[lbo-talk] Parecon Discussion...

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

At 4:32 PM -0400 9/23/03, Michael Albert wrote:
>>shouldn't 'artists' be paid a base amount (enough to eat) with the 
>>only criteria that they produce something? and let the reaction or 
>>posterity weed out the 'undesirables'....
>
>I don't think so. By that logic I could declair myself an artist, 
>paint or sculpt or whatever -- and it is utter garbage, but it 
>fulfills my social responsibility to produce and earns me an income.
>
>Why should that be more true for painting than for airplane flying, 
>or farming, or anything else.

In the modern industrial world, one of the reasons many -- especially 
artists, whether or not they are paid to produce art -- cherish the 
idea of art is that art appears to offer a glimpse of an aspect of 
the world ungoverned by the logic of utility (be it utility for 
profit maximization or for social responsibility). . . .
-- 
Yoshie

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