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[Pugwash]

no offence...

By which you mean "Prepare to be offended, because I'm going to call you names".

but I am so sick and tired of pseudo-intellectuals who utilize brain energy to go off on a artistic voyage of theories, critiques and wordy extrapolations...

when all this time and energy could be used to help the less fortunate, search for the cure to terrible diseases, aleviate the pain of the suffering and end all wars....

Art is useless and is only amusing to the Bourgeoisie.

So, you want to work the poor clever people to death in your cancer-curing mines?

Art advances us as a species. Art stops wars. Art eases suffering.

Get off this forum, go to University, get a PhD in cancer-curing and put your money where your mouth is.

[caravaggio]

By which you mean "Prepare to be offended, because I'm going to call you names".


So, you want to work the poor clever people to death in your cancer-curing mines?

Art advances us as a species. Art stops wars. Art eases suffering.

Get off this forum, go to University, get a PhD in cancer-curing and put your money where your mouth is.

Actually Pug...

I did go to university....three times, in fact...

1-Once to get my Bachelors of Fine Arts (two majorsi n drawing and painting)
2-Another time for my B. ED. (Specialty in French and Art: high School).
3-Lastly, for my Masters of Education (in Curricular Policies)

Not once did I suggest I had the cure to cancer...what I alluded to was that people who amuse themselves with conjectures and grand allures of philosophical debates about art or what it means etc,etc....seem to be a misuse of great intelligence when, as a global citizen of this earth, I see people empoverished all over the world, war killing many innocent people, acts of brutal terrorism, millions of people stricken with disease (not just cancer,by the way)....

Also, I disagree, art does not end wars or cure illnesses or advance civilisation.... as you certainly know youself, many instances in the past showed that art was a tool for war or a subsidiary reason for warring....

art is an overrated human occurance...

"Art feels like a tall long mirror wrapping humans around and shielding them with aesthetics and illusions of grandeur but , in reality, it is merely a selfish vehicle for the human ego, and even when man looks at himself and attempts to capture all that is him and around him and puts his one-way thinking imprint on it: Art."
Alain Breton

[Posh]

Actually Pug...

I did go to university....three times, in fact...

1-Once to get my Bachelors of Fine Arts (two majorsi n drawing and painting)
2-Another time for my B. ED. (Specialty in French and Art: high School).
3-Lastly, for my Masters of Education (in Curricular Policies)

Not once did I suggest I had the cure to cancer...what I alluded to was that people who amuse themselves with conjectures and grand allures of philosophical debates about art or what it means etc,etc....seem to be a misuse of great intelligence when, as a global citizen of this earth, I see people empoverished all over the world, war killing many innocent people, acts of brutal terrorism, millions of people stricken with disease (not just cancer,by the way)....

Also, I disagree, art does not end wars or cure illnesses or advance civilisation.... as you certainly know youself, many instances in the past showed that art was a tool for war or a subsidiary reason for warring....

art is an overrated human occurance...

"Art feels like a tall long mirror wrapping humans around and shielding them with aesthetics and illusions of grandeur but , in reality, it is merely a selfish vehicle for the human ego, and even when man looks at himself and attempts to capture all that is him and around him and puts his one-way thinking imprint on it: Art."
Alain Breton

Okay, why study art if you hate it so much? Why is that? Can you explain that to me? THEN I can address the rest of this . . . viewpoint.

[Pugwash]

Actually Pug...

I did go to university....three times, in fact...

How'd that work out for you?

Oh, you learned enough to tell people cleverer than you to get off their high horse while riding a donkey you wish was taller. Whoop. Throw a parade.

Those who can do do, those who fail[1] ... yeah, you know the rest.



[1] Usually, I have nothing but respect for teachers; it's the hardest job in the world, but sometimes even teachers, firemen and ER docs can be dicks. It's what happens when you hire humans.