07-18-2025, 03:40 AM
Per Shaw's reading, the Rhinedaughters represent nature, or perhaps the mocking class of otherwise-gorgeous quasi-aristocrat that has an easy affinity for nature, while Alberich represents the uncouth Capitalist. Think Elon Musk.
And yet, Musk has done more for humanity than that idiot Fabian writer of shite plays.
This one line threw me off.
To your point: I don't see sustained sublimity in Wagner. The overture to Rheingold is brilliant. All his overtures are brilliant. The overture to Die Walkure is better than the famous Ride later on.
But the bulk of his operas consist of rather dreary music and fat men and women in horned helmets screeching for Bayern Munich. It is a 19th century pantomime of Bronze age myths. It is the sort of pretentious nonsense that pseudo intellectuals like Bernard Shaw would've liked.
I don't think anyone - other than a handful of scientists and writers - who didn't come of age when computers were a thing have anything to offer humanity today. The reading of Aristotle should be outlawed.
And yet, Musk has done more for humanity than that idiot Fabian writer of shite plays.
This one line threw me off.
To your point: I don't see sustained sublimity in Wagner. The overture to Rheingold is brilliant. All his overtures are brilliant. The overture to Die Walkure is better than the famous Ride later on.
But the bulk of his operas consist of rather dreary music and fat men and women in horned helmets screeching for Bayern Munich. It is a 19th century pantomime of Bronze age myths. It is the sort of pretentious nonsense that pseudo intellectuals like Bernard Shaw would've liked.
I don't think anyone - other than a handful of scientists and writers - who didn't come of age when computers were a thing have anything to offer humanity today. The reading of Aristotle should be outlawed.