Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 10:05:29 -0800
From: Ariosto Raggo <df803-AT-freenet.carleton.ca>
Subject: Re: How's your Weltanschauung hanging?


ann klefstad wrote:
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> And it's just this sort of "fictional" Weltanschauung that tends to make me
> nervous. I don't really trust the creations of ego to be in the best
> interests of all. I don't like art that plays this role.
> 
> In times of uncertainty and change i think people either look nostalgically to the past or in a utopian manner to a "better" world. The longing for the Next Level and is it any different from the rage for the new ? And yet how to go about localising one's interest in the dynamic now of the everyday ? hard questions for me because there does seem to be an approach to art which is escapist and prevents one from seeing the value of mundane life. The glossy and flashy site of the cult is a good ad or what is the same good artwork. But yet I suspect it is impossible to be in a rhetoric free position and so in a "pure" state -- more illusions.

Ariosto



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