[atlantaprog] Re: Stumbled across this essay...

Fatalistic yes, but I don't detect the nostalgia.

To the extent that he seems to think that the way forward lies in going back to the past, maybe he's "nostalgic" (or just unwittingly conservative). More to the point, he doesn't seem to see anything of value in the last thirty years of music-making. I suppose that's understandable, since what's worth using is so often put in the service of mediocrity at best. But I think that's a problem worth solving. J.R.R. Tolkien once wrote of "the perception of damaged good in the corrupt", and I think that's a skill that we as a society have allowed to decline.

Other related posts: