[MD] Paradise in cyber space

[david buchanan]

Ant said to Platt:
According to ZMM, every human endeavour is an art form that can be improved 
on. ...Moreover, I think you're making beauty an ideal type of static 
Platonic form which would put you outside the MOQ. Best wishes,

dmb says:
Yea, I think Platt's emphasis on the fine arts and beauty has the effect of 
narrowing and even trivializing the MOQ's concepts of art, where physicists, 
philosophers, motorcycle mechanics, Korean wall builders are supposed to be 
artists too.

Its not that the fine arts are to be excluded, of course. The idea, I think, 
is to bring the kind of creative engagement and interpretive freedom that 
traditional associated with the fine arts and export that same attitude and 
process to everything else we do. The ZAMM quote Arlo recently posted 
describes it in mystical terms (tat tvam asi) and 1970s slang ("getting with 
it" and "grooving on it"). It seems then that art is not a process nor the 
artifacts produced by artists so much as a state of being.

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