tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342742228702877343.post931097988026665664..comments2024-02-11T19:31:25.745+00:00Comments on The Yorkist Age: Catherine Mortimer MemorialBrian Wainwrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16867772590464992131noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342742228702877343.post-46439258236952387952012-03-16T07:49:22.960+00:002012-03-16T07:49:22.960+00:00Strange but true historical tidbit... my country&#...Strange but true historical tidbit... my country's own ditheringly incompetent CIA may be responsible for the popularization of "modern" "art".<br /><br />In all seriousness this seems to have been one of the brainchildren of the certifiably insane Frank Wisner, along with Radio America and Latin American dictatorships.<br /><br />http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-weapon-1578808.html<br /><br />In another sense of course the contemporary visual artistic style of "replicate something a drunken bonobo might do" is an extension of the broader movement of humanistic post-modernism, which is dependent on the "Homer Simpson fallacy", the tendency of mildly intelligent people to believe that something they can't understand must be too profound to be understood by normal humans.<br /><br />Thankfully, History and Economics are too scientific to be susceptible to this disease, although I'm given to understand that String Theory might be based on similar principles.JJFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11948014831964413383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342742228702877343.post-15048734845769117352008-11-24T00:37:00.000+00:002008-11-24T00:37:00.000+00:00Not my taste either -- it looks like something ali...Not my taste either -- it looks like something alien. But I guess it's nice to have a monument -- no matter what it looks like. Or is it?!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13135418796623717389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342742228702877343.post-83477687656020870242008-11-22T12:33:00.000+00:002008-11-22T12:33:00.000+00:00I never knew there was such a monument - but I agr...I never knew there was such a monument - but I agree, it's not to my taste either. To me it looks more like some mutant sprouting daffodil bulb than a mother protecting her child. Still, what do I know...Jules Frusherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08207281934232383811noreply@blogger.com