A philosophical thread for the frontroom.

[Csargo]

I'm sad this thread is dead.

[drone]

I'm sad this thread is dead.

Is it dead? Or are we just not perceiving it's life?

[The Stranger]

Is it dead? Or are we just not perceiving it's life?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYv1HXP2oTI

turn the sound of and watch this.

[drone]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYv1HXP2oTI

turn the sound of and watch this.

[Tsar Alexsandr]

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!

[A Nerd]

Hello Tsar! I recall you from the tea house. Speak you mind, just try not to confuse me too much! At least as far as my personal reading and interpretation of your posts go.



This thread seems to have been ressurrected. In a different form, but ressurrected none the less.

[Drunk Clown]

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.

[Montmorency]

reaching back for what's good

That isn't evolution.

[Ibrahim]

One might argue that existence itself is simply the art of reaching back for what's good, and applying it to the future. Everything from evolution to your memory work that way.

Coincidence, or grand design!?

I would not call the repeated tendency of overspecializing organisms to specific environmental niches such a thing (you could argue that is being reached back, especially as it is a consistent theme IMHO). while I get you aren't talking about biological evo here, I suspect this example is sufficient.