The reason you should care about the story of General Magic is because it involves something fundamental, and that is; failure is not the end, failure is actually the beginning.
And you are responsible to invent the future. Because the future that your parents handed you, is broken. So the question you should be asking “What can I do to create the future?”
“One doesn’t expect to get from life what one has already learned it cannot give, rather, one begins to see that life is a kind of sowing time… and the harvest is not yet here.”
He was just a humble preacher’s son. And yes, he had his demons, but they never stopped him from searching for beauty. Because when you find beauty, you find inspiration. If that is, you stay as determined as Vincent.
Never stop, no matter how many failures. When you know you’re doing what you’re meant to do, you have to try.
Bu antik nesnenin, yaşamın mucizesine dair bu duru portrenin güzel olduğunu söylemek yetersiz kalacak, yüzeysel bir övgüden öteye gitmeyecek; çünkü güzellik bir varış noktasıdır, yola çıkış noktası değil ve herhangi bir şeyin güzel olabilmesinin tek yolu hakiki olmasıdır. Hakikat dışında güzellikten söz edilemez; hakikatın kendisi de mükemmel uyumdan başka birşey değildir ve uyum, eninde sonunda yararlılıklar demetinden ibarettir.
O halde, yararlı şeylerin bir modeli var mıdır? Yetersiz bakışımızla doğayı tanıyalım ya da tanımayalım, her şey varlık nedenini onda bulur. Evrensel denge durmaksızın kendini yinelemeseydi yaşam mucizesi de kendini sürdüremezdi.
Demek ki, doğadaki herşey bir yararlılıktır; bu yararlılıkların içinde ve üstünde temel bir yasanın, uyumun egemenliği vardır; doğa, uyumlu olduğu için hakikidir, hakiki olduğu için güzeldir ve ebediyen şaşırtıcı bir güzellikte kalacaktır.
The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster: in the labyrinth, in being hard with themselves and with others, in effort; their delight is in self-mastery; in them asceticism becomes second nature, a necessity, an instinct. They regard a difficult task as a privilege; it is to them a recreation to play with burdens that would crush all others.
Self portrait, Berlin.
The moment you begin to worry, the moment you acknowledge the worry, you solidify its existence, which is why we chose to ignore it. All you have is perception. There is no objective truth. You create the truth you want to inhabit. So what do you want for yourself?
Mankind was a tragic species, doomed perhaps from the very beginning. Our fatal and beautiful fate was to always attempt to bite off more than we can chew.. be better than nature intended.
We found a place in ourselves for compassion, even though it was conflicting with the law of survival. We managed to feel self-respect, even if it was always trampled on. Create art masterpieces, comprehending their uselessness and frailness.
We found in ourselves the ability to love. Oh Lord, it was so difficult! For inexorable time caused our bodies, thoughts and senses to decay.
But a man continued to love. And love created art, an art which reflects our unbearable yearning for perfection, our immense despair and our endless cry of terror, a howl of desolate thinking creatures in the cold and impassive space desert
Don’t waste your time on things that don’t matter or that you don’t love. Time is the only resource that you will not buy back.
Mortality, madness and greed: On “The Dark Side of the Moon,” released 50 years ago today, Pink Floyd transformed grim subjects into indelible rock music.
The album’s sonic experimentation — the ticking clocks of “Time,” the soaring vocals of “The Great Gig in the Sky” — have had an enduring appeal. The record spent almost 14 years on Billboard’s Top 200 album chart, and it remains popular on streaming platforms. “‘Dark Side’ was an album that worked equally well to show off a new stereo,” the Times critic Jon Pareles writes, “or to be contemplated in private communion with headphones and a joint.”
Photograph: Pink Floyd in 1973. Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images
50th anniversary collector’s edition box: Pentagram
