"However, I thought the question before this list was whether such a claim to the " invigorating, encouraging, vital, comforting, wholesome and enjoyable" was justifiable" -- Mike Mallory
A fine question to keep before this list. Can it be kept separate from whether we should choose good over evil or life over death ? Those are questions that can only be addressed from within ongoing religious/spiritual traditions -- unless you want to start a new one. Is the Modernist tradition one such tradition? It may have been able to effectively "destroy the status quo" -- but whatever future it offered is now part of our past -- i.e. it failed to sustain itself -- both the modernisms of art and social idealism -- they've all gone bust. And did they ever really imagine much beauty in the first place? Isn't the beauty of a modernist painting -- just a fortuitous accident? (because some people just can't help making things that are beautiful - regardless of their ideology) For myself - I'm afraid that I'm muddling along as an outsider to all of these traditions -- picking and choosing whatever idea sounds best at any one time. _____________________________________________________________ Looking for insurance? Click to compare and save big. http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2211/fc/Ioyw6ijmN4Kzij0fXWivx9oxjLo7Zz pkGkP2AQwNU5WPjDbh5m8KQ8/?count=1234567890
