What does your mom go for? Utilitarian art? I don't think so...
I really think it's largely a power issue, and modernity is just extra good at making us powerless, or maybe better said, not providing the, er, old-fashioned means of anesthetizing that feeling. That might not the best response either, but I'm supposed to be thinking about the Very Important Issue of metrical structure. (sarcasm) I will find what's important and strip the bullshit away, goddamn it. And there is so much bullshit. I'm pretty sure my thesis is more like, "Why Phonology is a Pointless Endeavor" with a touch of, "How Linguists Waste their Lives." Uh, sorry, unrelated. I think there is something to its being modern (at least in a broad sense, 'cause this is basically what Nietzsche was writing about, about which I will do my damndest to say no more than that...except that it's no coincidence we're talking about Kafka at the same time here), but it is by no means a new problem--more like an old problem in new terms. Like, it's the same problem that gave us a need for religion in the first place. And I don't mean that we feel the loss of that--how can we? We feel the same loss.
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Date: 2009-01-11 07:43 am (UTC)I really think it's largely a power issue, and modernity is just extra good at making us powerless, or maybe better said, not providing the, er, old-fashioned means of anesthetizing that feeling. That might not the best response either, but I'm supposed to be thinking about the Very Important Issue of metrical structure. (sarcasm) I will find what's important and strip the bullshit away, goddamn it. And there is so much bullshit. I'm pretty sure my thesis is more like, "Why Phonology is a Pointless Endeavor" with a touch of, "How Linguists Waste their Lives." Uh, sorry, unrelated. I think there is something to its being modern (at least in a broad sense, 'cause this is basically what Nietzsche was writing about, about which I will do my damndest to say no more than that...except that it's no coincidence we're talking about Kafka at the same time here), but it is by no means a new problem--more like an old problem in new terms. Like, it's the same problem that gave us a need for religion in the first place. And I don't mean that we feel the loss of that--how can we? We feel the same loss.