rini, I like to share my views on that loooong post on "carrying" on to future. I view it this way. If the stone-age man wanted to carry everything that "he" considered great arts (of his time) and if every following generation had been so meticulus in following what its ancesters taught was their best arts then it might have been difficult to envision if we wud have achieved this levels of progress in so many varied fields. It is no doubt vital to carry on tradition but, it is a natural phenomenon that tranformations occur and many things are at some point going to meet their natural death. From a different angle, it is an essential part of the nature-chain that anything (be it art or whatever) needs to die and new forms take over. I don't mean to say "kill"... but the natural phenomenon of death cannot be prevented but cud probably be prolonged and that too to a certain extent. So, there is no need to have an iota of guilt on "what we r going to carry to our future generation" ... we are loaded with a lot of stuff that we ourselves are not aware of. They are embedded by the ways our parents brought us up and by the environment and friends who have had their own significant impact in framing us. It lies in us not to blindly emulate but to learn from the examples of our predecessors and form an example for the next generation to study. And it also is in our part to encourage the future generation not to try to emulate us but to learn from our examples and frame themselves for their future... I'm not sure how much sense my views make to u all... But, after all, these are MY views and just wanted to share them.... and just a small quote to fin... Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on "I am not too sure." - H.L.Mencken PS: Brickbats welcome...