[MD] Paradise in cyber space

[Krimel]

> [Krimel]
> The ability to create art for others to appreciate might be termed
> tran-aesthetic in that it involves the ability to produce outward
> expressions of the inner beauty of one person that resonate with the
> aesthetic sense of others.

[Platt]
By George, I think he's got it! Only there's nothing "trans" about it.
Beauty like Quality, is Beauty, no matter how or when created. 

[Krimel]
I do not think beauty is a property of works of art or of sunsets any more
than green is a property of trees or grass. Beauty resides in the eye of the
beholder. Not to break all Micah on you but it does not exist independently
of individuals and culture.

[Platt]
Like I said, nothing transcends the art produced by the cavemen of Lascaux. 

[Krimel]
If those horses and animals were painted on a wall in your home town you
would call them graffiti. I think your aesthetic sense of them is as much a
product of your knowledge and appreciation of their historical significance
as of their purely artistic merit.
 
[Platt]
Speaking of infantile, you always manage some way to toss in a personal
insult, like the above, "You're stupid. Besides, my appreciation of beauty
is better than yours." 

[Krimel]
I am an agnostic wizard. It is my role to be aggressive and nuke things.
Sometimes there is collateral damage.

[Platt]
Oh well, someday the sun will shine.

[Krimel]
"The sun shall not smite I by day or the moon by night,"
- Bob Marley