tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2827686628390256307.post773605443599373984..comments2023-07-01T05:08:10.322-07:00Comments on Vinyl Art: Value In AbundanceDaniel Edlenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08436936397692338336noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2827686628390256307.post-35227255895816293482009-01-22T08:14:00.000-07:002009-01-22T08:14:00.000-07:00Great commments!@soniasimone - I remember loving t...Great commments!<BR/><BR/>@soniasimone - I remember loving the special individual thing too. It wasn't because it was rare, like I had the only one. It was because it was unique, different. Also it was special when its story was special. Your son got that marker from you differently. He recognized the value you'd placed on it.<BR/><BR/>As far as status, that's related to earned worth, not rarity. Yes, they used items that were more scarce, but their value was not in that, but their symbolism. That's gotten trivialized as commercialism obscured the work put into earning the status, losing the substance.<BR/><BR/>@CoCreatr - Good question! I think the ocean would be the space in the universe useful for individuals relating to individuals. As the Tao Te Ching discusses, it is the space inside the cup that is useful, not the cup.Daniel Edlenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08436936397692338336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2827686628390256307.post-62287501479700044842009-01-21T23:06:00.000-07:002009-01-21T23:06:00.000-07:00Ever so subtly making the point, Daniel, like the ...Ever so subtly making the point, Daniel, like the diamond stylus caressing the groove to elicit the music: "You don't what you've got 'til it's gone."<BR/><BR/>Now that we "know" the peninsula is attached to the mainland, what would be the ocean?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2827686628390256307.post-56231679240014993822009-01-21T18:09:00.000-07:002009-01-21T18:09:00.000-07:00I actually think it's innate. My little boy (he's ...I actually think it's innate. My little boy (he's 3.5) has that same love of the scarce. He has a whole box of markers in every color he loves, but his most prized one is the lone yellow highlighter he coaxed out of me. Maybe the love of rarity is about wanting what's harder to get? Maybe it's our monkey love of novelty?<BR/><BR/>It seems to me that every era, even the prehistoric, had ways for people to spend excess wealth. Wealth for prehistoric people might have been a necklace of the rare blue beads rather than those common old brown ones. We display status as consistently and proudly as birds flashing their feathers to find a mate.<BR/><BR/>And as for me, I can't deny that I value Tom Waits fans more than I do Britney Spears ones. :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com