Or -- perhaps we just have different perceptions? In the realm of aesthetics, all people should rely on themselves for all proofs.
Otherwise, like Michael, they have nothing to contribute but conformity and occasional angry, desparate demands that others conform as well. William finds it shocking that I find Ansel Adams' photographs to be muddy -- while I find many of his statements (especially about post-modernism) to be shocking as well. Whose dinner party is it ? And who are the impudent children? BTW - authority is very important to scientific projects because it establishes facts. Those facts may, in the future, be disproven, but while they stand, ongoing science must either account for them or disprove them. >Miller relies on himself for all proofs. He is the supreme authority. He can ramble on with his severely cramped opinions (Ansel Adams' work is "muddy", etc) and make wild assertions that to him bolster his anti-modernist iconoclasm, which is his prime reason for getting up in the morning. Above all, Miller wants attention and like the impudent kid at the dinner party, he will say whatever snide thing he can to upset the adults at the table. Trouble is, both the child and the adult are Miller himself. You can share his opinion or not and if you share them Miller will immediately take them to some ludicrous extreme of childish stubbornness in order to assure his opinion will not be shared. Therein lies the paradox of Miller. He writes to enlist allies but whenever they appear too close he pulls away again with some newly hatched iconoclastic absurdity. His goal is to be completely alone with his self-justifying opinions. An crumpled and angry inner self is demanding the full-attention of his social self and will ruin any "party" to get it. (WC) >Miller wrongly equates scientific inquiry with appeals to authority. Actually the two are polar opposites. (WC) > ____________________________________________________________ Get free information on how to save on a Hawaiian vacation. Click Here. http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2231/fc/BLSrjnxVg7Fkx7jVCFICmET2UITbe7 nuqiVAqmwONfZYvrBMhaYSB1MfPWI/
