mos1b

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by mos1b 16y ago
And you, of course, are able to perfectly identify which art is bad. You can look at a piece of art and determine that nobody anywhere will ever gain anything from it's existence. <sigh>
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by mos1b 16y ago
Woo! High Five!
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by mos1b 16y ago
Most job applicants suck. That's true with techies, with salesmen, with everything I've ever hired for. I'll happily concede that small businesses often have trouble hiring outside their founders' core competencies just because it's hard
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by mos1b 16y ago
And art has no societal or historical importance? In case you didn't notice (which you apparently didn't), my post was satire. Of course incremental progress has value, and even failure has value. (particularly if the failure occurs pub
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by mos1b 16y ago
You see this all the time with professors. So many of them sit in their offices and for years at a time create essentially nothing of value for months or years at a time. They go down paths that seem doomed to fail in an attempt to learn
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by mos1b 16y ago
It would be a comment on your interpretation of his work. It would say nothing about your opinion of the artist as a person. It would in no way say 'i look down upon the artist' or 'i am superior to the artist'.
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by mos1b 16y ago
He used hundreds of hours of his time. What makes you think he would've refrained from paying a few extra dollars for the bandwidth?
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by mos1b 16y ago
I make maple syrup by hand. It requires a huge amount of physical labor, as well as a fairly expensive evaporator and as well as a small building devoted to that single purpose. The product tastes the same as the stuff I can buy from my ne
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by mos1b 16y ago
But in either case, you're not saying "I look down on the artist."
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by mos1b 16y ago
Not every MBA is lousy and incapable of seeing the forest for the trees, even though lots of startup techs think so. Not every tech is lousy and incapable of understanding that IT needs to serve business needs, even though lots of MBAs thin
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by mos1b 16y ago
When you don't understand a piece of art, do you say that you don't understand that the artist was trying to say... or do you say "I look down upon the artist." I'm guessing you're a reasonable person and just say 'I don't get it, and don'
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by mos1b 16y ago
It's not ironic. Calling somebody an asshole isn't a positional declaration. It does not say you are better or worse than them, just that they are an asshole. Presumably you have flaws as well. Everyone does. Saying you look down on them
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by mos1b 16y ago
Let me try again: Only a supremely self-involved, judgmental, narcissistic asshole would think it's appropriate to look down on others for having different ideas about how they want to spend the short time we get on this planet. Truly, it's