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Article #1196Re: support for the arts in the US
From: Curtis Yarvin
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 06:11
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 06:11
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In article <1992Dec10.141204.13258@syma.sussex.ac.uk> mapd1@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Nigel Ling) writes: > >Well, excuse me for saying so, but this is *not* what literature is. >Literature is art, not necessarily what the majority prefer to read. Oh? And who are you to decide which is which? But even were it possible to define what is literature and what is crap, fund the former and burn the latter, we could not agree. We have a fundamental moral conflict, which cannot be resolved by argument. You believe that art has intrinsic value. I believe that art is only valuable insofar as it makes people happy.(*) Each of us, no doubt, is quite unable to understand how the other could believe something so stupid. c *(And I don't mean in the Norman Rockwell sense; anything you enjoy looking at is, by definition, making you happy.)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!crcnis1.unl.edu!wupost!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!ames!agate!curtis From: curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin) Newsgroups: misc.writing Subject: Re: support for the arts in the US Date: 12 Dec 1992 06:11:10 GMT Organization: UC Berkeley CS Dept. Lines: 23 Message-ID: <1gbvpuINNq0e@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <td1k85o@zola.esd.sgi.com> <1g5p0cINNjf4@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Dec10.141204.13258@syma.sussex.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: cobra.cs.berkeley.edu