What is this about? IMHO Virginia Postrel wouldn't know a creative
thought if it bit her on the cheek. How can such doctrinaire rhetoric be
practical? It is all left or right. Do I have to choose between Stever,
Ginny and Ayn or Karl, Mao and whomever? Is there no balance in this
world?
Anyone suffering from an artistic poverty? Is not repose necessary for
chaos to have meaning? Otherwise chaos becomes repose. Typical late 19th
and early 20th century romanticism?
When libraries are truly digitized and a good search engine is installed
most of this stuff will be exposed for the derivative writing that it is.
They use words like "creativity" and "seminal" like popcorn is sold at the
movies. What I find annoying is the concept of "enemies" of the future or
as Frank and Cook called it a "Winner Take All Society." Does it take an
athlete or an artist to realize that all the world is neither a game or a
stage?
If you need an enemy to motivate you then your work has no meaning for
itself. How can you have the motivation to complete the really hard tasks
if your motivation is simple competition?
What scares the hell out of me is how this all seems to recycle just
before a depression.
REH
P.S. in the theater we call stasis and dynamism conflict and resolution.
Without both you have no dramatic impetus. In music it is called upbeat
and downbeat harmonies and is purely relative to the level of complexity
in repose. Ideas as old as music and theater itself. Why not study it
before you write a book and sell an old idea repackaged imperfectly.
Without conflict and repose you have "insanity" or as the word means a
"lack of balance."
Mike Thomas wrote:
> Has anyone read The Future & Its Enemies by Virginia Postrell?
>
> I'm interested what the subscribers of this list think of these stasis and
> dynamist labels she uses. Stasis don't want the world to change & Dynamist
> support an evolving future even though we don't know what that may be. I
> may be spelling Stasis incorrectly.
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