I've got it! Being a modernist is about wanting to be the best, wanting to experience the best life has to offer, and not being bound in by artificial boundaries, shackles, confines. A modernist will dress in the best clothes - not just try to fit in. A modernist never takes no for an answer. Modernists are artists - their lives the 'canvas'. I'm no historian - but this 'philosophy' has it's roots way back before the late 1950s. However 'cool jazz' represents an absolute revolution/milestone in the history of art - and it's not surprising it started a social revolution. After all - music is one of the most powerful forms of art as we all probably would agree. It's about the best. The absolute BEST. Oscar Wilde, Moravia, Cage, Sartre, E.E. Cummings, Mondrian, Billie Holiday, MJQ, Miles Davis, Dinah Washington, Mose Allison, John Lee Hooker - dimples in yer jaw - Lichtenstein, The Who, perfectly-angled bodies and perfectly cut clothes, The Vespa, hipsters for men, frock jackets and bouffants Gentlemen - the BEST... Puffa jackets are 'not mod'. Why? Because they are shit. They have no artistic value. Modernists' opinions don't just *differ* from other peoples - they supersede them - modernists are not 'different' - they are BETTER. However I must stress that I mean this in an artistic sense - and that it is perfectly possible to have taste in some things but not all. It's possible to appreciate art without the sheer OBSESSION of a modernist. Modernism in conclusion my friends, is more than a religion - it's tied in to the very fabric of human existence - it represents man reaching for existence in the ONLY way really - it represents total FREEDOM. Non-modernists (for want of a better term) should be pitied - without arrogance and superiority complexes (which I admit is difficult) a modernist should convert these other poor souls - a modernist owes it to himself/herself to introduce others to the wonderful beauty of life and reality. Buona vita!!! Thank you gentleman, and Good Night! _________________________________________________________ Enlighten your in-box. http://www.topica.com/t/15
