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What Will Be Remembered…?
A Few Brief Thoughts on Modern Pop Culture and Its Worth to the Future.
Recently, I purchased a used hardback copy of the Hunter Drohojowska-Philp title “Full Bloom: The Art and Life of Georgia O’Keeffe”. It was a good buy, despite being a used copy; roughly $10, including shipping, for a 600+ page tome. O’Keeffe was, of course, a remarkable woman who lived a moderately troubled life, and who holds a place of distinction in the annals of modern art history. And I suppose the reason as to why I originally read the book was to do with exploring and understanding my place in the current creative zeitgeist, of which O’Keeffe is an important aspect.
As I’ve explored this age of ours, in some detail (whether through books, film, television or music), I’ve often pondered how people of the future, reading and learning thousands of years from now, will view our age. Will they have a complete picture of who we were as a people…? The possibility seems at least somewhat likely given our present conceit that everything we do is worthy of a place in some archive…somewhere… (most of it isn’t) There is also the possibility that some intervening society will determine that what we produced wasn’t worth remembering or a cataclysm could occur which wipes out the data we’ve preserved on our precious digital memory closets. Thus, people in the far…
