Funny, I would say that prostitutes are serious practitioners! But if you use the term as a stand-in for artists and other people who make things as well as they can, and aim to sell them to earn a living, then you are misusing the term or abusing the professionals in the sex business, probably both.
Maybe you should take a look at art history. There you will discover that a large number of the world's great artists since the Ren. were also very mindful of their cash flow. wc ----- Original Message ---- From: joseph berg <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Mon, October 22, 2012 4:26:46 PM Subject: Re: What does capitalism have to do with art? On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 3:02 AM, William Conger <[email protected]>wrote: > What is Berg referring to, what idea? I'm quite confused by his seemingly > endless number of quotes taken out of context. I also lament his constant > habit > of making broad generalizations of different idea which become the basis > for > false contrasts. > His notion of ideas is like looking at a mountain from afar. From a > distance it > looks look, well, high, yet up close it proves to be extremely > variegated, so > much so that any one view cannot reveal the whole. > WC > > What I am trying to say is that in more and more fields of endeavor, aren't prostitution whores crowding out serious practitioners?
