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Re: Geeks Cultural Illiterates

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From: Lizard
Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 00:00
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Silly rabbit.

If you liked it, it wasn't "art".

Anything you derive pleasure from -- intellectual, emotional, or
aesthetic pleasure -- isn't art. Art must be incomprehensible,
meaningless, abstruse, and worthless. If you would pay for it
*voluntarily*, then it can't be art. Hell, if you'd even *see* it
voluntarily, for free, it isn't art.

Art is stuff no one wants to see produced by people no one wants to
watch. Don't you know that?

The pleasure factor is vital. For example, most males would enjoy
seeing an attractive woman pour chocolate syrup all over herself[1].
So it isn't art. But when Karen Findley(sp) does it, it *is* art,
because no one in the audience enjoys it or is supposed to. Get it?
Good.

[1]Please alter all relevant genders as necessary for your own sexual
preferences. For the lactose-intolerant[2], please substitute 'jello'
or 'honey' instead of chocolate.

[2]End lactose intolerance now! Equal rights for Lactations! No
justice, no peace!
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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice;
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From: lizard@mrlizard.com (Lizard)
Subject: Re: Geeks Cultural Illiterates
Date: 1998/05/25
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