Quote Originally Posted by Tsar Alexsandr View Post
I would think that the old often does reappear. What was will be again. For instance, now that technology has advanced we have digital tools that replace old manual processes and tools. For me a good example would be photography. Although I can take three hundred pictures in a day, easily, I still want to use old cameras and cameras I have built myself that need an hour of exposure to take a single picture. With the advent of the newest and greatest photo technology has come the demand for old cameras and film. There are entire groups of people dedicated to traditional film, and not just that but people who specifically dedicate themselves to tin-types, pinhole cameras, and wonderfully built Soviet cameras full of what we might call "defects".

My point is, if people are using tools and practices that are more than one hundred years old, a demand and desire for the past exists. In niches and small groups perhaps, but it very well could give way to a popular trend. Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Transcendentalists share parallels with Asian scholars, Tao and Zen. And later, the Beatnik's of the 1950's would be influenced by the Transcendentalists. Ginsberg references Walt Whitman and his "Leaves of Grass" often, citing it as an important source of inspiration prior to becoming famous himself.

Their shared belief was one of equality, meditation, self-discovery, and "Self-Reliance" if you will. I do believe that these concepts can and will return, as they have often appeared and re-appeared in the course of history.

I'm sorry if I have railed pointlessly, but this is the proper place to do so no?

Just sharing my thoughts. Adieu gentlemen!
Elements of the past return, though not exactly the same. Be it the reason or something completely different.