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Originally Posted by Giggleton
I need to convince you that a work of art is knowledge. But how?
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beats me. I don't believe it is, at least useful knowledge. You can certainly score high on TV quiz shows though...
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When you view a painting, surely the painting alters the flow of your mind.
Below is Van Gogh's sunflowers, a meditation on the beautiful yet transitory nature of life.
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How is that flow or idea any different from the flow of any other dead nature painting out there?
I fear almost never paintings do anything for me, unlike music, movies or literature -- or indeed games. I think timed events do alter my flow better.
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Make the most of the time you have here, help others when you can.
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I'm no good samaritan. Why should I help a lazy crackhead pirating bum? People carve their own tombs, it's hopeless trying to lend them a hand when they'll use it to dig further...
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Paintings, books, reality TV, music, EVERYTHING has the ability to change your world, if you are receptive to the idea that you can be changed. I could list a thousand examples that have changed my views, but all that is needed is ONE.
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The problem is that in the old days literature used to teach about morals and thus was valued as useful knowledge. Then, as Frank Baum neatly realized in the introduction to "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz":
"Yet the old time fairy tale, having served for generations, may now be classed as "historical" in the children's library; for the time has come for a series of newer "wonder tales" in which the stereotyped genie, dwarf and fairy are eliminated, together with all the horrible and blood-curdling incidents devised by their authors to point a fearsome moral to each tale. Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident."
Spot on! That's why Wilde said "All art is quite useless" It is futile entertainment hoping not to change the world or help anyone, just offer different viewpoints and amusement. Even if you do get touched by the experience, that's not like acquiring useful knowledge.
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humanity has been creating for millions of years, perhaps longer.
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Let me guess: scientologist?
fossil record shows about 1 million years for the most primitive humans and just about 1 hundred thousand years for homo sapiens...
BTW, I very much prefer Van Gogh to cave paintings...
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All of this time creation has existed without copyright.
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yes, artistic expression will go on, money involved or not. Perhaps not as masterfully executed as by renascentist painters comissioned by patrons, perhaps not with the same level of skill and excellence as classical composers employed as servants to nobles, but it'll go on, even if just 140-chars twitter poetry, pixel-based fan art or remixed metal rap-rock by youtube jockeys. who would pay for that anyway?
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Copyright is holding our culture back!!!!!!
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It's not holding anyone from publishing their works for free AT ALL. It's just that you want everyone to comply, even ones that think their work is any worth.