tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16761020.post7621904067363705961..comments2023-10-20T21:52:36.752+05:30Comments on Cross Connections: Quote uncoatFarzana Verseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06891229615361937135noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16761020.post-46352759554981399702013-02-08T22:31:55.327+05:302013-02-08T22:31:55.327+05:30The only way anyone is going to keep up with you, ...The only way anyone is going to keep up with you, Farzana, is if you let them catch up. :)<br /><br />Which is, in my view (and half-serious kidding aside), what is oftentimes called for. There have always been avante garde -- prodigies, in their way. Invariably, their . . . well, "brilliance," draws a certain type of emulator like a moth to a flame . . .<br /><br />But it really isn't about moths and flames -- its about immature folk looking to bask in some reflected glory of another, imv, albeit for the most part ignorant of at what cost that apparent "brilliance" comes. Roman Polanski and his twelve year-old "fan" comes to mind . . .<br /><br />There's also Plato's parable of the cave, where one somehow managed to escape the mesmerizing play of shadows on the wall to emerge into the light, but was nevertheless compelled to return to persuade his/her fellows left behind to do likewise. On the one hand, we might suggest the prodigy only sought that they too might emerge into the light and expand their horizons; on the other hand, it might well be that, without his/her fellows, the light had swiftly lost it's charm.<br /><br />One wonders if there isn't some of that in play with the band, Pragaash . . .<br /><br />In terms of the more utilitarian, certainly the innovation of plumbing can be argued as a better way than a twice-daily trip to the well, bucket in hand. But neither are such innovations without their costs -- accumulated and/or swift (as in the case of Bhopal) . . .<br /><br />I'm not at all certain, Farzana, if much of what we call contemporary culture did not exist in the time of prophets and messiahs. Perhaps the difference lies only in manner and appearance?<br /><br />M. mstaabnoreply@blogger.com