Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Avoid long drawn out arguments. This should be a place to relax, not to waste your time needlessly.
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Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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Please do not spam at the top level. If you have a lot to post each day, try and post them all together in one top level comment
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Try keep things light. If you are bringing in deep stuff, try not to go overboard.
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Things that are clearly on-topic for this board should be posted as a separate post and not here (except if you are new and still getting the feel of this place)
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If you find people violating these rules, deport them rather than start a argument here.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evoloving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
I was thinking on how close we are to the end of the world as we know it: Jazz is pretty much the only music I listen to. I was talking to someone and they said, "Jazz is dead", and I think what he meant is that everything that could be done in the genre of jazz has been done; there is nothing new that can be done. I think this is pretty much true for music, and for art (and for literature, and probably a few more I can't think of). So in addition to all the other signs of this being the final few years of "Earth", perhaps the depletion of the creative activities, in terms of potential new things, is just one more sign.
To be fair though, wouldn't this have been the viewed the same for classical music, for rock and roll, etc, as well as abstract art, classical art, etc during their heydays? Then the next new thing comes along, starting the cycle all over again. We are in a creative rut as a society, sure, but we have been in a general stagnation of society as a whole for 2-3 decades, but that's not end of times, that's life in a dying country.