Tuesday, February 16, 2010
The Enlightening Bridge Between Art And Work
NPR: "If a Martian came to Earth and tried to understand what human beings do just from reading most literature published today, he would come away with the extraordinary impression that we basically spend our time falling in love, squabbling with our families, and occasionally murdering one another. But of course, what we really do is go to work"
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I agree pretty strongly with part of this article. However, when it mentions these things of times long ago, it doesn't seem to take into account the difference in the amount of people living on Earth as much as it should. Sure, it's good to look at the microcosm sometime, as Walt Whitman did in his time but, if this is what the current youth is growing up with -- who are to be tomorrow's maturity -- then how will they begin to accommodate (in Piagetian terms) for tomorrows problems. Not to mention, it may be more so the ends which the heart fancies more than the means (unless, of course, the means are an end in and of itself). Although it does seem reasonable to do some of this, I wouldn't say get rid of the current content completely (although I'm not opposed to getting rid of the some of the self-absorbed content thats brewing nowadays).
This article is totally right we don't know as much about each item that we own. But we have a lot more things. So if we had to know as much as they knew about each thing we own it would be a lot of information. I wish that we would know more about what we own instead of just knowing that we own it and that is all. Also the article is totally right that the art in many of the homes in America does not have our work in it. I don't think I have ever walked into a home with art pertaining to the work of every day man. It would be interesting to see a home with that type of art in it.
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