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- From: curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin)
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Re: support for the arts in the US
- Date: 12 Dec 1992 06:11:10 GMT
- Organization: UC Berkeley CS Dept.
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- References: <td1k85o@zola.esd.sgi.com> <1g5p0cINNjf4@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Dec10.141204.13258@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
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- In article <1992Dec10.141204.13258@syma.sussex.ac.uk> mapd1@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Nigel Ling) writes:
- >
- >Well, excuse me for saying so, but this is *not* what literature is.
- >Literature is art, not necessarily what the majority prefer to read.
-
- Oh? And who are you to decide which is which?
-
- But even were it possible to define what is literature and what
- is crap, fund the former and burn the latter, we could not
- agree. We have a fundamental moral conflict, which cannot be
- resolved by argument.
-
- You believe that art has intrinsic value.
-
- I believe that art is only valuable insofar as it makes people
- happy.(*)
-
- Each of us, no doubt, is quite unable to understand how the
- other could believe something so stupid.
-
- c
- *(And I don't mean in the Norman Rockwell sense; anything you
- enjoy looking at is, by definition, making you happy.)
-