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mike  ·  3700 days ago  ·  link  ·  

An expression from the 60s was that someone was L7, meaning they were square. See the connection? I think that's really cool.

thenewgreen  ·  3701 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Thank you for that!

    In the parlance of jazz, a square was a person who failed to appreciate the medium, more broadly someone who was out of date or out of touch, hence the saying "be there or be square". In the counterculture movements that started in the 1940s and took momentum in the 1960s a "square" referred to someone who clung to repressive, traditional, stereotypical, one-sided, or "in the box" ways of thinking.
mike, what shape would be "jazz?"
mike  ·  3700 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Jazz might be a squiggle... this story comes to mind: