(FB 1543537043 Timestamp) ON THE VALUE OF ART TO THE ARTIST AND CONSUMER by Tim Beckley-Spillane As Curt has pointed out, metaphor and allegory are adopted for their economy. Artists use them as a means of conveying subjective experiences that are much too complex and intricate to communicate in toto. The mystifying element of art is simply a necessary consequence of the shorthand approach employed in its creation, and so it can’t actually be demystified because it’s a message presented in incomplete, non-operational, non-scientific language, and therefore the exact intention and experience of the artist cannot be extracted from it. The imprecision of a fortunately rendered artwork can inspire a great deal of intellectual stimulation however, and it’s in this that great art gains much of its value. The greater the intellect of the consumer, the better equipped he is to connect the dots, to imaginatively exhaust all of the possibilities presented in the artwork (which are, of course, endless), the greater the value he finds in it. Imprecision also necessitates interaction, unification of thought and experience, which is the ultimate end that the successful artist achieves by means of his art. In other words, the ultimate aim of artistic production is not the work itself, but the exchange it mediates between the artist and consumer, which can continue as long as the artwork survives. As the great novelist James Joyce said of his masterpiece, Ulysses, “I’ve put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that’s the only way of insuring one’s immortality.”
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1543539018 Timestamp) —“During my commute I’ve been listening to various interviews you’ve done. Really really well done. You’re best mode is conversation by far. And holy fuck, you’re a smarter guy than i realized. I’m embarrassed I didn’t notice the depth of it before. Hahahah”— A Friend So in person I’m kind and charming, in video interviews I’m smart and deep, and online I’m a dick and shallow? Is that what I’m supposed to take from this??? Lolz.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1543537043 Timestamp) ON THE VALUE OF ART TO THE ARTIST AND CONSUMER by Tim Beckley-Spillane As Curt has pointed out, metaphor and allegory are adopted for their economy. Artists use them as a means of conveying subjective experiences that are much too complex and intricate to communicate in toto. The mystifying element of art is simply a necessary consequence of the shorthand approach employed in its creation, and so it can’t actually be demystified because it’s a message presented in incomplete, non-operational, non-scientific language, and therefore the exact intention and experience of the artist cannot be extracted from it. The imprecision of a fortunately rendered artwork can inspire a great deal of intellectual stimulation however, and it’s in this that great art gains much of its value. The greater the intellect of the consumer, the better equipped he is to connect the dots, to imaginatively exhaust all of the possibilities presented in the artwork (which are, of course, endless), the greater the value he finds in it. Imprecision also necessitates interaction, unification of thought and experience, which is the ultimate end that the successful artist achieves by means of his art. In other words, the ultimate aim of artistic production is not the work itself, but the exchange it mediates between the artist and consumer, which can continue as long as the artwork survives. As the great novelist James Joyce said of his masterpiece, Ulysses, “I’ve put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that’s the only way of insuring one’s immortality.”
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1543600878 Timestamp) —“Personally I think a semantically commensurable language creates a problem of cost, but alas we must bear costs.”—Micah Pezdirtz
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1543600820 Timestamp) “LYING” IN THE WHITE LAW (PROPERTARIANISM) by Daniel Roland Anderson —âI (we) require you to perform due diligence before making a truth claim. In other words, we have a higher standard of not lying. This prevents people (as we do in law) from claiming ignorance.â—Curt Doolittle This is the first time Iâve seen you explain why you use the term âlieâ the way you do. Iâm glad I randomly scroll through comment sections like this looking for gold. Iâm thinking another couple paragraphs, and this is a post that resolves some angst with IQs all the way down to 95. The rest of this discussion on the relationship between truth, meaning, and lying is more important for a lot of us though because it seems to cause a lot of confusionâmore so the truth and meaning thing. INCREASE IN THE SCOPE OF LYING RESULTS FROM AN INCREASE IN THE SCOPE OF WARRANTY, DUE TO AN INCREASE IN THE SCOPE OF DUE DILIGENCE
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1543600878 Timestamp) —“Personally I think a semantically commensurable language creates a problem of cost, but alas we must bear costs.”—Micah Pezdirtz
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1543592915 Timestamp) THE COMMONS OF NOMOCRACY by Bill Joslin Nomocracy (Rule of Law) is a Commons. The forms of rule, outlined by Aristotle, describe the cycle of competition to gain a monopoly over the commons (to seize control of it). Nomocracy exists as a commons. [Nomocracy, under everyman a Sheriff (contract and criminal law separated from legislative and regulatory institutions), exists as a commons, where all contribute via participation in lawful behaviour, as well as execution of the law and all who do so reap the benefits – a type of property.)] An end to the many *-ocracies (forms of rule which monopolize law) could end civilizational cycles.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1543600820 Timestamp) “LYING” IN THE WHITE LAW (PROPERTARIANISM) by Daniel Roland Anderson —âI (we) require you to perform due diligence before making a truth claim. In other words, we have a higher standard of not lying. This prevents people (as we do in law) from claiming ignorance.â—Curt Doolittle This is the first time Iâve seen you explain why you use the term âlieâ the way you do. Iâm glad I randomly scroll through comment sections like this looking for gold. Iâm thinking another couple paragraphs, and this is a post that resolves some angst with IQs all the way down to 95. The rest of this discussion on the relationship between truth, meaning, and lying is more important for a lot of us though because it seems to cause a lot of confusionâmore so the truth and meaning thing. INCREASE IN THE SCOPE OF LYING RESULTS FROM AN INCREASE IN THE SCOPE OF WARRANTY, DUE TO AN INCREASE IN THE SCOPE OF DUE DILIGENCE
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1543591794 Timestamp) by Luan Raphael Via Positiva: Provide us with a precise description so that we can construct the experience you seek to communicate. Via Negativa: Provide us with a description so that we can constrain our imagination to that which you seek to communicate. Identity allows us to constrain our imagination so that we can construct the experience.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1543644436 Timestamp) TESTIMONY —“your work will almost certainly end up as one of the top influences in my life. This would probably be true just on the strength of Natural Law of Reciprocity and Testimonialism alone.”— A Friend (That is the core of the work. The rest is explanation and application. )