Hi John, When discussing art we could recall that Pirsig said, "art is endeavor." He also said it resides at all levels.
Best, Mary > > John prev: > > > "Intellect" is a faulty label > > > for the creative symbolic manipulations which guide social > patterns. > > > The connotations (!) of intellect in our society exclude Art, which > > > Pirsig himself accords the higher archy. > > > > > Bo: > > > > > Creative symbol manipulation can hardly undermine social value.It's > > the "objective attitude that deem social morals subjective that did > that. > > > > > > John, shaking his head sadly: > > Bo, Bo, Bo. Books, movies, art. Ummm... How about "On the Road" by > Jack > Kerouac? A species of creative symbol manipulation that undermined > social > values and inspired other underminings as well. The list is > practically > endless as social patterns are scandalized by art, which then inspires > new > groupings around the art, which then become new social patterns. This > seems > so obvious that it really makes me wonder how much of the MoQ you > understand. > > > Whereas the objective literary critics who objectify society and art, > never > change anything. All they do is examine and label the de facto changes > that > the dynamic artist makes to society. Your SOL is really screwing up > your > insight. > > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
