All the honor to you! To you, millennials, beginning or continuing college this year, toiling in late middle school, rebelling in high School under the harsh rod of Algebra 3…… All the Honor to you!

I’ve just shown an antique to one of you: a prized, early album of Dave Von Ronk, alluded to on Dylan’s first album, when he was still unsure if he was Zimmerman or Guthrie: and aging in my kitchen closet for a generation which saw compact discs, cds, and I-tunes supercede “Blue Monday” on Mercury Records….

We were talking about intellectual property: the claim that what I think when thinking about Mickey Mouse is really not mine because it is owned by a corporation …. When I understood that my entire education: that chain or train of intellectual transmission by academic reference and citation, by painful parsing with sign-off by dissertation committee, has been superceded by MASHUP: that it simply IS what it IS…. As the philosopher said (dasein>>) “thrown”….. and that’s it.

Bottom line: post references and provenance: what’s it gonna do? Where is its value?

William James was correct: pragmatism is our singular belief.

As my Gen X buddy in B-school said: rock on!

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