> From: GUEST,Blandiver
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> > What rubbish
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> How nice!

I don't mean any personal offence, but I do believe in calling a spade a spade. There is a tendency these days to denigrate science & technology, applying disparaging terms like 'geek' to those who profess to understand it. This tendency is often accompanied by vacuous, meaningless, or, such as you have made above, simply incorrect statements which show a fundamental misunderstanding of the world and the way it works. The fact that these are quotes from others doesn't make them any less wrong logically and scientifically.

> Both concern the diversity of organic eventfulness

Read that aloud as though someone else had written it. It's pseudo-intellectual meaninglessness.

> the general impermanence of things be it terms of growth, entropy or built-in obsolescence at all levels of material existence. We are all us changing; we are are all of us unique; we are all of us very different (thank god).

All but the last statement is true - we are all of us more alike than we are different, so we really can't be described as being *very* different - but as they're a rather obvious points, and not really relevant to this conversation, they don't really add anything uselful to it.

> This applies as much to the various lives & manifestations of Popular Songs as it does to trees, grass, crickets, solar systems, or personal computers.

Not really, most people who investigate the subject rationally think that far too many popular songs are formulaic and repetitive. See the recent thread where scientific investigation showed that popular songs are becoming less and less varied and more and more alike.