Photography, History and Whatever Else Strikes my Fancy.
Tearing things down, rejecting the past or trying to crawl back into it outright are no way to build anything new. What has happened has happened, you can't change it and you can't ignore it. You can't take something away without offering something better. These just aren't ways to capture people's imaginations en masse, not in any meaningful way. The only way to build something new and better is to found it solidly in what is past, then hide that foundation in brilliant new construction. It doesn't matter about the rest of the crap off to the sides. If the new thing is better the old things will die all on their own. Anything that is set up as a rejection or antithesis of something else is inherently dependent on what it is trying to tear down.
Oringinal post: http://mbarrick.livejournal.com/48089.html