A starting point

Ask yourself, for instance - Why are there Hotels?
First off, realize that there are a lot of ways to answer that... one that I like is:
Because someone once decided that there was something called a Hotel, and got people to agree with his idea.
Once enough people believed in Hotels, they proliferated...

Now on another level, we can say - He decided that there should be a "Hotel" because he saw that travellers had a need for some place to stay. We can keep following the regression back and forth now, seeing how "Airports" developed, and contributed to travel, and before that the idea of "vacations" and so on and so forth...

But the initial question and answer provide a good context for looking at all of these phenomena. Because it also hints at the passage of cultural structures from novelty to glorification to criticism to institutionalization as a "normal" part of reality. And people then stop asking Why are there Hotels?... and a great deal is lost in that process. Because there might be a better way.

"Normal, everyday reality" should ultimately seem curious and arbitrary, and that's a good starting point.

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Also, back in around 1810 or so, Beethoven was inventing jazz rhythms about 100 years ahead of schedule.
Check out around 6:30 to 8:00 into this piece for an example.

And then it goes into some crazy modern shit that was about 150 years ahead of its time probably.

Life is odd. I like it that way.