--- Jerry Monaco <monacojerry at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> We live in a "world" without narrative meaning.
How do you know?
Art helps us to invent meaning to
> deceive ourselves
> that we don't have this suspicion about life.
How do you know?
>
> JM: Again, I just don't think that beauty and
> pleasure has a "truth
> value" and much of art is about beauty. This is the
> old Platonic
> fallacy about beauty. A mushroom cloud is not art.
> If you wish to
> talk about the terrifying beauty of some landscapes,
> say the Grand
> Canyon, I am willing to entertain speculations on
> the relation of such
> "natural" beauty to art. A mushroom cloud has
> terrifying beauty.
> There is some terrifying beauty in the Marquis de
> Sade and Dostoevsky
> also. Homer's _Iliad_ is a terrifying, bloody,
> selfish, even
> alienating beauty to me. It is still great are as
> far as I am
> concerned. I think there is as much lies as truth
> here.
I can't figure out what any of this has to do with anything. Why shouldn't the beauty of an atomic bomb have a truth value?
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