Jack Pribek

I had a thought today: the record business started roughly 100 years ago. It ended (for practical purposes) around 25 years ago.
So, the record business has already been gone for a third of the time it was viable.

It was such a huge part of culture, but only for a blink of an eye.

Now this: the video game business has been around roughly 50 years already…2/3 the time of the record biz.

Video games have a huge impact on modern culture and they will continue to.

The video game industry will last far longer than the record business. I just realized that.

I’m fascinated by Oswald Spengler’s idea that civilization occurs after the zenith of a culture.

Civilization is somewhere on the back 9.

Everyone thinks their weather is THE weather.

Every place I’ve ever lived and most places I’ve visited experience quirky weather events and when they happen, somebody inevitably says “Welcome to (fill in the blank)”.

Today, Beka used the phrase “Dogwood Winter”. It’s a new one on me. A good fit though; yesterday, the dogwoods started showing their first blooms and today…

There’s a phrase that my digital native son uses; “lost media”. It’s daunting to think about all of the artwork; paintings, symphonies, books etc. that have disappeared in to the nothingness. Great works by unknowns.

How about the notion that every single performance by a virtuoso musician, that did not occur within the last 120 years or so, and hence wasn’t recorded, does not exist.

I have a theory that the finest thinkers alive right now are unknowns. Same with artists of all stripe. There is just so much stuff that goes under the radar. However, in this age, the media need not ever be lost.

It may be a thousand years until some random people stumble on to the greatest minds of your generation.

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true artand science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonderand stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”

– Albert Einstein

Regardless of technology and science the mystical will always be.