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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 22:12:11 GMT
- Organization: UC Berkeley CS Dept.
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- In article <th092g0@zola.esd.sgi.com> rmr@sgi.com (Robert M. Reimann) writes:
-
- >Have we beaten this to death yet?
-
- Thwack, thwack. Whumpa whumpa! Ooch.
-
- >curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin) writes:
- >
- >The answer is no. If the best argument you can
- >come up with is that Europeans are bloodthirsty,
- >and therefore aren't somehow justified in supporting
- >their artists, you should stop while you're ahead.
-
- Aha! But no. My argument is that supporting artists is
- an _inherently bloodthirsty act_. I brought up the
- Renaissance because fangs look sharper on a lion than
- on a pussycat; but one should not forget that they are both
- carnivores.
-
- Hopefully we have got down to the Fundamental Moral
- Disagreement, and can stop here.
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