That doesn't answer my point. Yes, I do think a culture that produced Beethoven (and Monteverdi, Scarlatti, Corelli, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart, Berlioz, Rachmaninov, Sibelius and so on and so forth right up to Mike Oldfield and Hans Zimmer) is better than one which didn't and couldn't. Of course, as a product of said culture, it would be strange if I didn't. But I've seen pictures of the Benin bronzes, and I've seen pictures of the paintings of people from Giotto to Dali and beyond, and I've made my personal choice. Mr Quinn may think differently, as may you.
If one of those other ten thousand cultures could and did achieve that level of creativity, that complexity, that sophistication, then I'll happily admit that our civilisation is not the only meaningful way we could have developed. Without evidence...sorry, no.
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dancing_serpent
Re: Well...
Date: 2015-08-28 09:22 pm (UTC)If one of those other ten thousand cultures could and did achieve that level of creativity, that complexity, that sophistication, then I'll happily admit that our civilisation is not the only meaningful way we could have developed. Without evidence...sorry, no.