Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 09:00:53 -0800
From: { brad brace } <bbrace-AT-wiredmag.com>
Subject: Re: RHIZOME_RAW: "the art advances and the artisan recedes"


At 11:30 AM -0400 9/4/2, malgosia askanas wrote:
>> -- because that's not really behaving like a human being, it's just
>> behaving like a machine -- what you're really interested in is the artist,
>> you're interested in _people, and for people to have the opportunity to
>> live full and rewarding lives they have to be in control of what they do,
>> even if that happens to be economically less efficient.
>
>Dear Brad, are you getting senile, or am I?  Isn't accepting challenges and
>rising to them a part of "behaving like a human being" and "living a full
>and rewarding life"?  In fact, isn't making one's life "full and rewarding"
>already a response to a challenge -- the challenge of being born?  Isn't
>it precisely an instance of making something beautiful on command?  If
>a person can pick up a command as a challenge, and respond by making
>something beautiful, then, I say, all the power to them.  Whereas I would say
>that spouting the kind of nonsense you posited above is a prime example
>of not being able to rise "above", so to speak, the infantilism of the system
>we live in, of not being able to take it as a challenge and claim a piece
>of one's own ground.


Extreme competition is one of the best ways of controlling people.
Everybody is ranked. You've got to beat down the person next to you, and
just look out for yourself. Maintain "proper standards of objectivity."
It's extremely easy, dear malgosia, to be sucked into the dominant culture.



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