From: Mark Steven Heyman (markheyman@infoproconsulting.com)
Date: Thu Mar 24 2005 - 16:44:35 GMT
Hi all,
Interesting, isn't it, how Ham and Platt have now overtly joined
hands in their neverending battle against the forces of Darkness? I
believe I was the first to comment on Ham's web site when he invited
all of us to read and become enlightened by those lofty pages, and
their words of Design and Creation, and their images of beautifully
waving American flags. At that time I was happy to point out that my
friend Platt (who at least has a sense of humor) would no longer have
to tread alone the path to righteous awareness.
In his last post, as in others before, Ham shows himself to be a
master of the Platteral Shift:
"Why this great outpouring of antipathy to someone's defense of the
classics? Does Platt or Ham represent a threat to your values simply
because we've derived much enjoyment -- and perhaps enhanced our
esthetic sensibilities in the process -- from a more highly developed
art form than punk rock? "
msh:
So closely matched, our beloved Twin Arbiters of Taste! Of course
anyone following this thread knows perfectly well that no one is
attempting to devalue the classics. The classics, whatever THEY are,
are not under attack. Whatever antipathy the TATs are experiencing
(most of it inflated if not imaginary) is due to their relentless
insistence that their personal intellectual and esthetic
sensibilities are more highly developed because they prefer Dickens
to David Foster Wallace, Beethoven to the Beastie Boys.
You see, what they are doing is telling others what is good, and what
is not good. And, really, need we ask anyone to tell us these
things?
What's sad, and at the same time very funny, is that neither Ham nor
my friend Platt seems even slightly embarrassed by their self-
proclaimed superiority in this regard. It should be obvious that
anyone who can experience excellence ACROSS intellectual and artistic
genres will more often be nourished beneath the Sun of Quality.
Best to all,
Mark Steven Heyman (msh)
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