Almost Lisa: Pt 18, “Almost numb”
Almost Lisa: Pt 18, “Almost numb” HIRAETH- (n.) a homesickness for a home to which you cannot return, a home which maybe never was, the nostalgia, the yearning, the grief for the lost places of your past Who can relate? I used to get excited about things. There was inspiration eve rywhere, always. But over the past decade or so, everything has been dumbed-down, over-simplified, RE-peated, RE-hashed, RE-visited...8 billion people on the planet, but we're fed the same ideas, again and again. Music is now predictable and uninspiring, true fashion is nearly non-existent, architecture (commercial and residential) has become carbon copy and pre-fabricated, and most of what is seen on television is fairly predictable. Why did we start regressing as a society? Did we choose this? Artists are the motivators and inspiration for communication, growth and progress. Big Corp silences our Creatives and makes them to seem unimportant and devalued. We are now on the othe...