The Death of Cool
What if there’s nothing we can do,
and we’re just stuck in a creatively stagnant era? Well, stagnation can lead to explosive change. The Renaissance in Northern Europe came after war, the Black Death, and religious turmoil. The Harlem Renaissance of the ‘20s and ‘30s sprang out of segregation and poverty. The counterculture movement of the ‘60s erup
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Two attitudes around music (/life):
Lazy vs. driven;
Ironic vs. romantic;
Cool vs. awkward;
Nihilistic vs. mythic;