Rough beginnings of a new era surpass an old era’s refined end
Evidence
And yet the historian, with the benefit of all necessary perspective, manages to establish and to understand the fact that the beginnings of a new world, rough and jagged though they always are, are better than the passing away of the world in its death-throes and the swan-song that it produces. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1232
Categorization
- APHORISMS: A sweeping historical-decay judgment: nascent realism outweighs decadent refinement.
- XREF: connects to: The spectacular era is over; the medium dissolves into the real. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 110; Attempted revivals of past traditions accelerate their decay — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1454; Attempted revivals of a lost past accelerate the decay of what survives of it. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 369 (+1 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The spectacular era is over; the medium dissolves into the real. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 110; Attempted revivals of past traditions accelerate their decay — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1454; Attempted revivals of a lost past accelerate the decay of what survives of it. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 369 (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- The blanked-out past signals a present hollowed of genuine newness
#complicates(0.78) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1314 - Attempted revivals of past traditions accelerate their decay
#complicates(0.73) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1454 - Attempted revivals of a lost past accelerate the decay of what survives of it.
#complicates(0.73) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 369