I just watched the last 24:38 of Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey
set to the soundtrack of Pink Floyd's Echoes. I had downloaded it from Google Video. It made me realize that we are the last generation with imagination. We wanted to expand our minds, which we did through innovative and expansive music, literature, visual arts, and psychotropic drugs. Even experimentation with mind altering drugs was more exploration than it was for the physical effect of getting high. We explored inner space, seeking transcendental experiences and altered states of reality. We were excited by the latest books by our contemporary authors and by those timeless classics. We enlarged our world by seeking knowledge, through learning and experimentation, and with self-expression and creativity. We have traveled in time and thru time to find ourselves running out of time.
`But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked. `Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.' `How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice. `You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.' --- from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
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2 comments:
Hi Gary,
Time is what you make of it. Also, are you implying that my generation has done nothing more that regurgitated your era, our parents. I like to think that my generation has birth something other than media pack with critiscism and crappy music. Okay, Okay, I admit, the current stuff is awful, but when you take Hip Hop in its original form, it rocks and you have to think back to the eighties (i'm an eigthies baby) we churned a lot of real timeless pieces, from Cameo to Hall'n Oat, from Michael Jackson to Prince and I still can jam off some old Maddona. They had some very good lyrics. Also, Stevie Woner was still selling out when this 30-something was coming up. Perhaps you can do a post on Music collections...the students vs. the teachers...you'd be surprise what quality surfaces. ;-)
Thanks for the response. The generation argument is specious at best. Probably judged most honestly by those historians of the future 50 to 100 years from now. But the Sixties remain a very energetic, creative decade like the Roaring Twenties. Both decades saw risk taking non-conformist behavior.
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