Word: paradigmes
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...passed through a paradigm shift. Over the weekend, the President's man Karl Rove went to Hollywood to talk to producers about hearts and minds, and the propaganda reels that might be made--new stories, new heroes, new villains. It's not hard to imagine the movie treatments being hammered out on a thousand keyboards now: "It started as an ordinary September...
Pieties centered on individual rights have yielded to pieties of collective purpose and national security. In the Old Paradigm, flag waving was disapproved of and patriotism an embarrassment. You stood with everyone else, but never quite sang the anthem aloud. In the New Paradigm, the entire nation is festooned and flapping red, white and blue...
...Paradigm, police were marginal blue blurs from the outer boroughs, and fire fighters merely the hired help. In the New Paradigm, they are Heroes Who Rushed into the Burning Buildings When Everyone Else Was Running...
...memory have served as wake-up calls to America: the current trendiness of rave culture, led by superstar DJs and corporate entities, and 1997’s “electronica” craze. The latter saw a flurry of sensationalist stories in music magazines that envisioned the rock paradigm being overtaken by a legion of keyboard-wielding techno-freaks, in some kind of premillennial musical cyborg invasion. The truth was that artists like Prodigy and the Chemical Brothers themselves represented a rock-happy crossover breed, integrating elements from rave culture in order to fashion radio-friendly pop music...
...Avalanches entered at a perfect moment. Faceless producers have been refining and reinventing the forlorn soul of Detroit techno and Chicago house for more than a decade. While so much dance music continues to fashion itself around their paradigm, perhaps it’s time for another revolution. The Avalanches aren’t bringing the soul back to electronic music; they are giving...