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World Still Ending
Nov. 27th, 2011 03:57 pmHaven't posted in a while, so here are a few quick flashes:
--The world is still ending, thanks to Europe. Or at least there's a piece by someone named Ed Harrison explaining why an Italian default could lead to a depression:
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/11/italian-default-scenarios.html
Also, Paul Krugman, whose ideas I don't understand but who has ideas that I suspect exist, says that the people who are busy not doing what is needed to correct the situation in Europe (basically, everything immediate depends on the European Central Bank unconditionally guaranteeing to buy Italian bonds if the rates go too high, and the rates have gone too high, and the ECB insists it won't act) do not have ideas that exist. It isn't that he disagrees with their ideas. He doesn't think these people actually have ideas. They prefer to click their heels and make wishes.
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/26/mysterious-europe
--I'm actually thinking not only about K-pop and world's end, but about how to get people to help me take my ideas further. Some time ago — 1989 or so — I realized that it was quite possible that my ideas would die with me. So now that I'm several years closer to death (I assume I have about thirty years to go, minus a world ending or two), I've decided that I need to make this a great tragedy by making the ideas really good. That'll show you. Anyhow, there are three or four things I'm moving to the front burner: (1) I'm rethinking social class to take account of the fact that the freaks are a social class and that together with nonfreaks they form social systems; (2) I once said that We (the musical marginal intelligentsia that I am sort of part of) are analogous to PBS; this confused everybody and it's still the only idea going that explains what went wrong with rock and punk and indie; my idea is problematic and half-baked but is a zillion time better than anyone else's I've seen on related subjects so it's now also up on the front burner (to mix metaphors slightly); (3) hallway-classroom split is actually a quite strong idea of mine but I'm wondering if I can use it to explain why music criticism sucks; (4) something else that I can't think of at the moment. In any event I promise to post more thoroughly on these subjects sometime in the next 30 years, or at least send you an email.
--Also, damn, I need to post something about the T-ara video. And review the track for Jukebox.
--The world is still ending, thanks to Europe. Or at least there's a piece by someone named Ed Harrison explaining why an Italian default could lead to a depression:
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/11/italian-default-scenarios.html
Also, Paul Krugman, whose ideas I don't understand but who has ideas that I suspect exist, says that the people who are busy not doing what is needed to correct the situation in Europe (basically, everything immediate depends on the European Central Bank unconditionally guaranteeing to buy Italian bonds if the rates go too high, and the rates have gone too high, and the ECB insists it won't act) do not have ideas that exist. It isn't that he disagrees with their ideas. He doesn't think these people actually have ideas. They prefer to click their heels and make wishes.
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/26/mysterious-europe
--I'm actually thinking not only about K-pop and world's end, but about how to get people to help me take my ideas further. Some time ago — 1989 or so — I realized that it was quite possible that my ideas would die with me. So now that I'm several years closer to death (I assume I have about thirty years to go, minus a world ending or two), I've decided that I need to make this a great tragedy by making the ideas really good. That'll show you. Anyhow, there are three or four things I'm moving to the front burner: (1) I'm rethinking social class to take account of the fact that the freaks are a social class and that together with nonfreaks they form social systems; (2) I once said that We (the musical marginal intelligentsia that I am sort of part of) are analogous to PBS; this confused everybody and it's still the only idea going that explains what went wrong with rock and punk and indie; my idea is problematic and half-baked but is a zillion time better than anyone else's I've seen on related subjects so it's now also up on the front burner (to mix metaphors slightly); (3) hallway-classroom split is actually a quite strong idea of mine but I'm wondering if I can use it to explain why music criticism sucks; (4) something else that I can't think of at the moment. In any event I promise to post more thoroughly on these subjects sometime in the next 30 years, or at least send you an email.
--Also, damn, I need to post something about the T-ara video. And review the track for Jukebox.
