crossing the line

A new modern art exhibition by collector Charles Saatchi has been given a parental guidance warning.

I had a discussion with some about naming things. Why do people insist in calling their group of intimates ‘family’? To extend that discussion; Why do homosexual people insist on calling themselves ‘gay’? Is it because they know that they do not have what the word designates but they think that by some magic, in naming themselves what they want they will have it? Earning the right to have what is desired has always been the recognized way of obtaining what is wanted. We will never get what we want in a relationship with an other person if we rip their veil off; we have to earn their trust to get what we really want. Everyone knows that a million dollars means something very different to someone who has worked for it and earned it than to someone who wins it or otherwise controls it without having put some personal effort into it. See there we go again “win” a million. Why use the word “win”?

Art is art. Music is music. A rose by any other name is a rose.

Sound that is not music is not music even if the whole world spends their last nickel to buy it in the name of music. Something that is not art is still not art even if the would world calls it art.

Why not call a spade a spade? Why not call garbage, garbage? While I pity Charles S and would defame him if I could I am more worried about the ‘world’ that views what he puts on their plate. There is an old computer saying that I don’t hear so much any more but it is still most applicable GIGO (garbage in garbage out). The world devours Charles bill of fare and what are they going to regurgitate? More pollution.

There are a whole lot of people worried about world pollution and rightly so … when are we going to start worrying about moral pollution? There is good and there is bad and Charles has crossed the line.