Fancypants

English is a quirky language and I never understood the use of 'fancypants'. On a quasi-totally unrelated side note, I've read somewhere this week that it's customary to say a piece is 'pretentious' when you dislike it and don't want to admit the personhood of their aversion (this statement was bold). We are living a very fancy moment in 2010 and, as much as I hate to admit it, the year is coming to an end and we're saying goodbye to this round, harmonic number. 2010. It could have been the best year of the entire human history - despite all the bad things that insist on happening all the time, they pale if compared to what we had in the past.

People in the future have an disloyal advantage over us. Unbiased by the present reality, they will be able to better analyse the moment we are going through. I think we think we're doing pretty well, thank you, all the information systems that allow me to tell Dodom that my instrument, if thrown properly, deals more damage than his (2d4, pfff). We don't know if life will really worsen on the next decades or if it will keep getting better.

How can a piece not be pretentious? If it humbles before our cultural heritage, if it follows the lead of great artists of the past? How can a piece not be pretentious regarding the future? Can we really believe we are really living the best moment of human history?

It would rock if I kept on and started actually making references and developing a trail of thought, but finishing with unanswerable questions is cool too and buys me time to compose.