I too thank God that the whining of those of us who are proud dilettantes is becoming "less relevant" to your generation.
Speaking for the dilettantes everywhere (a very dilettante-ish thing to do!), I can say that being RELEVANT is the one thing we wish to avoid and news that we can wind our way along life's path, a veritable ramble, without being "cool" or "relevant" (or whatever is the cool and relevant word for being cool or relevant) is exciting indeed. Ah, the open field this will allow us!
Great Zeus, man, have you never seen an Oscar Wilde play? It is our common goal as dilettantes to complain without being taken seriously!
There is a noble art in expressing the complaints of the gentleman too busy enjoying life to slow down enough to give a thorough and scholarly hiding to a really bad idea. Instead, we quip a bit and move on to enjoying our lives. Of course, I am too young to be really good at it yet, but with practice hope to become a veritable curmudgeon.
But are you sure that this good news is really true?
I have noticed no decrease in complaining, even in nasal tones, in this upcoming generation . . . about cafeteria food or anything else and it does not seem that the noble art of living well while carelessly dabbling in many fields has totally died. Blog comment boxes seem to support the idea that people are still (sadly) taking our whining seriously enough to write about it.
So despite your kind and hopeful words . . . I shall have to go on fearing that quips and jests, dabbling in fields left to my betters, will still be taken all too seriously . . . even by the young.
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These are the ramblings of a whining dilettante. Thank God these kind of folks are becoming less and less relevant to our generation.
Dear Guest,
I too thank God that the whining of those of us who are proud dilettantes is becoming "less relevant" to your generation.
Speaking for the dilettantes everywhere (a very dilettante-ish thing to do!), I can say that being RELEVANT is the one thing we wish to avoid and news that we can wind our way along life's path, a veritable ramble, without being "cool" or "relevant" (or whatever is the cool and relevant word for being cool or relevant) is exciting indeed. Ah, the open field this will allow us!
Great Zeus, man, have you never seen an Oscar Wilde play? It is our common goal as dilettantes to complain without being taken seriously!
There is a noble art in expressing the complaints of the gentleman too busy enjoying life to slow down enough to give a thorough and scholarly hiding to a really bad idea. Instead, we quip a bit and move on to enjoying our lives. Of course, I am too young to be really good at it yet, but with practice hope to become a veritable curmudgeon.
But are you sure that this good news is really true?
I have noticed no decrease in complaining, even in nasal tones, in this upcoming generation . . . about cafeteria food or anything else and it does not seem that the noble art of living well while carelessly dabbling in many fields has totally died. Blog comment boxes seem to support the idea that people are still (sadly) taking our whining seriously enough to write about it.
So despite your kind and hopeful words . . . I shall have to go on fearing that quips and jests, dabbling in fields left to my betters, will still be taken all too seriously . . . even by the young.
Tongue firmly in cheek,
JMNR