> I don't see this as particularly contemporary. The example that most
> readily comes to mind is one I used in class yesterday: the painting of
> Napoleon portraying himself as a healer of his sick men who were actually
> executed so as not to slow down his campaign. I'm sure we can all come up
> with many others from many different times & places.
>
> PS: you forgot to mention Clinton's now famous: "I did not have sex with
> that woman..."
Hi Louise (with an 'e') ;-)
I didn't mean to imply that it hasn't been going on in the past, - probably
for millennia, - just that with modern media, it's hotted up, and it's now that
we are alive and dealing with it.
What an interesting example re Napoleon. I didn't know that.
And I also forgot to mention Hakim Bey's 'poetic terrorism', which deliberately
attempts to create subversive parallel 'histories', like saying that the ancient
Irish were really once Moslems , as proven by the kufic script on the Irish stone
monuments.
And there is that 'Celtic Priestess' who finds 'Celtic' rock art in California.
As there is no such thing as art, only artists, and therefore an artist can declare
any aspect of existence to be art, then, if there is no such thing as the past, but
only competing stories, anybody can make up their own, if they so wish ?
Naah. I can't accept that. I think the evidence matters. It may be impossible to get
a correct and accurate explanation for the events which produced the evidence,
but it's worth trying to get as close as we can.
Chris.
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~chrislees/tao.index.html
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