In a message dated 3/4/10 8:22:45 PM, [email protected] writes:
> I happen to agree that Miller should not be tossed off the list. > Free speech and all that. It's just that I can't deal with his outlook > anymore and would prefer a list that is more attuned to cooperative > intellectual discussion instead of using a faux discussion as a vehicle to insult and > ridicule others and what they seem to represent. Without me (his targeted > symbol for contemporary art, art professors, museums, the art meritocracy > and class bias, and so much more) his commentaries may reveal something more > interesting. I admit I see him as the Glenn Beck of art and aesthetics. > > Nonsense. This is not about free speech and Miller's right to it, it is > about basic manners. No manners, no list "more attuned to cooperative inte > llectual discussion instead of using a faux discussion as a vehicle to > insult and ridicule others and what they seem to represent." I don't actually > care if Miller wants to be a proletarian neighborhood intellectual and > cling to his view that the elite ruin everything-but he has to be reasonably > polite. He cannot continuously make slyly snide remarks in the hopes of > provoking, he cannot make his numerous other habitual unpleasantries. I > don't care if he can't spell, doesn't know any art history, can't write > decent English, and is completely uneducated,he has to be polite. This is true > for any other lister as well. It would be nice if some effort was put into > thinking, if there was some engagement in the concerns of this list but > the first requirement is to be reasonably polite-no studied insults, and > some connection with the problems at hand. We were able to carry on like > that for years, and Miller was a part of it,so he is capable of it. > Kate Sullivan
