“What most of us have to fear for the future is not that something terrible is going to happen, but rather that nothing is going to happen. That we may live in a boring world, in an eventless world where nothing happens.”
- JG Ballard
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There is something so delicious, so sensually pleasing, when you come across a thinker whose ideas fit – not your own ideas, but impulses th... -
"Sometimes my contribution [as a record producer] might have been as minimal as just saying, 'Shall we stop for a few minutes?... ...
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Someone recentl y asked Greil Marcus why "sixties and seventies rock crits hate prog so much?" "Why do people hate prog roc...
This reminds me of Francis Fukuyama:
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Perhaps the worst of all possible worlds is that terrible things happen in a boring way (or boring things happen in a terrible way). An evil that is banal and tedious.