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i came across this quote, and it seems like one of the best responses to the really ugly nihilist strain of postmodernism that's never sat very well with me. the whole "there are no new ideas, so why should we bother to make art or organize, let's just do piles of coke instead" bullshit i never liked.
"For every fifty year old that says 'There's nothing new under the sun', or every thirty year old who says 'There's nothing new under the sun', there's some twenty year old who's experiencing it for the first time. The problem with 'There's nothing new under the sun' is that it only works if everyone is born and dies at the same time. We have this birth/death, life/birth, death/life thing going on all the time. So that means that somebody's just figuring it out.
Somebody, right now, is just about to get his or her heart broken for the first time. Somebody, right now, is just about to kiss somebody for the first time. Somebody, right now, is about to get his or her first kitten. This is new stuff. Somebody, about a month from now, is about to walk to school for the first time. Somebody, right now, is about to become a mother. That mother wants to hear a song about hope and joy for her, and the future of her child. She doesn't mind if it's been sung a million times before, but it needs to be a new song for her time and her perspective."
Tia Sillers
"For every fifty year old that says 'There's nothing new under the sun', or every thirty year old who says 'There's nothing new under the sun', there's some twenty year old who's experiencing it for the first time. The problem with 'There's nothing new under the sun' is that it only works if everyone is born and dies at the same time. We have this birth/death, life/birth, death/life thing going on all the time. So that means that somebody's just figuring it out.
Somebody, right now, is just about to get his or her heart broken for the first time. Somebody, right now, is just about to kiss somebody for the first time. Somebody, right now, is about to get his or her first kitten. This is new stuff. Somebody, about a month from now, is about to walk to school for the first time. Somebody, right now, is about to become a mother. That mother wants to hear a song about hope and joy for her, and the future of her child. She doesn't mind if it's been sung a million times before, but it needs to be a new song for her time and her perspective."
Tia Sillers