Dissonance

[mnaz]

Dissonance, the only masterpiece.
Trot out your theories of coherence,
or despise their unintelligible reality.
But dissonance cannot depart.
It is here with us, large earth,
despite the view.

In Burma lives the tenth largest army.
Can't figure how to live together in Burma,
how to patrol, how to figure human dignity and love.
The tenth largest army is pretty common these days.
Dissonance is the next hill of any proper warrior,
despite the view.

[mtmynd]

"Dissonance is the next hill of any proper warrior, despite the view."

Those proper warriors love their discord... gives them purpose and reason. (damn them)

[gypsyjoker]

Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)


The engine driving self-justification is cognitive dissonance: "a state of tension that occurs whenever a person holds two cognitions (ideas, attitudes, beliefs, opinions) that are psychologically inconsistent," Tavris and Aronson explain. "Dissonance produces mental discomfort, ranging from minor pangs to deep anguish; people don't rest easy until they find a way to reduce it." It is in that process of reducing dissonance that the self-justification accelerator is throttled up.

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=bus ... ror&sc=rss

[Arcadia]

is there still someone
with audition capacity for that?

good writing!!!!!!

[mnaz]

dissonance, a universal harmony.
a clock in the throes of space.
hope in a bottomless chamber.
turn the page, take a breath,
numbered, forms come and go.
i never saw it coming.

[westcoast]

dissonance:
the evolutionary impulse
the flicker of the lizard brain
kill it or fuck it


good piece!

~westie

[Lightning Rod]

Dissonance is a color
must be on the palette
music, like any art, depends on tension
the tension between rhythm and tone
the tension between dissonance and consonance
the tension between invention or confusion and resolve

dissonance is pain
(some people like pain)
and consonance is pleasure or release

the magic is combining them in just the right way

[mnaz]

Makes sense, really. It's as ageless and timeless as a broken heart.

Thanks Cec, Jack, Arcadia, westie, & Clay.