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[theculturewarrior]

[quote name='Socrates' date='Aug 19 2005, 08:21 PM']It was a non-American "artist" who threw the dung.  Blaming the actions of someone in England on supposed American attitudes seems a little odd.
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Do you think an American artist would hesitate to do the same thing, if he could get the attention this guy got?

[Socrates]

[quote name='theculturewarrior' date='Aug 19 2005, 08:28 PM']Revisionism is this: A feminist professor does not like the Song of Solomon, because when he describes his bride's breasts as ivory towers, or her teeth as a flock of sheep, she feels the poet is "dismembering," the female body, and therefore, the Song of Solomon is absent from the curriculum, except when it is being deconstructed by feminist professors.

Revisionism is what you see on the news, not what actually happened. It is the "p.c. liberal textbooks" you have described. It is the enemy of Beauty.

I think, there is a certain puritanical glee to revising these things. The revisionist makes everything "clean," from the language, to the accepted body of knowledge. It is the enemy of Truth. Perhaps I have unfairly laid the blame for this disease on America, but it pains me to see that we have been revised.
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While political correctness and deconstruction have become fashionable in certain American acacdemic circles, it is far from a traditionally American attitude (and is often openly contemptuous of the values of the American founders, as of other "dead white males.")

The P.C. movement did not really being in earnest until th 1980s, and would have been unthinkable even in 1950s America.

I wouldn't blame this on "puritanism," as the p.c. revisionists, for the most part, delight in any sort of sexual perversion and deviation. It is only traditional married sexuality that they oppose. It is a reaction against Christianity and Christian societal and moral norms.

[theculturewarrior]

You win, Socrates. I'm going to bed.

[Socrates]

[quote name='theculturewarrior' date='Aug 19 2005, 08:32 PM']Do you think an American artist would hesitate to do the same thing, if he could get the attention this guy got?
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Probably not. I am not saying Americans are all immune from the disease of Modernism - it effects both sides of the pond.

And I would seriously argue that such things proabably get a stronger negative reaction in "puritan" America, than in "sophisticated" Western European countries like England and France (where people are generally more jaded about such things). Of course the "artists" love the negative publicity (it's really just childish screaming for attention).

My point is this - This sort of thing started in Europe before spreading to America, so it is inaccurate to talk as though this is somehow a uniquely "American" problem.
It is comparable to a disease which starts in chickens and then spreads to hogs, then blaming the nature of the hogs for the disease.