SLSL Intro "A Bunch of Old Guys"

[Dave Monroe]

"Maybe this small attachment to my past is only
another case of what Frank Zappa calls a bunch of old
guys sitting around playing rock'n'roll.  But as we
all know, rock 'n' roll will never die, and education
too, as Henry Adams always sez, keeps going on
forever." (SL, "Intro," p. 23)


"a bunch of old guys"

E.g. ...

http://www.rollingstones.com/home.php

But what's the source here?  In the meantime ...

http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/ReadingRoom/2.2/McHoul.html


"rock 'n' roll will never die"

Hey hey, my my
Rock and roll can never die
There's more to the picture
Than meets the eye
Hey hey, my my ...

http://hyperrust.org/cgi-bin/m.pl?125


"as Henry Adams always sez"

E.g. ...

"The attempt of the American of 1800 to educate the
American of 1900 had not often been surpassed for
folly; and since 1800 the forces and their
complications had increased a thousand times or more.
The attempt of the American of 1900 to educate the
American of 2000, must be even blinder than that of
the Congressman of 1800, except so far as he had
learned his ignorance....

[...]

   "To educate—-oneself to begin with—-had been the
effort of one’s life for sixty years; and the
difficulties of education had gone on doubling ...
until the prospect of waiting another ten years, in
order to face a seventh doubling of complexities,
allured one’s imagination but slightly. The law of
acceleration was definite, and did not require ten
years more study except to show whether it held good.
No scheme could be suggested to the new American, and
no fault needed to be found, or complaint made; but
the next great influx of new forces seemed near at
hand, and its style of education promised to be
violently coercive. The movement from unity into
multiplicity, between 1200 and 1900, was unbroken in
sequence, and rapid in acceleration. Prolonged one
generation longer, it would require a new social mind.
As though thought were common salt in indefinite
solution it must enter a new phase subject to new
laws. Thus far, since five or ten thousand years, the
mind had successfully reacted, and nothing yet proved
that it would fail to react,—-but it would need to
jump."

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/hadams/eha34.html

http://www.bartleby.com/159/34.html

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/hadams/ha_home.html

http://www.bartleby.com/159/

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