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The right.
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RE: The right.
(March 16, 2020 at 4:02 am)Belacqua Wrote:
(March 16, 2020 at 2:34 am)WinterHold Wrote: That's why you can't talk sense into them.

Granted, the Internet is full of fakes and bots and crazies. 

The guy who runs the Twitter account is an interesting man, and a real person. He is based in Tokyo and posts anonymously, but he's clearly some kind of professional architect or historian of architecture. He posts frequently with well-made photos of traditional building methods. This is what appealed to me -- I also live in Japan and value its home-grown skills and aesthetic. 

He is too cagey to show his bigotry flat out, and is less extreme than some. It took a while for me to see that he is welcoming to the more overt racists. For example, he posted a quote from Simone Weil, whom I admire. In just a few minutes, one of his frequent responders pointed out that Weil had been born Jewish. In the end it became clear where his sympathies lie. 
The only way to detect bots is time. Machines run out of logic with time; and their messages are redundant.
Enough talking about machines though, for real people one or two racist expression will probably trigger my alarms immediately; also friends are a big alarm for me; if the person welcomes bigots then probably they are also bigots.
Quote:Surrealism is, in a sense, the art of our times -- like it or not. It's the latest in the family line coming out of Romanticism, which positioned itself against the Neoclassicism and rationalism that were becoming dominant in the 18th century. Romantic art and its descendants are the last oasis in life where we value irrationality. The rest of life is (or we think it should be) utilitarian, scientific, efficient, goal-directed. 

The Surrealists would be happy to hear that you find it affecting, even disgusting. Their goal is to de-familiarize the world, and bring up the truth that practical life covers over. "Sur-real" means more real than real -- where "real" means the way we perceive the world in our workaday lives, and "more real" means the chaos that in fact lies below all that. You can see the affinities with Nietzsche and Freud.

I never studied art or even looked close at its logic; you can understand knowing that I'm a programmer: in a sense I never cared about organizing or trying to paint, but maybe that's why I have emotions for Surrealism: chaos.

I think chaos is beautiful at times; that's why. I also like Freud's logic in some topics.
The most complex artistic production of mine is trying to pick the right colors for a website using the famous color wheel Hehe  which results in......meh -_-
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The right. - by WinterHold - March 15, 2020 at 11:02 am
RE: The right. - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - March 15, 2020 at 11:21 am
RE: The right. - by WinterHold - March 16, 2020 at 2:34 am
RE: The right. - by Belacqua - March 16, 2020 at 4:02 am
RE: The right. - by WinterHold - March 16, 2020 at 6:09 am
RE: The right. - by Fake Messiah - March 15, 2020 at 11:40 am
RE: The right. - by Gawdzilla Sama - March 15, 2020 at 12:12 pm
RE: The right. - by onlinebiker - March 15, 2020 at 12:57 pm
RE: The right. - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - March 15, 2020 at 1:04 pm
RE: The right. - by Fake Messiah - March 15, 2020 at 1:29 pm
RE: The right. - by arewethereyet - March 15, 2020 at 2:52 pm
RE: The right. - by Gawdzilla Sama - March 15, 2020 at 3:01 pm
RE: The right. - by The Valkyrie - March 15, 2020 at 3:44 pm
RE: The right. - by chimp3 - March 15, 2020 at 1:37 pm
RE: The right. - by no one - March 15, 2020 at 2:40 pm
RE: The right. - by no one - March 15, 2020 at 2:55 pm
RE: The right. - by Belacqua - March 15, 2020 at 3:59 pm
RE: The right. - by Abaddon_ire - March 15, 2020 at 5:33 pm
RE: The right. - by Deesse23 - March 16, 2020 at 3:31 am
RE: The right. - by The Valkyrie - March 15, 2020 at 5:58 pm
RE: The right. - by Belacqua - March 15, 2020 at 6:09 pm
RE: The right. - by arewethereyet - March 15, 2020 at 6:17 pm
RE: The right. - by Belacqua - March 15, 2020 at 6:31 pm
RE: The right. - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - March 15, 2020 at 6:48 pm
RE: The right. - by Rhizomorph13 - March 15, 2020 at 6:38 pm
RE: The right. - by Belacqua - March 15, 2020 at 6:47 pm
RE: The right. - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - March 16, 2020 at 6:26 am

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