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Romanticism, Realism, Modernism, Post-Modernism… where on Earth are we? We are on Earth, and it is a very strange place. Read about movement and momentum building among the arts.

Concept: Zeitgeist, by the Smashing Pumpkins.

The cardinal sin that almost every review (positive and negative) of Zeitgeist has committed so far is interpreting it strictly as a referendum on Billy Corgan and his other efforts to date. Certainly that history is significant (you can read it all here), but it is an oversimplication to simply denounce the new album as Billy Corgan’s personal hand at work, or to rehabilitate it because the same has always been true.

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