OT: Crazy Programming

[Jacob Hallen]

In article <mailman.1021921632.6771.python-list at python.org>,
David LeBlanc <whisper at oz.net> wrote:
> jacob at boris.cd.chalmers.se.cd.chalmers.se (Jacob Hallen) wrote in
> message news:<ac6lhu$j4n$1 at nyheter.chalmers.se>...
>>
>> The baroque went out of fashion over 200 years ago. Art is not merely
>> decorative and for amusement.
>
>For something so "out of fashion" why do examples cost a bazillion dollars?
>
>Art these days seems in large part to consist of anything that critics can
>be persuaded is art. There's a PBS show running currently called "Egg" that
>examines various facets of the American art scene. One recent artist they
>profiled has a work of art that consists of many strands of spagetti glued
>up into a shape that looks like a big blob of ... spagetti! In truth, some
>of the other stuff this guy did was imo artistic, but the spagetti piece was
>just old cold pasta! Another artist - Yoki Ono - has a piece that consists
>of a video tape of people cutting her clothes off of her; so called
>"performance art". If the people doing the cutting had worn jack boots and
>swastikas, we would have called it inhumane and criminal yet somehow the
>critics call it art.

Without the jack boots and swastikas it is called "lure for gullible idiots".
Witn the jack boots and swastikas it is called "beware of gullible idiots".

Jacob


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