The Reith lectures start tomorrow, given this year by Grayson Perry, who is being interviewed on TV as I write. He talks very persuasively about this sort of thing.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00729d9 B > On 14 Oct 2013, at 22:11, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. -- 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.
