"The result of an eclextic or perhaps even eclectic choice is, I believe, of greater detrimental consequence than the constraints of a lack of choice given youth in their education." When we have too many choices, we become petty and unable to appreciate depth.
when we know good music we can hear harmony and the subtleties of tuning and the pain of discordance.
"Pretty soon now you're gonna get older ... Time may change me ... But I can't trace time"
Bowie's angle unexpectedly helps me confront the fatuous "right side of history" slogan. Of course, we don't really get to decide where we'll stand in the judgments of historical discourse yet to come. The only constant is ch-ch-ch-change, and the "we just didn't know any better" defense with it.
There is no universal standard for the right side of history. No one enjoys this distinction unequivocally, and certainly not in perpetuity.
What effectively hasn't changed is "the right thing," civility, the olde Golden Rule. There is no quantum leap between doing the right thing back then and today, nor do I anticipate any in the future. May the right thing be always and forever immune to our consultations.
This is all to say that I love "Changes" because it means "Hunky Dory" is just getting started!
"The result of an eclextic or perhaps even eclectic choice is, I believe, of greater detrimental consequence than the constraints of a lack of choice given youth in their education." When we have too many choices, we become petty and unable to appreciate depth.
when we know good music we can hear harmony and the subtleties of tuning and the pain of discordance.
"The music that made me" -- very timely as I listen to Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring. Made me a long, long time ago in a church classroom on the piano. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwWL8Y-qsJg&list=RDFwWL8Y-qsJg&start_radio=1
"Pretty soon now you're gonna get older ... Time may change me ... But I can't trace time"
Bowie's angle unexpectedly helps me confront the fatuous "right side of history" slogan. Of course, we don't really get to decide where we'll stand in the judgments of historical discourse yet to come. The only constant is ch-ch-ch-change, and the "we just didn't know any better" defense with it.
There is no universal standard for the right side of history. No one enjoys this distinction unequivocally, and certainly not in perpetuity.
What effectively hasn't changed is "the right thing," civility, the olde Golden Rule. There is no quantum leap between doing the right thing back then and today, nor do I anticipate any in the future. May the right thing be always and forever immune to our consultations.
This is all to say that I love "Changes" because it means "Hunky Dory" is just getting started!