M&D truthtelling, history & I.F. Stone

[Steven Maas (CUTR)]

Tom Hickey wrote in reply to Sojourner:
> I'm curious: how do you feel about live theatre or music?  does putting
> something onto some sort of video or projection screen automatically make
> them less intellectually challenging? or can ALL of the performing arts be
> dismissed as easily as television because they are passive activities?
> because all people do is view them or _listen_ to them (another passive
> verb).  Is literature the Queen of the Arts after all simply because the
> density of symbols that require decrypting is so high?

> Is the best television program still worse than the worst book?

And even beyond "the Arts." It seems that Sojourner's blanket condemnation
would have to extend to other activities: people-watching or observing
other animals at least.  It'd be awful hard to convince me that these
activities are inferior to readin' a book, especially a trashy one.

	Steve Maas