1. Local yokel upon first seeing Picasso
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Demoiselles_d%27Avignon> Les Demoiselles
d'Avignon.
"yes, yes, but could he really draw?"
2. Picasso listening to a local art authority explaining Les Demoiselles
d'Avignon.
"yes, yes, but has he ever drawn anything?"
3. Young artist being required to analyze Les Demoiselle d'Avignon:
"Yes, yes, but did Picasso know all of this or did he
just draw it?"
4. Local Red state yokel upon first seeing Picasso Les Demoiselles
d'Avignon:
"Yes, yes, he did that because he didn't know how to
draw."
5. Local adolescent upon first seeing Picasso Les Demoiselles d'Avignon:
"yes, yes, but what does this have to do with painting a picture."
6. Local six year old upon first seeing Picasso Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
next to the Shaman masks Picasso copied in Les Demoiselles d'Avigon.
"What picture?"
7. Local Shaman upon first seeing his masks in Picasso's painting Les
Demoiselles d'Avignon:
"yes, I see, lots of technique but not much heart."
Does it take a mathematician to be an economist? Well, when Stanley
Jevons first digitized utility he decided that Use = Utility and for him,
being useful was pleasure. Go figure. From that we got the ownership
society. There are cultures in the world who only value scarce rocks or
paper designated as exchange. How do we compare that to the creation of
Les Demoiselle d"Avignon? A Beethoven Symphony? A child's potential? or
the Brahm's Requiem? Three have to do with the quality of one's
psycho-physical mechanism and the sophistication of it's society. The
fourth has to do with the potential inherent in life. The Harrell paradox
is that "a rise in affluence leads to a diminution of societal quality and
not an increase". The more money there is, the less individual quality
sense of identity on the part of the citizenry. Sorry Stanley, couldn't
resist.
There was a decline in both identity, quality and pleasure in the 19th
century led by the British Isles and America. We are all suffering for
that little bit of hubris and moaning about it. It can't be fixed! It
had to happen! It will happen again!
In Turandot that was the role of the three counselors Ping, Pang and Pong.
Go have some fun guys.
REH
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Sent: Saturday, October 02, 2010 8:29 PM
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Subject: Re: [Futurework] Not a very positive picture
Yup!!
Ed
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From: "Mike Spencer" < <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]>
To: < <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, October 02, 2010 1:46 PM
Subject: [Futurework] Re: Not a very positive picture
>
> Arthur wrote:
>
>> Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite
>> world is either a madman or an economist. -- Kenneth Boulding
>
> Why is that not obvious to anybody who has taken the basic math
> courses required for an undergrad degree in economics? Everything is
> sigmoid.
>
> At the risk of distracting us from more serious debate, I venture to
> inject a bit of levity on where to begin when writing a paper on
> economics or, for that matter, any academic paper, up to and including
> a PhD thesis, on any subject.
>
>
> From the Data Analysis Devices Application - Toolkit With
> Integrated Tao (DADA-TWIT):
>
> 1. Everything is bell-shaped (Normally distributed)
>
> 2. Everything is sigmoid (Diminishing returns)
>
> 3. Everything is sinusoidal (Goes in cycles)
>
> 5. Everything is stochastic (Completely random and unpredictable)
>
> 6. Everything is fractal (It's turtles all the way down)
>
> 7. Everything is a metaphor (The Pomo option, for the math
challenged)
>
>
> None of these putative universals is true, of course, but you
> can write a nice academic paper on almost anything by assuming
> one of them and then demonstrating that the assumption is or is
> not justified. If you can't spin a PhD thesis out of one of
> these, you may need to invoke:
>
>
> 8. Shit happens (The Dada, holistic, artistic option)
>
>
> --
> Imafa Kinasso
>
> Director, Ontic Research Knowledgebase (Lagos, NG)
> Bridgewater Institute for Advanced Study
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