15 September 2008

- Grand Experiment -

I'm checking out from the election coverage for a week—no NY Times, no WaPo, no NPR ... especially no blogs. My goal is to figure out what sort of information/message a reasonably distracted person might be getting about the election. I'll issue reports as they come.

Let's start with this mornings paper. A lot about the hurricane; the Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers situation is also on the front page along with a small campaign article. Inside, there is a big article about Obama's $66 million haul. None of the opinion pieces addressed the campaign directly, but there was an editorial about candidate fashion choices.

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Here [in Fidelio] and nowhere else music becomes a rosy dawn, militant religious, the dawning of a new day so audible that it seems more than simply hope. It shines forth as the pure work of Man, as one which had not appeared in the world surrounding Beethoven, a world that existed irrespective of men. Thus music as a whole stands at the farther limits of humanity, but at those limits where humanity, with new langauge and haloed by the call to achieved intensity, to the attained world of "we," is first taking shape. And this ordering in our musical expression means a house, indeed a crystal, but one derived from our future freedom: a star, but one that will be a new Earth.

—Ernst Bloch
The Principle of Hope