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> do not care about the past... You just reminded me of a quote from an electronic music documentary 25 years ago. One of the Detroit techno artists insisted o
by SyneRyder 6y ago
> do not care about the past...
You just reminded me of a quote from an electronic music documentary 25 years ago. One of the Detroit techno artists insisted on taking the filmmakers to a historic theatre that had been left to crumble & turned into a car park:
"In America especially, nobody tends to care about these kinds of things. People in America tend to let this shit just die, let it go. No respect for the history. I, being a techno, electronic, high-tech futurist musician, I totally believe in the future! But as well, I believe in a historic and well kept past. I believe there are some things that are important. Now, maybe this is more important like this, because in this atmosphere, you can realize how much people don't care, how much they don't respect. And it can make you realize how much you should respect."
- Derrick May, DJ/Composer, Universal Techno (1996)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=tdox6H7FJBU&t=955s https://youtube.com/watch?v=tdox6H7FJBU&t=955s
The segment starts at 16:00 in the video and is about 2 minutes long.
- Lammy 6y agoI don't think it's quite as simple as "Americans don't care about the past" when discussing cities like Detroit. The actual reason those places were left to rot is a lot worse imo, and it's the same reason that led to San Francisco becoming such a (cheap) haven for LGBT people / artists / etc in the 1970s and '80s: http://cornersideyard.blogspot.com/2020/06/repost-personal-segregation-story.html http://cornersideyard.blogspot.com/2020/06/repost-personal-s...