[Fmpro] a new world odor

[Fernando Rivas]

History has shown that enlightenment only comes after long periods of
intellectual enterprise.  Now as humanity moves away from the intellect,
allowing many functions of human intelligence to be carried on by computers
and technology, enlightenment seems less likely.  There will always be
intelligent people who will not be satisfied with all the unanswered
questions and unexplored territory but for the rest food, sex and shelter
and a bit of entertainment along with it is fine and sufficient.  The
problem for humanity is when those fat, pampered masses decide that
intelligence and enlightenment are no longer worthwhile or even desirable,
or when the darker chaotic forces in the human psyche dominate the scene.
Has this happened before? Several times.


On 1/27/08 7:43 PM, "bipcress at comcast.net" <bipcress at comcast.net> wrote:

> Ted, I can align myself with most of what you say. You mention "When music
> became an academic enterprise, a lot of what made music interesting left. What
> left was an immediacy to the culture. Some of the works produced by academic
> composers are very good but there are few who transcend the environment at the
> "school" they are teaching." Those words flow directly from one of my core
> points! Film composers can kick so much glorious ass because they have THE
> Stage on which to perform. Their ideas are ingested by millions of filmgoers
> all over the country, and these listeners won't even know if it's that good
> brain-medicine (advanced musical ideas) getting into their heads, or merely
> commercial fluff. The magic of it is that mere exposure to advanced fine art
> effects consciousness. Hitler, being evil but not stupid, knew this. One of
> his first tasks after coming into power was to come down hard on
> artists-as-intellectuals - can't have people getting their minds stimulated by
> dyn!
>  amic film scores. / When you say "Are we cultural morons? Probably. But out
> of that will come new directions." you completely lose me. How does ignorance
> produce enlightenment? I thought the enlightened spread enlightenment.
> Everything I've learned has come from either insight or from people smarter,
> wiser, or more gifted than me - not "morons".  - JohnB
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