[MD] Paradise in cyber space

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Ant McWatt <antmcwatt at hotmail.co.uk>:

> Why bother writing "Zen & the _Art_ of Motorcycle Maintenance" if it's all 
> been said before?

Progress in philosophy, yes. Progress in art, no. 


> Quoting Platt June 8th:
> 
> Progress in art? Not in my book. Beauty transcends time. It belies our 
> assumptions
> of growth and progress. Are our buildings more beautiful than the Parthenon?
> Are our churches more beautiful than Chartes? Are our dishes more beautiful 
> than
> Greek vases? Are our musical compositions more beautiful than Mozart's? 
> Beauty
> doesn’t evolve and improve with time. The animal paintings by unknown early
> humans in the caves of Lascaux have never been surpassed.
> 
> Anyway, why beauty shows up in the equations of physics has never been
> explained by those who reduce everything to quantum fluctuations.
> 
> ---end---
> 



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