'Serenity'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I don't know that I can count being an artist as doing something useful with your privileged background.
Heh. This is where we diverge in opinion by a wide margin. Since I can think of very few life-choices as valuable as being a creative artist. In my ethos - making things that affect people for generations - most useful/valuable thing. Maybe...pediatric oncologist, or cardiologist would come in ahead of that.
I think art is valuable and important, but not useful. And useful is my most important thing, so.
worse still, AC in the speech quoted a commencement address given by Yoko Ono. I can't rmember the exact quote, but his response?!?!?! "easy when you have a billion dollars" eyerolly toward Yoko. UM POT!!!
Also, easier to try one's hand at a creative career when paying the rent is not a big concern.
I don't know that I can count being an artist as doing something useful with your privileged background.I think art is useful, specifically useful, not just valuable and important.
"easy when you have a billion dollars" eyerolly toward Yoko. UM POT!!!
Ha ha!
I'm not saying anyone has to agree with me.
I think art is valuable and important, but not useful. And useful is my most important thing, so.
Shelley argued that poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. The chief moral value of art (as he posited it) was that art gave you experiences you didn't experience and consequently created intimacy and sympathy with others. That seems plausible to me. That's one thing I get from reading or movies. To know things beyond my experience.
Why do I think culture/art has such a high utility? Because in my experience all of the presumptions within our culture are mutable and part of an ongoing conversation. So the books on urban density that you favor were not pulled out of the air intact, but are the practical result of a long conversation that originates in philosophy and art before it achieves practicable use.
All practical and useful solutions are rooted in prior philosophical, artistic and cultural dialogue. Right down to the scientific method which derives from Aristotle.
I feel inclined to stick up for Art, but I must admit sometimes I get revolted by some of those giant box office numbers, too.(Even though I find movies valuable.)
In other news (or IS it??), I just got pictures from a friend of mine of her and her kid at Baby Loves Disco.
All practical and useful solutions are rooted in prior philosophical, artistic and cultural dialogue. Right down to the scientific method which derives from Aristotle.
Sure. But my dinner was rooted in dirt and seeds, but that doesn't make them food.
Sure. But my dinner was rooted in dirt and seeds, but that doesn't make them food.
No dirt, no food for you. Have fun in hydroponic tomotaland.