Discrimination: Re EXLIBRIS digest 1850

["Mike Sweetmore" <msweetmore@hotmail.com>]

I suspect that the reason that "our society neither acts as though it 
believes (that every person is a special sort of artist), nor acts on it" is 
that most people have not found it to be so (unless "special" is used in a 
rather special way).

I have no problem with the concept that some people are better at some 
things than others and that some things are more worthwhile than others.

MJS

> From: Laderman <zita@interport.net>
> Reply-To: exlibris@library.berkeley.edu
> To: Multiple recipients of list <exlibris@library.berkeley.edu>
> Subject: Re: EXLIBRIS digest 1850
> Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 15:29:15 -0800 (PST)
>
> Regarding Marvin Taylor's quote:
>
> "It's not that the artist is a special sort of person; rather, every person
> is a special sort of artist." Hakim Bey.
>
> Ananda Coomaraswamy quotes Sankara as having said that. My memory is not
> perfect, so either he quotes Meister Eckhart as having said the same thing,
> or I made the connection myself.  That is the view from the mystic's
> position.  It is just, that it should cross boundaries of language and
> culture as mysticism does.
>
> Unfortunately our society neither acts as though it believes it, nor acts
> on it.  And the number of roles which are confused with  that of the
> "Romantic" and agonized artist [see the old book of Mario Praz] get larger
> and larger in number, while atthe same time the artist IS thought to be a
> special sort of person.
>
> Gabriel Laderman
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