tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268985416439660021.post6313023671345799993..comments2023-07-18T03:44:33.021-07:00Comments on The Bit Maelstrom: Manic Monday Apocalypso: Dow Jones Drops Below 10000 Markblakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05430444326700437630noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268985416439660021.post-22845655066154767272008-10-10T22:47:00.000-07:002008-10-10T22:47:00.000-07:00Zappa was smart and meta- to boot.I remember that ...Zappa was smart and meta- to boot.<BR/><BR/>I remember that interview. But the nostalgia thing hasn't really come to pass, i.e., if it were true we'd be getting nostalgic for 2005 about now.<BR/><BR/>(As opposed to nostalgic for anything--anything at all!)blakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05430444326700437630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268985416439660021.post-70875346292095395562008-10-10T21:52:00.000-07:002008-10-10T21:52:00.000-07:00Zappa said:"...I've also talked about the End of t...Zappa said:<BR/><BR/>"<I>...I've also talked about the End of the World being a question of whether it's going to be by fire, ice, paperwork, or nostalgia. And there's a good chance that it's going to be nostalgia because the distance between the event and the nostalgia for the even has gotten shorter and shorter and shorter with each nostalgia cycle. So, projecting into the future, you could get to a point where you would take a step and be so nostalgic for that point where you would take a step and be so nostalgic for that step you just took that you would literally freeze in your tracks to experience the nostalgize of the last step, or the last word, or your last whatever. The world just comes to a halt - remembering.</I>"<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://home.online.no/~corneliu/Part06.html" REL="nofollow">(pulled from this 1988 interview)</A><BR/><BR/>You might find this bit from the same interview interesting (and prescient):<BR/><BR/>"<I>I don't know whether anybody truly wants to be interested in a campaign for two years, and I think that's one of the reasons why they run them for two years. Because they want to numb the electorate. They want to keep the voter turn-out low. If you keep the voter turn-out low, then you realize that the only people who have managed to stay interested long enough have to be weird. The average guy, who just wants to exercise his democratic right to vote, he's so turned off by the whole thing. He's seen these guys over and over, he's heard the lies, he's looked at it and just gone "Yuck!" And now it's not a privilege to vote. It's a horrible obligation and they don't even want to know about it. And especially when you tell them that the election's already over, then why should they bother? Why should they leave their job or go, especially on the East Coast when it's cold, to someplace in November to pull a handle or poke a hole in a piece of paper? Who cares? The election's over. They want you to believe that.</I>"XWLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13646729965929680256noreply@blogger.com