the quality there? Absolutely! Was it my quality to enjoy? Of course not -- unless being a voyeur can be considered enjoyment.
Cars are not culture. The question is only can we open to what is available to us, as I described above? It is so vast, so rich. It is available to each and every one of us. We all have access to libraries, the internet, television and radio, netflix and multi-media, galleries, schools, travel; we can see and be inspired by it all. We have access to human potential classes and gurus, to spiritual literature, to any kind of teacher you want. All the sciences, all the learning is available to us. We can experience it, and we can contribute to it too.
In the sixties, the Beatles inspired countless thousands to form bands. Just regular young people like us. By 1966 these bands were everywhere, and they were inspired and opened by the awakening. It was a mini-renaissance. This can happen again at any time, in any field. We can all contribute to the new renaissance today. Out of this culture, some great artists will arise. They come out of the whole field of creative talent and tradition, not out of nowhere.
I've been feeling it since 1966, might be over now, but I feel it still!
I'm so happy when a song like this comes along. Like this one below came along ....