needs and desires (att: Joanna)

[John Halle]

> 
> Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 22:29:11 -0800 (PST)
> From: Chuck Grimes <cgrimes at tsoft.com>
> Subject: Re: needs and desires (att: Joanna)
> 
> Art is out of excess.  The wonderful thing about art is that it IS out of
> excess and humans seem to need it still, as though it were not.  
> 
> Joanna
> - -----------
> 
> Maybe it isn't. Consider there is no such activity as art in societies
> that have not under gone extensive differentiation and
> specialization. In that context all sorts of categories that we
> consider intrinsic to culture are erased or conflated or folded into
> one another. 
> 
> BTW, I wrote a long answer to your post on jealousy that agreed with
> you, but ended by saying that there was profit to be made in envy
> because of its dry qualities--a nawing need that travelled well from
> one purchase to the next. While jealousy in its outlandish forms
> destorys social relations and therefore can not be tailored to fit and
> motivate mass consumer culture. But somewhere along the way the post
> took a dark turn into capital's need to constricted and normalize the
> bourgeois psyche, commodify it etc, etc,---and so on.
> 
> Chuck Grimes 
> 

So does this mean you oppose or endorse St. Clair and Cockburn's proposal
to abolish the NEA which I posted on last week?

John