On Apr 7, 2012, at 11:13 AM, Bob W wrote: >> >>> sure, if you think making money out of shit is the be-all and end- >> all, >>> but his work is still shit and it will always be dismissed as shit by >>> people who know shit from shinola. >>> >>> B >> >> Bob, >> >> You and I both work in IT and myself specifically in software >> development. You don't think we've made money out of shit/shinola? >> >> I frequently think that if I could get paid the same to shovel manure >> in horse stables, I'd rather shovel manure. Because I'm basically just >> shoveling a different kind of manure every day, and it's far more >> stressful than horse-shit. > > Shovelling manure in a stable is an honest, decent job not to be looked down > on, and I expect it has its own share of stress. The family who lived in my > house in 1901 made their living working in the London Transport stables. > Working in IT is also an honest, decent job, by and large, even if we only > do it to make a living and a profit for some fat cat somewhere. > > Making money by dishonestly peddling shit as if it were something better is > not an honourable, decent job, it's taking advantage of people. Paintings > such as Thomas Kinkade's are shit glorified by his marketers and advertising > men, who are the worst kind of pimps because they push the idea that it is > on a par with work by people like Constable, or Jackson Pollock
You bit on that con job? I'm surprised. Talk about peddling shit as if it were something better. > or even > Stephen Shore, and that it's just snobbery and prejudice that makes people > like me look down on it. > > This is like telling people that Sunny Delight is as good as Puligny > Montrachet. It isn't. It appeals to the undeveloped taste of children. > Children have an excuse, but eventually they should grow up, educate their > tastes and stop liking stuff just because it tastes sugary and sparkles > brightly. Their lives will be massively richer for it. Liking Thomas > Kinkade's work is arrested development. > > B > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
