Hi all,
On Fri, 29 Mar 2013 12:17:30 +0300
Shlomi Fish <shlomif(a)shlomifish.org> wrote:
Hi all,
On Thu, 28 Mar 2013 11:01:54 -0400
Carol Moore DC <carolmooredc(a)verizon.net> wrote:
(Kiddie porn and Network/Cable and internet porn
depicting torturers and
cannibals at play, especially on female bodies, really has to be
eliminated but do we really want the violent state to do it?? Boycott
NBC's new HANNIBAL show for starters. UGH!!)
I personally don't think that any content, however deemed inappropriate is a
sufficient reason, for enacting censorships, or using Artificial
Ultra-Stupidity (UAS) to try to filter it. While Alice Cooper
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper ) is pretty mainstream and
respected today, back when he started he was considered very bad culture - see
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNYI3iINXrQ ("Sam the Eagle vs. Alice Cooper").
Similarly, the early
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python work was
considered very bad form, profane, and rebellious, and now
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cleese is a British Knight ("Sir John
Cleese").
I seem to have mispoke as Cleese does not appear to be a knight (at least not
yet), but nevertheless Monty Python is now considered important,
inspirational, and as very cutting edge comedy at the time (and still quite
fresh today), and now appears mostly innocent (except naturally for
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python%27s_The_Meaning_of_Life , which I
still consider as bad form).
Sorry for my mistake.
Regards,
-- Shlomi Fish
Thing is - provocative art pushes the limit of what we consider "moral" or
even "ethical", and I hope it's for the best -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfection :
<<<<
The parallel existence of two concepts of perfection, one strict
("perfection," as such) and the other loose ("excellence"), has given
rise —
perhaps since antiquity but certainly since the Renaissance — to a singular
paradox: that the greatest perfection is imperfection. This was formulated by
Lucilio Vanini (1585–1619), who had a precursor in the 16th-century writer
Joseph Juste Scaliger, and they in turn referred to the ancient philosopher
Empedocles. Their argument, as given by the first two, was that if the world
were perfect, it could not improve and so would lack "true perfection," which
depends on progress.
>>>
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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