| The sublime, as recognized by Edmund Burke in the mid-18th century, is drawing its nourishment from terror and pain, rather than from the simply beautiful. an age-old idea, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. It can be found even in pain and horror - as awe rather than as pleasure. Decomposition is the sound of unrest, of nature and terror as a force, and of sequenced noise as a sure-fire capturer of revelation. close your eyes, swallow, and get to know true enlightenment. Epiphany: the book of revelations, as blindly believed in by so many of the world's devout Christians, will, due to this very belief among these herds of many, also be reverberated in the future. If enough people believe in an idea, material reality will also see the fulfillment of that idea. Epiphany: the sacred, as a concept, is a mode of thought existing in the world of ideas; the reality of the sublime. therefore, regarding sacred things as actually having an existence of their own makes sense. the abovementioned bible-related epiphany is an example of how ideas of the sacred merge into the material world, to turn into human history in making. Epiphany: all thoughts - the abstract - have an existence of their own. thinking is creating in solitude. thoughts communicated to other humans or animals, and/or manifested in material things, such as music, are works of creativity made social. but does that make the latter more real than the former? What, really, makes something real? Conclusion: the mind is, at this point, turned into mush. Thavius Beck - rapper, producer - is touching some riveting concepts here. Hip-hop as a language to express thoughts analogous to the above has been utilised before; think Divine Styler, Anti-Pop Consortium, and Dynamic Syncopation's Ground Zero. Think Rich Medina's Afrogermanic musings on Forss' 'ourneyman. Think David Bowie's 'Low' through a hip-hop ocular stairway. Most important, simply think. - Absorb |
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