Novelty in the arts, as in all propositional endeavors. is shaped by the opportunities and domination of the marketplace The marketplace determines what smartness and intelligence are. Need I say that I regard that as a tragic distortion of intellect? Nobody but theologians and other such dreamers, including a few artists, pursue novelty because they are certain it will fail in the marketplace. Even weird obscure theory books need to be salable to be published. One of the benefits of the internet -- for now -- is the ease by which anything at all can obtain access to the world without being truly markeatble. wc
----- Original Message ---- From: joseph berg <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, November 5, 2010 6:50:33 PM Subject: Re: For those who worship intelligence, or, I'd rather be dumb and do the right thing But haven't you found that the more intelligent a person is, the more seriously they take boredom? And as that applies to the excesses and novelty of the arts of our time, isn't that because more people are perceiving art primarily as an intellectual experience? On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 11:56 AM, William Conger <[email protected]>wrote: > Dumb people don't always do the right thing, only the evolutionarily novel > thing. Get it? > wc > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: joseph berg <[email protected]> > To: aesthetics-l <[email protected]> > Sent: Thu, November 4, 2010 10:48:54 PM > Subject: For those who worship intelligence, or, I'd rather be dumb and do > the > right thing > > The following recent says: > > - Intelligent people don't always do the right thing, only the > evolutionarily novel thing. > > >http://www.theatlanticwire.com/features/view/feature/Smart-People-Do-More-Drugs-Because-of-Evolution-2425 >5
