This was an idea that also was reflected around the world by others, perhaps in different form. The airspeed races, the designs of stream form objects reflecting speed, the birth of jazz, the shucking of traditional behavior. And all reborn again in the 1960s. I know I felt some of this myself - the disdain for Ruskin's delight of a decaying Venice when it was a banking and trade powerhouse at its peak like Hong Kong. I don't think there was a problem with Futurism, but rather how to get there with fascism. After all, aren't Schumpeter's economic ideas of "creative destruction' just Futurism in different clothing? Are not "conservatives" the enemies of change and hence of Futurism?
Brad, what your take on the Futurist and his grandmaster, just a harbinger what was to come WW1 and eventually WW2 or just male puberterian fantasies, violent ones?
Louis : [Louis, as the possessed Keymaster Vinz Clortho, runs out of Central Park, scaring a married couple] I am the Keymaster! The Destructor is coming. Gozer the Traveler, the Destroyer.
[Louis pants and sniffs, then notices a horse carriage; horse neighs]
Louis : Gatekeeper.
[Walk over towards the horse]
Louis : I am Vinz, Vinz Clortho, Keymaster of Gozer. Volguus Zildrohar, Lord of the Sebouillia. Are you the Gatekeeper?
Coachman : Hey, he pulls the wagon, I made the deals. You want a ride?
[The possessed Louis growls at the coachman with his red-glowing eyes]
Louis : [to the horse] Wait for the sign. Then our prisoners will be released.
[Runs amok, scaring bystanders; yelling]
Louis : You will perish in flame, you and all your kind! Gatekeeper!
Articles like this is why I subscribe to Grasping Reality. Where else are you going to find something this bizarre that no one has ever heard of from the early 1900s? I had no idea that there were Italians who despise history and museums. Also I assume the original was written in Italian. If so, this is an amazingly good translation!
"When we are forty let younger and stronger men than we throw us in the waste paper basket like useless manuscripts!"
So easy to say when you are not yet 30, so easy to repudiate when you are over 40. Jim Morrison said (paraphrase from memory) "I don't know what's gonna happen man, but I'll tell you this: I just wanna get my kicks in before this whole shithouse goes up in flames." But the shithouse didn't go up in flames quite as soon as he expected, did it?
wow, quite the collection for a Saturday morning... was it all really like that? Speed and destruction, overturning the old and building a new world?
Looking back from the future the delusion is terribly saddening..
This was an idea that also was reflected around the world by others, perhaps in different form. The airspeed races, the designs of stream form objects reflecting speed, the birth of jazz, the shucking of traditional behavior. And all reborn again in the 1960s. I know I felt some of this myself - the disdain for Ruskin's delight of a decaying Venice when it was a banking and trade powerhouse at its peak like Hong Kong. I don't think there was a problem with Futurism, but rather how to get there with fascism. After all, aren't Schumpeter's economic ideas of "creative destruction' just Futurism in different clothing? Are not "conservatives" the enemies of change and hence of Futurism?
Brad, what your take on the Futurist and his grandmaster, just a harbinger what was to come WW1 and eventually WW2 or just male puberterian fantasies, violent ones?
Why not both?
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Reminds me of nothing so much as:
Louis : [Louis, as the possessed Keymaster Vinz Clortho, runs out of Central Park, scaring a married couple] I am the Keymaster! The Destructor is coming. Gozer the Traveler, the Destroyer.
[Louis pants and sniffs, then notices a horse carriage; horse neighs]
Louis : Gatekeeper.
[Walk over towards the horse]
Louis : I am Vinz, Vinz Clortho, Keymaster of Gozer. Volguus Zildrohar, Lord of the Sebouillia. Are you the Gatekeeper?
Coachman : Hey, he pulls the wagon, I made the deals. You want a ride?
[The possessed Louis growls at the coachman with his red-glowing eyes]
Louis : [to the horse] Wait for the sign. Then our prisoners will be released.
[Runs amok, scaring bystanders; yelling]
Louis : You will perish in flame, you and all your kind! Gatekeeper!
Coachman : What an asshole.
Articles like this is why I subscribe to Grasping Reality. Where else are you going to find something this bizarre that no one has ever heard of from the early 1900s? I had no idea that there were Italians who despise history and museums. Also I assume the original was written in Italian. If so, this is an amazingly good translation!
"When we are forty let younger and stronger men than we throw us in the waste paper basket like useless manuscripts!"
So easy to say when you are not yet 30, so easy to repudiate when you are over 40. Jim Morrison said (paraphrase from memory) "I don't know what's gonna happen man, but I'll tell you this: I just wanna get my kicks in before this whole shithouse goes up in flames." But the shithouse didn't go up in flames quite as soon as he expected, did it?