05-12-2011, 10:25 PM
Oddly synchronistic that you should reference the Jaynes book now.
Tomorrow night I'll have the great pleasure of hearing the most important jazz alto saxophonist currently working -- in my less-than-humble but well-informed opinion.
Bob Mover is appearing with Esperanza Spaulding -- whom he "discovered" in NYC a few years ago -- at the University of Rhode Island.
More to the point of this thread: Bob and I are contemporaries -- brothers from separate mothers, actually. About 25 years ago he and I discovered that we had read Jaynes years before, and that we were "depressed" by his conclusions.
It is high time, if you'll excuse the expression, that I revisit the book.
And yes, by all means find Bob Mover on YouTube; his best work is NOT captured there, alas. But there's enough present to get my point across.
Tomorrow night I'll have the great pleasure of hearing the most important jazz alto saxophonist currently working -- in my less-than-humble but well-informed opinion.
Bob Mover is appearing with Esperanza Spaulding -- whom he "discovered" in NYC a few years ago -- at the University of Rhode Island.
More to the point of this thread: Bob and I are contemporaries -- brothers from separate mothers, actually. About 25 years ago he and I discovered that we had read Jaynes years before, and that we were "depressed" by his conclusions.
It is high time, if you'll excuse the expression, that I revisit the book.
And yes, by all means find Bob Mover on YouTube; his best work is NOT captured there, alas. But there's enough present to get my point across.
Charles Drago
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If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene