"Sorry about that. I'm using a rather old theme and it lacks the 'ask me' option. Probably should update soon. If you have any theme suggestions say the word! Re: the quote - he reiterated in various settings. I'm not sure off-hand which book or periodical it's in originally, but I'll have more time in early 2011 to look further and confirm. Here's a good Playboy interview in which he delves into it a bit: http://records.viu.ca/~soules/... Thanks! Great blog btw"
- Chris Weige
"The most conventional of modernist conventions has been the need to shock and offend, doing so by "transgressing boundaries." Salman Rushdie has lamented how lame and predictable transgressive art has become: "Once the new was shocking, not because it set out to shock, but because it set out to be new. Now, all too often, the shock is the new. And shock, in our jaded culture, wears off easily." Where does that leave the artist or curator who wants to shake things up? According to Rushdie, he "must try harder and harder, go further and further, and this escalation may now have become the worst kind of artistic self-indulgence." Not only is it self-indulgent, it's self-defeating. Things are so far gone that shock rarely registers in the first place. This is the natural result of artists using up the public's reservoir of indignation."
- Adriano
from Bookmarklet
Hard sell, the usual marketing from the spectacle machinery (which didn't change at all). Follow the money and the false L/R paradigm...and of course who benefits? One can tell everything about a person by how they treat their waiters.
- Chris Weige
It's a steady stream of propaganda and falsehoods on both sides, though not all Dems/Repubs are involved in the direct application of culture shocks / social engineering / brainwashing. I think one who chooses (or is installed) as a leader should at least have a backbone and a tongue that isn't forked. The failures are deliberate whether they be in education, economics, or elections.
- Chris Weige
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- Chris Weige