Is there a lack of refinement in the 21st century?

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It sometimes seems boorishness is the proverbial house on the hill for the people of this era. Surely in centuries to come, there can be no retort to those whose palettes select only the finest of 21st century cultural commodities for consumption.

There is one thing certain, we will always strive to live and work, together in co-operation and unity, with a dignity, and a will to live, yes we make mistakes but we LEARN FROM THEM AND THAT, that is what makes us stronger.

However can we really be sure some of the conspicuous, downright vulgar consumption of the 21st century is not simply a case of pigs revelling in swill?

― Jean-Luc (Jean-Luc), Sunday, 9 May 2004 21:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Shut your fuckin' gob.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 9 May 2004 21:11 (twenty-one years ago)

A gaping lack of refinement.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 9 May 2004 21:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Curt1ss, tell me, are you familiar with the old French proverb "La Femme D'Henri" or "Mr Henry's Wife"?

― Jean-Luc (Jean-Luc), Sunday, 9 May 2004 21:17 (twenty-one years ago)

"every age features it's own depths and heights. problems are solved only to be replaced by new ones."
- Mrs Miggins, yesterday

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 9 May 2004 21:22 (twenty-one years ago)

MORRISSEY HAS FOUND US!

― de, Sunday, 9 May 2004 21:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Morrisey, a character with the swagger of an able seaman.

When in the British navy of old, a young man would have to reach the age of 25 before he was granted the title of "High Bastion". In those days they would test a man for courage, self respect, for how he measured up against his bedfellow. It was not simply a matter of rutting at the cultural trough.

― Jean-Luc (Jean-Luc), Sunday, 9 May 2004 21:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Whatever happened to the rite of passage?

― Stuart (Stuart), Sunday, 9 May 2004 21:31 (twenty-one years ago)

One must wonder, enson.

― Jean-Luc (Jean-Luc), Sunday, 9 May 2004 21:31 (twenty-one years ago)

uh to thread

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 9 May 2004 21:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Jean-Luc, you need to be here:

http://ilx.wh3rd.net/newquestions.php?board=13

Now go away.

― ..., Sunday, 9 May 2004 21:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks a lot, Jean-Luc. I'm allergic to quasi-intellectualism, and now you've made me break out in a bloody great rash.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 9 May 2004 22:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Modern music is largely about atonal soundscapes which create abstract structures beneath the sometimes complex sounds. Autechre has in my opinion moved closer to that territory closer to the likes of modern experimental composers like Stockhausen or John Cage. If one is to attack experimental music because it isn't appealing then one would be better off listening to the Beatles or even Mozart which is waste deep in tonal melodies. If not don't bitch about absract sound music because we live in a postmodern world were the truth has become abstract so don't expect music to fall short of that either, because if you do your stupid and conservative and you have no valid knowledge on which to judge experimental electronic music.
-- JOnjjOnnjoN (Eric Prost@hotmail-msn.com), May 26th, 2002.

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Dag. Consider my mind blown.
-- adam (hexenductio...), May 26th, 2002.

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The truth has become abstract? What was I doing when that happened, watching Perry Mason reruns or something? I wish people would at least call me when these major paradigm shifts happen, it sucks to feel out of the loop.
-- John Darnielle (edito...), May 26th, 2002.

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JOnjjOnnjoN is my new god
-- mark s (mar...), May 26th, 2002.

― Clarke B. (Clarke B.), Monday, 10 May 2004 02:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Goddamn, "waste deep in tonal melodies" is the BEST TYPO EVER.

― Clarke B. (Clarke B.), Monday, 10 May 2004 02:08 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

classic material

― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 01:13 (nineteen years ago)

uh to thread

ok.
http://static.flickr.com/52/139429699_e542286576.jpg

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 01:20 (nineteen years ago)

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