That certainly made sense.

Wait, what the crap was he talking about?

Good shit. I've got to find more of this dude's stuff on the intertubes. Or you can, Irish, and post them here. I'll vote for them.

I hope this gets sifted, though philosophical videos don't usually garner big votes here. However all it takes is 10 votes, so there's hope.

BTW, I love your Bill Hicks videos. I love that dark, cynical fucker, may he rest in peace.

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It will be a pleasure to post more videos by the bard McKenna.

Fight culture with ART?

And I suppose you don't need a GALLERY, this monument of culture, to put your pretentious shit in either?

Artist should just get money from all those pesky plebs directly and not through CULTURE TAX SCHEMES?

Everyone should just sit in the great outdoors finger painting and starving to death.

In reply to Smugglarn.

From Aldous Huxley's 'Doors of Perception'

"I strongly suspect that most of the great knowers of Suchness paid very little attention to art... Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, or else for those resolute dead-enders, who have made up their minds to be content with the ersatz of Suchness, with symbols rather than with what they signify, with the elegantly composed recipe in lieu of actual dinner."

The last line in the video is

"Art will make us more necessary, and more incomprehensible to the 'machines'"

Well, I agree with some of the sentiments, but he's only refering to a very specific (in terms of time and place and function) culture. Appealing to the lofty concept of 'art' will always net you applause, but art is just as much a part of culture as consumerism.

The art that he is talking about isn't the commercial industry that art is today.

It is art in the sense of the chaotic imagination, the pure inspiration to put something on a blank canvas, which is the same inspiration that makes a man want to go to the moon. Art in this sense is the antithesis of culture.

It's this deeper sense of the word 'art' that Mark Twain and Aldous Huxley wrote about. To get a sense of it Aldous Huxley's 'Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell' is the book to read.

Real art is political, moving, inspiring, bewildering, emotional, carries sentiment, is powerful and is entirely and uniquely human.

I have to make clear that the bard Terence is not referring to a specific time and place and function type of culture, he is talking explicitly about all culture.

Perhaps you should define culture for me, because the way I see it, we have wildly different understandings of what it is.

I get the feeling 'culture' as it's used here is enthnocentric and very particular, and not at all covering all culture.

In any case, probably just semantics.

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