Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site hou2g.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!hou2g!scott From: scott@hou2g.UUCP (Racer X) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Ken Moreau, Spider Robinson, Art, Helen Keller, and Me Message-ID: <593@hou2g.UUCP> Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 11:17:52 EDT Article-I.D.: hou2g.593 Posted: Thu Aug 15 11:17:52 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Aug-85 02:04:01 EDT References: <1153@druri.UUCP> Organization: The Finish Line Lines: 21 Oh, for cryin' out loud! Why don't you get off you goddamn soapbox, you pompous jerk. Or is it too much to lower yourself to the level of us "barbaric", "uneducated" peons? There is a clear difference between "art" and a "good read". It lies in the fact that a good read is something judged by *the reader*, according to *his/her* tastes. "Art" is too often determined by a bunch of egocentric idiots who think they know it all because they were "educated" (by a similar bunch of idiots, naturally). What the hell is art, anyway? It's usually a COMPLETELY ARBITRARY evaluation, and as such, meaningless. Art, as you seem to espouse it, differs little from the "gurus" who decide (for the world, or at least those foolhardy enough to pay attention) what colors and fashions will be "in" two years from now. Scott J. Berry