From: Erin (macavity11@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Dec 01 2005 - 14:48:55 GMT
--- gav <gav_gc@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>
> quality is the source of reality and the continual
> migration towards it the driving force of evolution.
>
>
> this migration is the source of new static quality
> patterns.
>
> mediocrity is the opposite of quality.
>
> mediocrity brings nothing dynamic; in the absence of
> the dynamic, existing static quality patterns become
> more deeply ingrained. compulsive behaviours and
> addictions are symptomatic of this.
>
> 'kitsch' is related to mediocrity and explains this
> matter even better.
>
> from 'kitsch' at newsfilter.co.uk encyclopedia:
>
> "Broch called kitsch "the evil within the
> value-system
> of art" — that is, if true art is "good", kitsch is
> "evil". While art was creative, Broch held that
> kitsch
> depended solely on plundering creative art by
> adopting
> formulas that seek to imitate it, limiting itself to
> conventions and demanding a totalitarianism of those
> recognizable conventions.....
>
> Other theorists over time have also linked kitsch to
> totalitarianism. The Czech writer Milan Kundera, in
> his book The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984),
> defined it as "the absolute denial of shit." His
> argument was that kitsch functions by excluding from
> view everything that humans find difficult to come
> to
> terms with, offering instead a sanitised view of the
> world in which "all answers are given in advance and
> preclude any questions."
>
> In its desire to paper over the complexities and
> contradictions of real life, kitsch, Kundera
> suggested, is intimately linked with
> totalitarianism.
> In a healthy democracy, diverse interest groups
> compete and negotiate with one another to produce a
> generally acceptable consensus; by contrast,
> "everything that infringes on kitsch," including
> individualism, doubt, and irony, "must be banished
> for
> life" in order for kitsch to survive. Therefore,
> Kundera wrote, "Whenever a single political movement
> corners power we find ourselves in the realm of
> totalitarian kitsch."
>
> For Kundera, "Kitsch causes two tears to flow in
> quick
> succession. The first tear says: How nice to see
> children running on the grass! The second tear says:
> How nice to be moved, together with all mankind, by
> children running on the grass! It is the second tear
> that makes kitsch kitsch.""
>
> kitsch is false quality, quality's evil twin.
> the ubiquity of kitsch in TV, movies, politics,
> advertising, books etc is evident, if you are
> familiar
> with its opposite.
>
> our consumer culture is based on kitsch. hence
> stasis,
> stagnation...the atrophication of the quality
> sense....
> oh and for platt: communism is totalitarian kitsch
> as
> well mate. just a bit less subtle. a bit.
>
> in brisbane (my home city) a city of two million
> nearly all arts funding goes to government
> affiliated
> organisations. universities are predictably stagnant
> aswell.
>
> this is why bill hicks was right. all people in
> advertising and marketing should kill themselves. no
> seriously.
>
> hmmm
>
>
Your obviously selling something here and upset
everybody is not buying it so maybe take your own
advice? otherwise your just like a drug dealer who
isn't stupid enough to take drugs.
hmmm
erin
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