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Article #1208Re: support for the arts in the US
From: Curtis Yarvin
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 22:12
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 22:12
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In article <th092g0@zola.esd.sgi.com> rmr@sgi.com (Robert M. Reimann) writes: >Have we beaten this to death yet? Thwack, thwack. Whumpa whumpa! Ooch. >curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin) writes: > >The answer is no. If the best argument you can >come up with is that Europeans are bloodthirsty, >and therefore aren't somehow justified in supporting >their artists, you should stop while you're ahead. Aha! But no. My argument is that supporting artists is an _inherently bloodthirsty act_. I brought up the Renaissance because fangs look sharper on a lion than on a pussycat; but one should not forget that they are both carnivores. Hopefully we have got down to the Fundamental Moral Disagreement, and can stop here. c
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!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 22:12:11 GMT Organization: UC Berkeley CS Dept. Lines: 23 Message-ID: <1gdo3rINN3qg@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <tecc2j4@zola.esd.sgi.com> <1gbvasINNptr@agate.berkeley.edu> <th092g0@zola.esd.sgi.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cobra.cs.berkeley.edu