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myrnova wrote:In my opinion it is just you that have a conservative point of view. For example, fascists consider western art "the non plus ultra of human perfection" and such bullshit, tend to mock conceptual art... etc.

How stuffy of me to require that the talent have talent!

http://timerime.com/user_files/161/161554/media/duchamp-mona-lisa.gif Or maybe It is just you that lack the cultural background to understand that both the above "mona lisa" are "art"? The difference between you and me is this: you consider conceptual art "shit". I consider modern music "art", but ...

Irrelevant, we were talking about art as beauty, as per YOUR post. Nice try.

The problem is people keep trying to define shit, when they should just be enjoying it. It was this desire to over-conceputalise visual art that has basically killed it. If you want to see artistic things today, that last place you should look is a modern art museum. That is just because you follow...

The problem is people keep trying to define shit, when they should just be enjoying it. It was this desire to over-conceputalise visual art that has basically killed it. If you want to see artistic things today, that last place you should look is a modern art museum.

for me it is not music, but just a cultural niche, conceptual art, "art of manipulating timbre and noises", "sound collage", whatever. Not music. You sound like my mother that one time I made the mistake to take her to a Modern Art exhibition: "Oh this is not art! I can't even recognize the shapes ...

Funken wrote:Marx and Engels explained that the bourgeois family was a product of capitalism, and a tool by which capitalism was propagated. Of course the family would change in a socialist society. So would education.

Thank you, again, for confirming what I wrote.

Easy! Point 3: "Abolition of all right of inheritance." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Communist_Manifesto#II._Proletarians_and_Communists) That's right, Marxy Marx wanted to deny you your right to leave anything behind for your children. This was part of his wider goal to dissolve the family uni...

You're right, intellectual rigor is so tiresome.

I'm a fool, I know, but I wanted that damn Whisky!

Only Marxists understand the subjective factor in history. Actually, I'm quite sure that you would exaggerate the importance of the subjective factor most of the time. Yet at the same time you cling to 'absolutes' such as 'human nature' and the 'naturalness' of capitalism. If you tried to analyse h...

Did you not just agree that some evils are necessary?

Like Mohammed with Aisha, I purchased her when she was six, and consummated our God-sanctioned union when she was 9.

"Evil is necessary" - Funken the Marxist