[October 2002 journal entry]
We recently enjoyed having my artist friend Dean as our houseguest for a few days. In one conversation, Dean asked why western cultures appear to have drifted/declined into decadence (as he considered an audio-book at Borders that argued this thesis). I responded, “Information overload.” We had a very stimulating conversation about the consequences of having too much information to be able effectively to organize information into a construct or paradigm. Since that conversation, I have been considering the association of ‘cadence’ with ‘decadence’.
