[Platt] If by elitist you mean someone who discriminates between good and bad art, then proudly accept the label. I certainly do not consider my amateur art to be as good as that of Tom Benton or Andrew Wyeth. In fact, compared to them I'm awful.
[Arlo] Who doesn't "discriminate", Platt? Are you suggesting that only "approved" art enter the public sphere? [Platt] I notice you ignored the quote that described the role of social quality in keeping biological pleasures in their proper place. Worth repeating: [Arlo] I'm not ignoring it. I said its clear what Pirsig had said about the "moral revolution", since that is the topic at hand. "The Hippie revolution of the sixties was a moral revolution against both society and intellectuality." "Phaedrus thought that this Hippie revolution could have been almost as much an advance over the intellectual twenties as the twenties had been over the social 1890s..." "The revolutionaries of the sixties thought that since both are anti-social, and since both are anti-intellectual, why then they must both be the same. That was the mistake." Whatever Pirsig said elsewhere, the "moral revolution" of the hippies was against both society AND intellectuality. 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.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
