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NL888 Posted 12 years ago
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Celebrate being hard to listen?
Does "celebrate being hard to listen to and hard to look at" mean "praise the music that is harsh to our ears and praise the art that is a torture to our eyes"?
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As a society we seem drawn not to harmony but to conflict. The media is partly to blame, but the media only
plays to the public's desires. On the evening news you are likely to hear of multicar crackups, destructive hurricanes, violent crimes, messy celebrity divorces, and yes, raucous school board debates over the teaching of evolution. You are not likely to hear much about the coming together of neighborhood groups of different faiths to try to solve community problems, nor about lifelong atheist Anthony Flew becoming a believer, and certainly not about theistic evolution or the double rainbow seen over the city this afternoon. We love conflict and discord, and the harsher the better. In academia, the serious music and art produced by members of the faculty seem to celebrate being hard to listen to and hard to look at. Harmony is boring.
Context:
As a society we seem drawn not to harmony but to conflict. The media is partly to blame, but the media only
plays to the public's desires. On the evening news you are likely to hear of multicar crackups, destructive hurricanes, violent crimes, messy celebrity divorces, and yes, raucous school board debates over the teaching of evolution. You are not likely to hear much about the coming together of neighborhood groups of different faiths to try to solve community problems, nor about lifelong atheist Anthony Flew becoming a believer, and certainly not about theistic evolution or the double rainbow seen over the city this afternoon. We love conflict and discord, and the harsher the better. In academia, the serious music and art produced by members of the faculty seem to celebrate being hard to listen to and hard to look at. Harmony is boring.
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NL888 Does "celebrate being hard to listen to and hard to look at" mean "praise the music that is harsh to our ears and praise the art that is a torture to our eyes"? That is 'unattractive', yes.
- NL888 Does "celebrate being hard to listen to and hard to look at" mean "praise the music that is harsh to our ears and praise the art that is a torture to our eyes"?
- That is 'unattractive', yes.
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NL888Does "celebrate being hard to listen to and hard to look at" mean "praise the music that is harsh to our ears and praise the art that is a torture to our eyes"?That is 'unattractive', yes.
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