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Renato Vinicius wrote:
>What you mean with 'elevate the human condition'? Art lovers don't commit
>murders, anger, grief, crime, jealousy, hate, betrayal, etc? Are we better
>persons because we like Classical Music? I don't think so.
I agree and I'm not sure where you got any of this from what I wrote.
What I actually wrote was:
>I need art that is striving to reach beyond the mundane, to elevate the
>human condition.
Perhaps it's my sentence structure that's confusing. Allow me to
rephrase. What I meant was that I need art that is striving to reach
beyond the mundane. I need art that striving to elevate the human
condition (specifically my condition). By that I mean that while I look
to art for insights into the world around me, I also need it to help me
transcend the everyday ugliness of human life, if only for a little while.
Will this also make me a better person? I'm willing to entertain the
possibility. But, no, I do not believe that simply listening to a certain
type of music automatically makes people either better or worse.
>I would like to suggest, so, that the human search for Art is not to elevate
>human condition, but to skip from it and all it's flatness.
Elevate. Transcend. Skip away. I think we may be saying nearly the same
thing but in different words.
Dave
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