Arlo and John

> 5 jun 2014 kl. 17:19 skrev ARLO JAMES BENSINGER JR <[email protected]>:
> 
> [John]
> Well clearly I was being ironic.  I don't think that differentiaion is bad. 
> 
> [Arlo]
> Who said "differentiation is bad"? What you're doing is the reductio ad 
> absurdum, by suggesting that because Pirsig sought to fuse classical and 
> romantic modes of thinking (the result of SOM) into one, that ALL forms of 
> difference (e.g. you suggested "night and day" and "male and female") are 
> useless.
> 
> 
> [John]
> Just to be clear, Arlo, are you saying the concept "art" ought to be 
> eliminated?
> 
> [Arlo]
> "Art" is high-quality endeavor. I've said this repeatedly. Why would you 
> suggest I want to "eliminate" the concept? "Art" suffers under the 
> classic/romantic schism, and, like Pirsig, I hold that uniting these RESCUES 
> 'art'.
> 
> [John]
> You think that would make everybody more artistic in their academic and and 
> economic production?
> 
> [Arlo]
> Like Pirsig, I think expanding the concept of "art" to apply equally to 
> motorcycle repair and painting make all forms of human activity potentially 
> better. Yes, I think both academics and business professionals benefit from 
> an understanding that unites (classical) 'science' and (romantic) 'art'.
> 
> [John]
> You really think it would help us if we just eliminated all art classed, and 
> then remove the name so we won't miss it?
> 
> [Arlo]
> Again, this is absurd. But, on the level of terminology, why not rename 'art 
> classes' to just say the activity? "Painting 101", "An Introduction to 
> Sculpture", "Music in the Middle Ages". Then we could have classes like "The 
> Art of Painting", "The Art of Rhetoric", "The Art of Rationality", "The Art 
> of Motorcycle Repair".

Don't forget "The Art of Losing Control" (aka the bus ticket to Nirvana City).



> 
> But, here, I suggest you read Doorly. And Ant has already given you Doorly's 
> way of approaching the terminology.
> 
> [John]
> Since sculpture is the same as rotisserie assembly and motorcycle 
> maintenance, then we don't need separate terms so lets just call it all what 
> it is.
> 
> [Arlo]
> Sculpting with clay, assembling a rotisserie, and repairing a motorcycle 
> require both domain specific knowledge and an awareness that the patterns you 
> are working on are in harmony with yourself and everything else. You continue 
> to suggest that by uniting classical and romantic separations that anyone can 
> do anything. Expertise derives from care, which derives from both an 
> understanding of the historically accumulated knowledge on that activity AND 
> an appreciation/awareness of immediate Quality. In LILA terms, you need BOTH 
> static and Dynamic Quality. 

Right on, Arlo


Jan-Anders

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