Brett

It probably is bad form to mention it, but I think you may be right.

I don’t think that’s how evolution works. It’s almost the other way around. Genes that randomly create eyes that cope with light contribute to surviva...

I think men can obviously be quite dangerous to others. Most men are not afraid of women, mentally or physically. A lot of men aren’t even afraid of e...

It’s been a long time since women ‘had’ to have children. It might be difficult for them to refuse that possibility but they have had that choice for ...

It’s obviously difficult to state what is good and what is poor art. Issues of subjectivity are impossible to argue with. And we seem to have, somehow...

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This is the crippling effect of the age; to sit around discussing his behaviour, what it indicates, what it might be, who is he really, the mitigating...

That’s an interesting point. Is life only about receiving love? Is Wallow’s mother’s love going to die with him?

A ‘country’ is defined by its borders. A group of people define themselves along cultural grounds, not by arbitrary borders. In the Middle East after ...

Then I guess what I’m trying to get at is that the idea of ‘Country’ is arbitrary. Sushi talks about ‘language borders’. You talk about culture. Sushi...

You’re being a bit tricky there. I didn’t say you wouldn’t find those elements in The Transformers. It was in reply to the scathing comment on your id...

I’m not sure that the commonality you mean really exists as it once did, in any country, even the US. So I have doubts about the idea of culture defin...

What I meant by circular, (and I wasn’t meaning just your posts, it was mine as well, and it wasn’t accusing you of being confusing), was that if we u...

As usual what you mean is I don’t go along with your thinking. Why shut down the conversation? If everything is so cut and dry then why bother taking ...

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Well put.

It’s not really a single anecdote, it’s a pattern of behaviour.

[reply="Susu;d5434 I’ve heard your story a hundred times. You’re becoming an enabler and the situation will end up as you suspect it will.

This feels a bit circular to me. The changing aspects of culture or the introduction of other cultures through immigration, is unlikely to reach a poi...

Okay. So that’s not culture, then.

Yes. A mark on a piece of paper. Abstract artists might have been trying to achieve this.

It is if we’re talking about it, though.

Because I had reconsidered my views on this subject.

Yes, so what is a country? A country is a border.

That’s what meant by everything is subjective. I was agreeing.

Yes, so to be part of a country is to take on that culture. So country is culture. But whose?

I’m confused by that.

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Copernicus’s theory is an objective fact. You said it has merit. You also said merit is subjective, not objective.

Because you said merit was subjective.

Why does Copernicus’s theory not have merit?

I was trying to establish an objective fact that we agreed on,

Is the earth circling the sun not that?

I see what you mean. I thought you meant there was no value in that process.

So what is an objective fact?

By who?

Does Copernicus’s theory have merit?

Then I guess, no insult intended, art is not something you respond to.

Oh god, here we go. That’s the theory and that’s the exploration. Does a mathematical formula have merit?

This: ‘objective merit’.

I really feel that depends on the degree of difference. I live in another country, it’s easy to assimilate because I’m hardly noticed. Everything is s...

Yes, unfortunately that’s true. Their existence somehow nullifies the possibility of there being objective merit.

But you wouldn’t regard Bay as auteur, would you? Bergman, yes.

I hate to get into one of those endless discussions, but this hasn’t been proven either way, it’s an exploration. Could a mathematical formula be rega...

Who are these elites anyway? Academics, critics, money, art galleries?

Man, your hard work. I guess I mean that originality (another subjective issue), the audacity is what makes art exciting. But maybe that’s not what ar...

I was thinking that if you were an immigrant but also a citizen would that make you feel a part of the country? Maybe that’s one experience of being p...

In some ways I think art should be elusive or rebellious. The elites always arrive after the fact, it couldn’t be any other way. Their views or opinio...