tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407817413258733695.post5548014482082224406..comments2024-03-28T23:24:22.359-07:00Comments on Lone Star Parson: Art PhilosophyLSPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08120630078039958644noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407817413258733695.post-63354477482050197762020-09-20T14:12:14.774-07:002020-09-20T14:12:14.774-07:00"Those ancients couldn't sculpt worth a h..."Those ancients couldn't sculpt worth a hoot."<br /><br />Pewster, you're starting to sound a lot like Fredd, which is a very fine thing :)LSPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08120630078039958644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407817413258733695.post-47528112413591679282020-09-19T18:31:23.924-07:002020-09-19T18:31:23.924-07:00Those ancients couldn't sculpt worth a hoot. T...Those ancients couldn't sculpt worth a hoot. Their philosophies and religions were just as bad. Just the opinion of some fool who artistically dated a philosophy major once. Undergroundpewsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10182191422663119484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407817413258733695.post-56657354105765652802020-09-19T07:28:45.631-07:002020-09-19T07:28:45.631-07:00Good call, Anon. There is a consistency and humans...Good call, Anon. There is a consistency and humans are, well, humans. You can make too much of the "radically other" aspect and before you know it you can't know anything. With that in mind, whole generations of philosophy students deserve a full tuition refund.<br /><br />As for Pitt Rivers... grrr. I used to love that exhibit.LSPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08120630078039958644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407817413258733695.post-90956435578056786812020-09-19T07:19:25.872-07:002020-09-19T07:19:25.872-07:00Must get moar and betur copy editers, Anonymous. Must get moar and betur copy editers, Anonymous. LSPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08120630078039958644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407817413258733695.post-55067884877015631972020-09-19T03:55:39.287-07:002020-09-19T03:55:39.287-07:00LSP
The thing that struck me was the … consistenc...<br />LSP<br /><br />The thing that struck me was the … consistency of how humans portray humans.<br /><br />Compare/contrast those, statues throughout the ages, and even effigies on medieval knights tombs. they’re crude, weathered and worn, but you can immediately ‘understand’ what is being depicted.<br /><br />Now look at (Australian) aborigines depictions of humans in art. Unless someone tells you that that is supposed to be a human, you just wont see it. (Our crude ‘stick figures’ are as incomprehensible to aborigines until told what they signify).<br /><br />I find it ‘interesting’ that we can almost guarantee that we and they, across the millennia, saw the world in similar ways.<br /><br />I have no idea (and doubt whether the archaeologists do either) what they really represented or were used for, but isn’t it worth noting that (minus the lens of environment, culture, experience and education) we’re all mostly ‘still the same’? (Although what it says of the ancestry of the aborigines is beyond me).<br /><br />As to Oxford's Pitt Rivers museum it (and the Ashmolean and the rest) are simply following the (predictable) PC script. The could care less about 'racism' (except when openly displaying their own 'reverse'), what they care about is only showing the 'good' sides of every culture but our own (and only showing the alleged bad sides of that of course).<br /><br />I believe 'it will pass', my only hope is that 'they' don't become more like their idols (islam) and destroy that history for posterity.<br /><br />I do, at times, wonder just what kind of mental gymnastics (or pathology) it requires to 'hate' colonialism (with its negatives to be sure, but overall benefits to all affected) and yet to laud (even worship), excuse and explain away the 'religious', cultural, spiritual and 'respect' aspects of 'killing anyone not of the tribe, shrinking their heads and eating their brains'.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407817413258733695.post-36324193775695631522020-09-18T23:18:01.499-07:002020-09-18T23:18:01.499-07:00"archeologists [sic] would roll their eyes, s..."archeologists [sic] would roll their eyes, snort into their lattes"<br /><br />We cannot afford lattes, but we can spell.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com