Wherefores and Whys
Music is a barometer of the present. The present is an epoch we should know. Knowledge is the burden of the receptive. Reception is what the exchange of music relies on. Reliance is based on retention. We mainly retain the postscript to every philosophical entry. We have entered an era that scoffs at its thinkers. Thought is our only reprieve from the perpetual prison of the aged. Music lives in perpetuity, weighted with democratizing impulses. And in pulsation we find freedoms, both physical and metaphysical. Meta is the sum of our minds. Music is the voice of that sum.
On the other hand, self-reliance is an Emersonian virtue. “Virtue” is the rough translation of the Attic Greek word “apetn” Plato discusses in The Meno. Finding Nemo was a good movie.
Rhymin’ and a schemin’, eh?
What we have here is Capt. Nemo showing the West the errors of it’s lustful and heedless materialism. Similarly, the materials of a bygone era–one obsessed with dominoes and star wars–is floating under the Golden Gate at the very moment this is being written, and warfare as the USS Horne knew it is sinking with her ship to the bottom of the crystal blue Hawaiian seas. The way I see it, it’s all a substitution: metal for coral, communism for oil.