Incandescence

I can't follow your arguments because, as people bring up points, you tend to contradict yourself. I've gone through this thread, and I can't piece together any kind of cohesive ...

Perhaps it was this: art doesn't exist. that had me confused.

I guess it was so cluttered up in the earlier posts I may have missed it. Feel free to clearly define your argument for everyone.

Get over yourself. I had an urge to go crap. That isn't art. Art is the work that is produced from the urge, and its value as artistic is how ...

I said art was based on tradition. You said it isn't. The one who refutes the initial argument has the burden of proof.

Qi -- the burden of proof is on you, sir. If you can't refute my argument, feel free to say, "Of course, Brad, you're right."

Violent Porn is not 'violent'. It portrays people performing sexual acts in a violent fashion, but in order to be posted on the internet, it must be between consenting adults. ...

Wal-Mart itself poses a hegemonical problem to Western Capitalism.

No, Qi, it doesn't. An urge is not 'art'.

Furthermore, President Bush has no obligation to New Orleans -- he has an obligation to the United States of America. All Katrina revealed was a breakdown at the lowest form ...

long.long.long.long. long.long.long.long. long.long.long.long. Too few linebreaks and periods, too long, and I stopped caring (and wasn't given a reason to otherwise) after stanza 387. brad

Why do you watch TV if it is totally devoid of "news"?

And since the urge to write constitutes something as 'art'...

I wrote it as an espression of angst and regret. How you percieve it is your own business.

Modern art makes itself by breaking away from tradition. Modern art has nothing to do with culture or tradition, therefore, is not art. You don't see that Modern Art defines ...