Chris wrote: "I distinguish between the ego-absent desire to participate in some universal-essential truth from the egocentric desire to believe that it has already happened."
- From my humble philosophical point of view, there is no such thing as a "ego-absent desire to participate in some universal.essential truth" Ego-absent desire to participate seems odd to me. Is desire egoless? Is desire a pre-rational stuff? If it is, you cannot "desire to participate".Participation being a decision. Is it a part of the perception-action process? As for the universal essential truth (very occidental, right?), we all know where it drives us: superstition, dictatorships, death and destruction. We'd be better off leaving that supposedly "universal essential truth" alone, or admit "it" doesn't exist and just enter the game of life. We are so scared and insecured we want to believe in "it", reach for "it", we will portray "it", worship "it", kill in "its"name. Anyone who does not recognize "its" existence is an ennemy. We will use "great" art as a medium to reach "it". And of course, we MUST preserve great art, right. Chris wrote: "Have you ever been around the children of professional intellectuals? Growing up in a family world of endless debate, the kids tend to become precociously (and often humorously) articulate -- and a collection of selected artifacts can have the same effect on the artist who lives with them. I think that's why artists like to collect stuff." - So do kids from what you called the jungle, and from small African villages. You do not have to be the son or daughter of "professional" intellectuals to be "precociously" articulate. With all due respect Chris, this is plain B.S. to say the least. - Collecting stuff ? You mean like trying to make permanent what's not ? Chris wrote: "As the long-departed Kirby noted, it's really something of a cultural disaster to have Marxists (or Leninists) ensconced in our cultural institutions because their understanding of the human condition is so narrow." - Narrow ? Cultural disaster ? Ha ha ha... looks who4s talking! "And besides, they're just wasting their own time. They should out in the factories trying to organize another revolution." - You mean, like the Rockefellers of the world want to organize the world economic order? - If faith is not egocentric, then what is it? Chris wrote: "So the reason for collecting it is not just to flatter oneself, but to repeatedly reach for what it has to offer." - Which is exactly the same, I'd say, but with a excuse. Luc ----- Original Message ---- From: Chris Miller <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, May 3, 2009 8:50:32 AM Subject: Re: Transgenerational and transcultural art [was Heidegger and Histo r ical Art]
