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art. Honest. and waffling, obviously.
Mar. 25th, 2003 06:32 pmSomeone once said to me "there are more important things in life than money". Which is in one sense true and an important lesson for the greedy, and in another sense is total bollocks. Money in our society is like oxygen. Or water. Or food. I.E. it is a necessary resource to carry on living the way you are.
Or to put it another way: while you have enough of it, acquiring more is not immediatly useful, but when you dont have enough then acquiring more is a lifestyle critical activity.
Another person once said to me "you shouldnt judge people". Which in one sense is also total bollocks, and in another sense is er, absolute bollocks. Judgement is not just a useful attribute when dealing with boy bands, its also an absolutely essential tool to deal with everyday life. EG: how far away and how fast moving is that car? An absolutely essential question every day. How honest is that politician? An important question every time one of them is on the news (hint, the answer is usually 'not at all'). Anyway... making a relatively large mental effort to avoid the politics rant...
What the person probably meant was "you should not allow irrelevant factors like a persons appearance, ability to spell, or taste in music to sway your assessment of their value as an individual/ moral being / useful corporate monkey etc." or something like that. Which is fair enough, but I would never have guessed that without using my own guess what? Yep, judgement.
anyway, now that I've waffled on for so many characters justifying the judging of things I will probably have to reply to my own post to get to the point, which I would like to be a discussion of how to judge art without bias. Except towards things with feathers, obviously.
Or to put it another way: while you have enough of it, acquiring more is not immediatly useful, but when you dont have enough then acquiring more is a lifestyle critical activity.
Another person once said to me "you shouldnt judge people". Which in one sense is also total bollocks, and in another sense is er, absolute bollocks. Judgement is not just a useful attribute when dealing with boy bands, its also an absolutely essential tool to deal with everyday life. EG: how far away and how fast moving is that car? An absolutely essential question every day. How honest is that politician? An important question every time one of them is on the news (hint, the answer is usually 'not at all'). Anyway... making a relatively large mental effort to avoid the politics rant...
What the person probably meant was "you should not allow irrelevant factors like a persons appearance, ability to spell, or taste in music to sway your assessment of their value as an individual/ moral being / useful corporate monkey etc." or something like that. Which is fair enough, but I would never have guessed that without using my own guess what? Yep, judgement.
anyway, now that I've waffled on for so many characters justifying the judging of things I will probably have to reply to my own post to get to the point, which I would like to be a discussion of how to judge art without bias. Except towards things with feathers, obviously.
