On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 12:05 PM, joseph berg <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 11:35 AM, joseph berg <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 7:44 PM, joseph berg <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 5:57 AM, Michael Brady < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> I've been preoccupied lately by two ideas that I believe are related: >>>> >>>> Error >>>> Quality >>>> >>>> >>> As far as I am concerned, once there is no such thing as error, there >>> can be no such thing as quality. >>> >> >> Let me rephrase what I previously said: >> >> - ...Once people start believing that there is no such thing as error, >> then that's the beginning of the end of quality. >> > > > The 21st-century has lost sight of the notion of deviation and > transgression. In fact, they seem to have become the what is now > euphemistically called "the new normal": > > - *It is perfectly easy to be original* by violating the laws of decency > and the canons of good taste. > > Oliver Wendell *Holmes* > And here is the proof as we breathlessly await the answer to the question, "You call that art?": http://bostonglobe.com/ideas/2012/10/27/how-shock-unshockable-crowd/lnegNqkYdwf0fXU1AguluK/story.html
