Is Blogging the new techno-art? Or is it the trusty newsletter, sans postage?
What is art? It isn’t science, business, politics, sport, entertainment, but it borrows from this trove.
Defining art is like studying language. Different cultures come up with unique words and structure to express experience. Linguists study the roots and branches of language but there it is, time tested, thriving: people basically love to yak. Nobody says ‘how’s language different from science, business, politics, etc.?’ Language is. People talk, and if we didn’t, we’d be more incapsulated and less savvy -- or else we’d dance a lot or maybe thrust elaborate cuisine at other humans to whirl our dervish.
Which is what humans do -- evolve the language, explore the inner, yak about it in vivid technicolor muscularity, cacophony, drama and sometimes, when the dust settles and the crowds blink in wonder, there is art, perched on a toady stool, croaking at the night, unabashed.
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