The Dunning-Kruger Diaries

Why is it always the 1970s with these people?
Heh. Quite. Even the idea of a “queer experimental film festival” seems comically retro, an antiquated hangover from another age.

“Nonconsensual assemblage”
There was a lot of that when my kids used to argue over their Duplo.

Ironically (I think I’m using that word correctly…I’m really not sure any more) this thread is reminding me of John Cage’s 4:33, to wit via wiki:

4′33″ (pronounced “Four minutes, thirty-three seconds” or just “Four thirty-three”) is a three-movement composition by American experimental composer John Cage (1912–1992). It was composed in 1952, for any instrument or combination of instruments, and the score instructs the performer(s) not to play their instrument(s) during the entire duration of the piece throughout the three movements. The piece purports to consist of the sounds of the environment that the listeners hear while it is performed, although it is commonly perceived as “four minutes thirty-three seconds of silence”. The title of the piece refers to the total length in minutes and seconds of a given performance, 4′33″ being the total length of the first public performance.
Conceived around 1947–48, while the composer was working on Sonatas and Interludes, 4′33″ became for Cage the epitome of his idea that any sounds may constitute music. It was also a reflection of the influence of Zen Buddhism, which Cage studied since the late 1940s. In a 1982 interview, and on numerous other occasions, Cage stated that 4′33″ was, in his opinion, his most important work. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians describes 4′33″ as Cage’s “most famous and controversial creation”.

“Reminded” or “blame”…Perhaps that’s what they were going for and failed even more miserably than as it appears.

By calling this “art,” they are identifying what they believe to now be the height of our virtue as a species.

Off-Topic, but Darleen (or anyone else who might know), what’s the current status of Protein Wisdom? All I get is a blank screen.
Thanks.

“The only thing that’s shocking about any of this stuff is how fucking awful it is.”
Aye. I once had the awful experience of going to a similar kind of hell in Glasgee a few years back (I was trying to impress a pretty young thing…..) and what struck me was how others appeared to be buying into it with vocal analyses of form, function and other metaphysical mind-wreck….
Felt like having a sympathy vomit…

I like the way these ‘artists’ often use the idea of ‘nonconsensual something’ in their ‘art’ to make it challenging or whatever. Being the same people on the front lines of demanding safe spaces and crying if someone looks at them funny.
They love to ‘challenge’ other people but crumble as soon as they hear a differing opinion.
Useless brats, all of them.

Was there ever a brief flickering of shame…
Gotta agree with Trevor there. What we see here is the end product of a generation that has been told, from the moment they were toddlers, that they were special. I don’t think that they are able to fathom that they don’t measure up. Everything they ever did, every burp, every fart, was lauded to the stars. The schools they went to, the colleges they attended, everybody accommodated them and their illusions, because, hey, you wouldn’t want to crush their self-esteem. And now what we have is the most narcissistic generation to ever walk the face of the Earth.
As my father used to say, only half in joke, “Il leur faudrait une bonne guerre…”

Was there ever a brief flickering of shame or humility, or even just frustration at their own inadequacy?
In my experience, these lot aren’t big on shame, humility, or self-awareness. You can guarantee that they’ve never taken responsibility for a damned thing in their lives.

jabrwok,
…what’s the current status of Protein Wisdom? All I get is a blank screen.
I’m not sure, but on Twitter, Jeff is referring to it in the past tense. Uh-oh.

Thanks…um…Spiny San!:-) I hope the site returns. Wasn’t one of my daily reads, but I enjoyed dropping in occasionally.