And how is 'sober, responsible, cautious, different from playful, rebellious, immature? There are many instances when one can be cautiously playful or soberly immature or responsibly rebellious, and so on through all the permutations. The terms are not inherently opposite and that makes the pretentous quotation specious and silly, more an attempt at verbal stagecraft than an effort to speak wisdom.
I'll say it again: I detest these silly quotations chosen by Berg. They are so irresponsibly incautious. wc ----- Original Message ---- From: joseph berg <[email protected]> To: aesthetics-l <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, April 20, 2012 5:07:46 AM Subject: Is it time for art to become more sober, responsible, and cautious? - Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. Tom Robbins
