This reminds me of Leonard Bernstein‘s comments about the role of metaphor being at the heart of music and poetry: Repetition, as the most basic structural principle of art, gets subjected to variation and transformation, thus kickstarting the metaphorical process of thought, „midway between the unintelligible and the commonplace“ (Arist…
This reminds me of Leonard Bernstein‘s comments about the role of metaphor being at the heart of music and poetry: Repetition, as the most basic structural principle of art, gets subjected to variation and transformation, thus kickstarting the metaphorical process of thought, „midway between the unintelligible and the commonplace“ (Aristotle). Metaphors teach us to think in alternatives, to break free from our acquired taste and engage actively with what‘s ahead of us – whatever that may be: a piece of art, an impression of our senses, a person even.
The flattened systems of our time actively work against this process. What‘s the result? Pure, mindless repetition, that can only run its course for so long. Which is why we see these systems fail in such different fields almost simultaneously.
This reminds me of Leonard Bernstein‘s comments about the role of metaphor being at the heart of music and poetry: Repetition, as the most basic structural principle of art, gets subjected to variation and transformation, thus kickstarting the metaphorical process of thought, „midway between the unintelligible and the commonplace“ (Aristotle). Metaphors teach us to think in alternatives, to break free from our acquired taste and engage actively with what‘s ahead of us – whatever that may be: a piece of art, an impression of our senses, a person even.
The flattened systems of our time actively work against this process. What‘s the result? Pure, mindless repetition, that can only run its course for so long. Which is why we see these systems fail in such different fields almost simultaneously.