Analyzing Andrew Solomon's Search for Song

I found the podcast to be rather interesting and lively. Andrew Solomon did a great job of speaking. One thing that stuck out to me in this podcast was when he was discussing the lack of easy communication and when they were discussing how the past must be preserved before they could think about the future. It really struck me because we in a Western society take a lot of our technology and instant communications for granted and don't realize that it's not like that everywhere else. Here in the U.S. we can download music and have local artist record music and instantly e-mail it to everyone we know etc. While in Afghanistan, it would be much harder to locate the artists and musicians without the technology that we have. Then when the miniature painter was talking about preserving the past before the future could even be dreamed of made me think really hard about how I always think about who I will be and never think that who I was could be lost and no one would remember it. I never think about how the past might not be there and never thought about actively trying to preserve it because it seems to preserve itself here. Anyway, those are the major things that I thought about while listening to the podcast. Sort of a different take on things.