Harry Pollard wrote:
>
> Brad,
>
> Your quote:
>
> "Does anyone know where I can find the quote from John Adams where
> he says something like that he has been a businessman so that his sons
> could become doctors and lawyers so that their sons could become
> artists and philosophers?
>
> I would love to be able to quote it!"
>
> This quote is so good, I advise you to steal it and make it your own.
>
> Harry
[snip]
Being personal, Harry, I don't want to
steal anybody's quote. That's why I
put "Yours in discourse..." in quotes, for instance,
because I didn't think of it.
But I'd love to be able to quote John Adams, because
*his* quote was both his and also better
than my paraphrase of it. I also find it
"neat" that the quote is by a Founding Father,
rather than be Karl Marx or somebody "subversive" --
which is the same reason I like to quote the
New York Times: semiotic Sun-Tzu warfare on the
Western front! [We have met the enemy, and
he is postmodern....]
There is another reason I wouldn't steal anybody else's
quote (as opposed to stealing icons off their
website...): I have come to see that my best
opportunity to find some satisfaction where I
lack the capital to act into the real world
in a meaningful way is to *create*. In the
act of creation, I forget I can't afford to
buy masterpieces made by others.... (Alas,
I cannot draw anything more subtle than
a stick figure....)
In the 19th century, "consumption" had different
connotations than it has today. I think we need
to move from a consumer society to a creator
society. You may agree.
http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/individuality.html
So, If ever I do find the John Adams quote,
I'll try to *build something with it* --> albeit
it will probably only be words and images and not
real buildings....
Doesn't anybody have the source for the
John Adams quote? (Autobiographical note: I
personally have tried to leap quite a number of
generations in Adams's taxonomy -- and not entirely
successfully, as should be pretty obvious to "you" --
"you" in general this time, not "personally").
Yours in semiotic metabolization....
\brad mccormick
--
Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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