The vanguard may have already arrived.
The danger is that the vanguard may get out too far ahead of the citizens.
Their music may lack the vanguard credentials of Schoenberg's or Stravinsky's, at least on the sonic surface, but Nielsen, in his 1925 book "Living Music," makes a good counter-argument: "The simplest is the hardest, the universal the most lasting, the straightest the strongest, like the pillars that support the dome".
But there is at least one aspect of that threat that our dystopian generation, including the most elite of our technocratic vanguard, may tend to exaggerate: namely, the ability for artificial intelligence to become "self-aware" to the extent that it could, as Elon Musk suggests it might "press the delete key" on humanity.
Rand Paul may be the vanguard of a new Tea Party politician, which should cause one party to get down on its knees and give thanks: The Democrats.
Today, Divide County may be another vanguard for the state, this time ominous, as the first to feel the full effect of a collapse in prices that has lopped more than 50percentt off the price of oil since the summer.
The findings presented by Félix and Duveau may represent the vanguard of a new generation of C. elegans researchers: you may find teams of Caenorhabditis-ologists paying remarkably close attention to rotting fruit in an orchard near you this summer.
But the news revolution that it appeared to be be vanguarding may eventually fizzle out.
Len may be in the vanguard, but much of the population is close behind.
In his low-key, no-frills way, Ritter may be in the vanguard of what the national Democratic Party is becoming, both in its demographics and its policies.
