RagnaToad
Shake it like a polaroid picture

thnx i've read the rules any question i'll ask it to you :3

What do you think of Alt Country? like these guys. They are from my home state! Or these guys. (to be honest, those guys are a little too slow for my tastes, sometimes.)

My turn to ask a question.

Do you care about earning money? Like, do you want to earn $1,000,000, or would you be happy with an average salary? Moreover, would you avoid earning a very large sum of money?

What your describing in conservatives also happens in liberals. It's called being an "ideologue" - strictly following a mantra of a particular philosophy. You've probably noticed that I like free speech, but that I also have reservations about it ("nigger", "objectifying women", etc.). I think that is what having an open mind is. Just because you agree with something doesn't mean you have to agree with it fully, as (too) many do. At the same time, one can have an open mind, and by coincidence, appear as an ideologue, so it's never clear cut in itself.

I think that advertising can be a particular type of art. We don't like it now, but wait a few hundred years, just like with the chalices. Art is created for all kinds of purpose, even the purpose of non-purpose, but art all depends on someone seeing it as art. I think that it is a person's skill or proficiency which creates art. Like how a child's drawing isn't art deemed worthy enough of any accolades outside of a mother's.

So because it's been thought out, we shouldn't question it? Yes, it's unlikely to change, but we should always question.

So can advertising ever be art then?

Yeah it's always fun to question fundamental things. Like in Economics (introduction paper, I'm just taking it to make up points, really), when we were looking at the Basic Competitive Model. This includes rational behaviour, and that sort of thing. And the lecturer just described it, but I kept questioning it - testing if it was valid, for my own interest you know.

I think, if anything, we are too ready to accept simple arguments. But then again, it's easy to look to deep and miss what is right in front of ya face

That's very good. But bad if you are struggling to reach a word count, say in an essay. Though I always go over. Different sides of the same coin?

And no, I don't speak Dutch, so go ahead and share them, but they may as well not have any significance.

What is poetry?

I was just going to give you rep for your latest post in the "n i g g a" thread... but I can't. Anyhoo, the reason was going to be that you have a weird ability to be freaking concise. You must write mean summaries. I can't summarise for shit. Period. I just never got my head around it. You posts are really reader-friendly, because you say lots (read: more than me), but say it in a tenth of the words.

Uhm..

"Art is that which is, for whatever reason, beautiful."

No, I mean that something can be beautiful (and thus, 'art') as well as commercial. I mean, why not?

But what if it looks nice?

"Art is that which is, for whatever reason, beautiful."

So what if the reason is commercial?

"There has to be some passion in it. Some pride about one's work."

So graffiti is art, as long as someone has thought it about it? People who advertise also do this, so thus they are artists?

People sell art to make a living. That purpose is economic.

What about just someone scribbling their name? Is that art?

Well people construct advertising to be appealing, and to motivate. It can't be ugly, unless that's the point of the advertising. So is advertising art?

I like to think that graffiti is art, but no one really thinks it is beautiful.