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I contrast modernism vs post-modernism through two songs about rainbows. One was the first number from the 1979 movie The Muppet Movie, "Rainbow Connection" performed by Kermit the Frog (Jim Henson). The second song is from The Gregory Brothers (http://youtube.com/schmoyoho) and Yosemitebear (http://www.youtube.com/user/Hungrybear9562). Whereas Jim Henson was creating something within the old system of getting an idea approved by the various Hollywood gatekeepers and then producing an original work "within the system," the YouTube generation isn't interested in original work. Even beyond pastiche, we literally create derivative works such that the Double Rainbow song was "written" haphazardly while Paul Vasquez was witnessing a rainbow, and then arranged and composed by the Gregory Brothers. I discuss my thoughts on the implications, using other examples from the Gregory Brothers. The Gregory Brothers http://youtube.com/schmoyoho YosemiteBear http://www.youtube.com/user/Hungrybear9562 http://yosemitebear.net/ The Rainbow Connection http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSFLZ-MzIhM Postmodernity (section: History) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernity Habakkuk 3:17-19 ESV (my caps) "Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls, YET I WILL REJOICE IN THE LORD; I will take joy in the God of my salvation. God, the Lord, is my strength; he makes my feet like the deer's; he makes me tread on my high places."