On 14 Oct 2013, at 20:02, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > > Spending [Canadian] Thanksgiving browsing the intertubes and found this ... > > "Sometimes I wish I possessed the requisite attention span to absorb > endless amounts of totally pointless bullshit." > > http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/im-sick-of-pretending-i-dont-get-art/ >
It's perfectly OK not to 'get' Art - it's a difficult subject, and it takes effort. I don't understand quantum physics, but if I wrote a blog mocking the people who practise it, and those who make an effort to understand it, I'd be a yahoo, making a public arse of myself. When there's something I don't get, which many other intelligent people obviously do, then instead of retreating into the small-minded ignorance of the Daily Mail reader or Fox News viewer I try to figure it out. If I've made a fair effort, as this chap claims to have done, and I still don't get it, then I reconcile myself to my own ignorance rather than flinging insults at it, and at them, like a gibbon flinging shit through the bars of its cage. The very process of trying to understand difficult things can be its own reward, and I find it very satisfying, even when I fail, because I always end up better off than when I started. 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.
