After a thorough skimming, the word "hogwash" come to mind.
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<http://www.hamiltonstone.org>*The Perfection of Mozart's Third Eye and
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*Theory of Harmony*
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G(e)nome*
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On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Jeffrey Side <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> “Entitlements: Post-Modernity, Capitalism, and the Threat to Poetry's
> History” by Adam Filed at The Argotist Online:
> http://www.argotistonline.co.uk/Fieled%20essay%204.htm
> Excerpt:
> The flimsy history created by post-modernity contrives to impose an
> intimidating veneer; but a lack of real engagement with history creates a
> sense of the ephemeral which, if not embraced, (and post-modernists do
> express consonance with the “ephemeral” as such) must be rejected
> absolutely. Many post-modern equations are simple: “incorporate or perish”
> is one. What, beyond creating an imposing veneer, constitutes post-modern
> “incorporation”? Nothing. Post-modernists, for what’s often an obvious
> reason, feel entitled to stop at the surface; the reason is that a
> persistent sense of entitlement inhibits and destroys human depth.
> Deprivation often engenders depth— if you have never been deprived, it is
> difficult to imagine a need for depth. And if you espouse and embrace
> Marxist levels of material engagement, but fail to connect them to your own
> existence and begin to take some personal responsibility for it, you become
> a kind of sham factory owner. Anyone in the arts who has not inherited funds
> the way that you have becomes an underling. Underlings can be brushed aside;
> what begins as warped Marxism becomes straightforward Darwinian obduracy.
> Simply put, the arts aren’t fair, and they never have been. What
> post-modernity imposes is a context in which there is not only no justice in
> who “gets in,” there is no justice in what they feel they are entitled to do
> when/if they do get in. What do they feel entitled to do, more often than
> not?
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