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Holden Karnofsky • Where's Today's Beethoven?
The generation gap was expansive: parents and their children were living with two very different senses of the present. For parents, social norms and participation in production and reproduction were at the rate of a lifetime. You were free to do what you wanted with your lifetime, but you needed to be loyal to the commitments you made for this lif
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I’m not looking to rewind the clock back to a time before we all had email and cellphones. What I want is to be inspired by the last generation that made a new life-world—the postwar American abstract expressionist painters, jazz musicians, and writers and poets who created an alternate American modernism that directly challenged the ascendant Comm... See more
Alana Newhouse • Everything Is Broken
The old story was populated by such themes as “the golden years,” “life of leisure,” a life without the pressure of time clocks or the demands of work.