Kent Wayne

Musings

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Much like the Spartans balked at the use of arrows and the Samurai balked at the use of the gun, humans in general seem to balk at anything that questions their established rituals/beliefs.  In order to create art, however, I believe the artist must demonstrate detachment from external systems/structures.

 It is PERCEPTION that must be structured—not rituals or tools, necessarily—one’s perception must be trained to see the core spirit/meme/message in ALL traditions…and be able to reiterate it into something fresh and new.

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  1. Opher Avatar
    Opher

    Can we ever shuck off the culture and era we grew up in? It is too deeply embedded. We are all victims of our age and place.
    Having said that I alone take on the Zen of perfect being and am above all that, as Kerouac might have said back in the 50s.

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    1. Phil Huston Avatar
      Phil Huston

      Ahhh… but art is the true reflection of culture and who among us can’t resist the over sold but brilliant work of Monet? The touch of Taylor’s color, the visions of Blake and Snoop Dog’s greatest hits, zero beat and Rosetti? All things seemingly anachronistic. Time and culture superseded by that which outlives creators and appreciators alike. Art.

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      1. DirtySciFiBuddha Avatar
        DirtySciFiBuddha

        Don’t like monet, secretly like Taylor Swift, and who DOESN’T like Snoop? LOL

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    2. DirtySciFiBuddha Avatar
      DirtySciFiBuddha

      Perhaps we can or can’t…but IMHO we can navigate it so that it doesn’t hinder us

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  2. Phil Huston Avatar
    Phil Huston

    Open season on balking on Internet poetry

    https://philh52.wordpress.com/2017/05/18/wordpress-and-the-poetry-tag/

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    1. DirtySciFiBuddha Avatar
      DirtySciFiBuddha

      Thanks for the link! :0

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    2. DirtySciFiBuddha Avatar
      DirtySciFiBuddha

      (meant to do a smiley) 🙂

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  3. AngelRemedy Avatar
    AngelRemedy

    Preach

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  4. Terrant Avatar
    Terrant

    You can add how knights felt about the crossbow to the list.

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    1. DirtySciFiBuddha Avatar
      DirtySciFiBuddha

      Musta felt pretty bad after lugging around all that armor only to get pwned by a crossbow

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  5. byneilfarrell Avatar
    byneilfarrell

    This is part of the reason genre fiction can and should be so effective. It allows us to turn cultural norms into metaphors and metaphors into cultural norms – to see apparently static social constructions as the nebulous, ephemeral illusions they are. The vantage point of intellectual playgrounds like science fiction and fantasy offer more than just the chance to play elaborate tabletop games or play with aliens. Although those things are still fun.

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    1. DirtySciFiBuddha Avatar
      DirtySciFiBuddha

      yep. I call it “memetic engineering.” Within a fantastical setting, the author can stuff a bunch of ideas which will spread throughout the collective psyche.

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      1. byneilfarrell Avatar
        byneilfarrell

        That’s a very interesting frame. But the fact that there’s a word “Orwellian” is proof that the phenomenon is real. You’re onto something 😀

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      2. DirtySciFiBuddha Avatar
        DirtySciFiBuddha

        Thank you neil! I’m trying, and I’m encouraged by what seems to me the reality of everything we make having first been imagined and THEN made. So my imagination may one day be the impetus for future actualiztion. memetic engineering may one day be a college course LOL!

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