Excuse me for getting all cosmic on you, but it's Easter and I'm granting myself a bit of well-earned perspective.
Been mulling over ideas like "What is Retro?", "Where is the future?", and "When was the past?", and I've found myself face-to-face with ideas I once held when I was maybe more ENLIGHTENED than I am now.
I theorised then that the true timeline, as opposed to the mysterious illusory one which makes up the progression of our day-to-day lives is the line which stretches between UNKNOWING and ENLIGHTENMENT. Unknowing here is the true past, and enlightenment is the true future. I can't have been the first person to have thought this.
This schema works well with regards to the genealogy of music. Ground-breaking influential music (and I wouldn't say anyone has a handle on this, though some prophets fare better than others with their prognostoces) is always truly ENLIGHTENED. As such, old or "Retro" music can be more current or "Futuristic" than brand-spanking new music.
Which might be another way of saying I really ought to get out more often.
Posted by Woebot at April 18, 2003 08:56 PM