6 comments

  • ggm 6 hours ago ago

    Is this just a posh version of Millinarianism? I don't think so but I ask "why stop at 1800" and look at 1900 and 1700 and 1600 thinking there's signals every 100 years of a bit of Apple Cart upsetting.

    Girls swooning over Beethoven and the fortepiano maestro tour europe.

    • coldtea 5 hours ago ago

      Because the analogy he makes is with Romanticism, a specific trend/movement, for which 1800 is roughly a good reference point, whereas 1600 is not.

      • ggm 5 hours ago ago

        And my point is that it's a label on a cyclical trend. But sure, he wanted to reason about romanticism specifically. He cuts off very early in the new century, and the romanticism presaged a 50year cycle of revolution and revolt against the congress of Vienna. The tide swung back and forth.

        • coldtea 4 hours ago ago

          >And my point is that it's a label on a cyclical trend

          Not so sure about that. Romanticism isn't related to Millinarianism conceptually or otherwise. The former was a re-adoption of a hollistic medieval stance on life and nature.

          If you mean "some cultural things change every now and then, so a trend changing is nothing new", maybe, but it's a much smaller claim than that we see a rebirt of Romanticism specifically.

        • defrost 5 hours ago ago

          I'm not convinced Beethoven had contemporary groupies tossing him their muffs.

          Liszt, however ...

          * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisztomania

          * (NSFW?) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peJ_ncxXung

  • vlian2088 7 hours ago ago

    >Nov 18, 2023

    >Imagine people deciding that the good life starts with NOT learning how to code.

    you monkey pawed it.