Rough Music
The degree of damage, paraphernalia paraded, charges levelled, happy denouement were parochially variable – the one common ingredient was extreme commotion – the noise, the music, was the thing.
Schopenhauer
• The man born with natural talent can never compete with cringing mediocrity; he sees the inferiority of those above him and becomes shy and refractory. As Juvenal said, ‘It is difficult to rise if your poverty is greater than your talent.’
Herbert Marcuse
The incessant dynamic of technical progress has become permeated with political content and the Logos of technics has been converted into the Logos of continued servitude.