[lbo-talk] BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ released today

Dennis Claxton ddclaxton at earthlink.net
Wed Nov 14 10:36:06 PST 2007



>
> > Roger Scruton has written an aggressive, provocative, and persuasive
> > counterattack against the nihilism of modern intellectuals who would
> > repudiate the high culture of America and the West.
> >
> > - Robert H. Bork
>
>Has this guy actually read any of this "high culture"?
>
>Did Scruton's piece actually quote a single writer or cite a single
>piece of music or art? I can't say I read every word, but if it did,
>I missed it.
>
>All we are is dust in the wind, man.
>
>Doug

He mentions Duchamp. It all goes back to the urinal. But of the work he decries Duchamp is the only name he names. He mentions Brillo boxes and crucifixes pickled in urine, but can't be bothered to name Warhol and Serrano, two of the most religious artists of the past 100 years.



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