M&D truthtelling, history & I.F. Stone(WAS Publisher's Weekly (fwd)

[Ted Samsel]

slothrop sez:
> 
> Finally a note of nuance to this increasingly boring I'm right-you're wrong binary
> slamfest, when...
> 
> Tom asked 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?
> >
 Along those lines, then the only "good" art form would be one like the
religious pageants still seen in RC/etc countries where everyone
participates out of religious (or other) obligation. I've been to
such fiestas in Mexico where a whole city (or most of it) is 
divided up into Moors, Christians, Romans, Indios, Turks, etc. This
was a multi-celebratory thang, celebrating the Beheading of Juan 
Bautista AND (!!) the Battle of Lepanto. Foax running around with
black-powder zipguns, blood streaming from their ears from explosions
and all in full costume for this extravaganza.

A hell of a lot of fun, though.

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