A fascinating and very apt comparison! Although superficially intrigued by ELP's work, I also realized this was primarily due to their drawing upon "real music" for their "source material", but that the whole *rock* idiom is ultimately ugly and disturbing. Yet, their music seemed to lie on the less "offensive" end of the spectrum, I woul…
A fascinating and very apt comparison! Although superficially intrigued by ELP's work, I also realized this was primarily due to their drawing upon "real music" for their "source material", but that the whole *rock* idiom is ultimately ugly and disturbing. Yet, their music seemed to lie on the less "offensive" end of the spectrum, I would say.
It would be an interesting study - tho probably a multi-volume account - to trace the history leading up to how things like rock music and the Novus Ordo all erupted upon us in that era. Hard to believe they were completely independent trajectories.
Absolutely: the Western Church and Western culture were already estranged and losing their bearings for several centuries, but a sort of inertia held things together until the French Revolution with its unleashing of a century of hatred against the Catholic Church and then the two World Wars, which battered morals and dogma to smithereens (for many). Vatican II was a belated and inadequate response to a very long period of decline, and only managed to accelerate that decline by its effeminate spirit of accommodation. If Vatican II had been a thundering anti-modern council (if that were possible given the men involved), I think it would have given huge momentum to the Church. By seeming to be a lukewarm Council that said "yes" and "no" to modernity, it simply signaled weakness and capitulation.
A fascinating and very apt comparison! Although superficially intrigued by ELP's work, I also realized this was primarily due to their drawing upon "real music" for their "source material", but that the whole *rock* idiom is ultimately ugly and disturbing. Yet, their music seemed to lie on the less "offensive" end of the spectrum, I would say.
It would be an interesting study - tho probably a multi-volume account - to trace the history leading up to how things like rock music and the Novus Ordo all erupted upon us in that era. Hard to believe they were completely independent trajectories.
Absolutely: the Western Church and Western culture were already estranged and losing their bearings for several centuries, but a sort of inertia held things together until the French Revolution with its unleashing of a century of hatred against the Catholic Church and then the two World Wars, which battered morals and dogma to smithereens (for many). Vatican II was a belated and inadequate response to a very long period of decline, and only managed to accelerate that decline by its effeminate spirit of accommodation. If Vatican II had been a thundering anti-modern council (if that were possible given the men involved), I think it would have given huge momentum to the Church. By seeming to be a lukewarm Council that said "yes" and "no" to modernity, it simply signaled weakness and capitulation.