Is it just me or is the 21st century....rather boring?

[Eric the Green]

(04-29-2020, 09:14 AM)Blazkovitz Wrote:

(04-28-2020, 05:07 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: My 11 year old daughter might disagree:  to her, the difference between a horse drawn carriage and an automobile may seem smaller than the difference between a wireline phone that could only carry voice and a modern smartphone.

A smartphone is a bad computer, bad telephone and bad camera put together in one device. Hardly a breakthrough in technology. I suspect they will go out of fashion.

Mickey123 Wrote:Soon enough, things will be very exciting, even more exciting than a global pandemic. The U.S. will be at war with China, or in the middle of a civil or revolutionary war, and excitement will be had by all.

Wow, so you think wars and mayhem are exciting? Something must be wrong with you For me, the sooner the 1T starts the better.

Except for the last sentence, I agree.

But, a revolution or a civil war could end up being "exciting" if it's the only way to bring about a newer world.

It's certainly a risky proposition though, with much boring mayhem involved. And we would probably be "fooled again"





Now, if a Beethoven, or a Peter Townshend and The Who, come along and make epic music out of it, that would be exciting!

Perhaps the backward phrasing of Beethoven's special magical up-and-down-the scale-moving passages in this piece linked here was not heard again in music until the synthesizer-rock passages in pieces like the above. To me, they symbolize the ongoing "reverberations" from the Awakenings I wrote about in the other posts I made. Will our current social moment eventually generate this level of inspiration?

Quote: (Steve Barrera)

I think all out war is an unlikely scenario, but a constitutional crisis in the U.S. with some milita violence is possible.

That's what I think will happen.