"It seems to me that to organize on the basis of feeding people or righting social injustice and all that is very valuable. But to rally people around the idea of modernism, modernity, or something is simply silly. I mean, I don't know what kind of a cause that is, to be up to date. I think it ultimately leads to fashion and snobbery and I'm against it."
Jack Levine: January 3, 1915 – November 8, 2010
LEVEL BILLIONAIRES OUT OF EXISTENCE
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
Fun Times
I'm told there is a tantrum going on over what I wrote today - getting it all wrong. As dear Emily Dickinson said, I shall not live in vain.
Could be worse. At Salon they're defending bodice-rippers and pulp fiction and denigrating "literature" while saying Shakespeare was just a popular playwright.
I despair of the enlightenment the internet is bringing.
The Unlightenment. The lite-en ment. The Bright-enment (as in that winning fad proposed by such geniuses as Daniel Dennett for atheists to call themselves "The Brights") The Blight-enment, Benightenment, Slightenment,.....
I think that it's all a form of Simelety, the spite-enment. Really, I think that Noel Coward quote predicted it, only among people with more class, talent and intelligence such as he ran with.
Could be worse. At Salon they're defending bodice-rippers and pulp fiction and denigrating "literature" while saying Shakespeare was just a popular playwright.
ReplyDeleteI despair of the enlightenment the internet is bringing.
The Unlightenment. The lite-en ment. The Bright-enment (as in that winning fad proposed by such geniuses as Daniel Dennett for atheists to call themselves "The Brights") The Blight-enment, Benightenment, Slightenment,.....
ReplyDeleteI think that it's all a form of Simelety, the spite-enment. Really, I think that Noel Coward quote predicted it, only among people with more class, talent and intelligence such as he ran with.