If I could figure out how to +1 or Like your response, Bob, I would. :) I'll just settle for ...
> 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. Mark! On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. -- -bmw -- 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.
