“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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Sterling Morrison, quoted in Rob Sheffield's Beatles book I'm guessing the VU hated the Mothers ever since that period when the latt... -
"When I first saw Tarantino's 'Pulp Fiction' , I turned to my wife during the screening & said, “Everything I have d...
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The preservation of music in records reminds one of canned food. —Theodor W. Adorno
This reminds me of Francis Fukuyama:
ReplyDelete"The End of History will be a very sad time, the struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's lives for a purely abstract goal. The worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring courage, imagination and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands. In the post historical period, there will be neither art nor philosophy, just the perpetual caretaking of the Museum of human history"
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.