Re: who is john q public?

From: Cari Machet (email suppressed)
Date: Mon Mar 06 2006 - 09:43:11 PST


sounds like ur putting up ur own reflection of a white guy
enjoy
punk?
munk?
antithisis
whatever...

c

On 3/4/06, victoria waghorn <email suppressed> wrote:
> cari.. your world is seemingly fraught with inconsistency (the artist's
> quagmire).
>
> so immersed are you it would appear in your emotive realm that you lack
> objectivity to understand why people respond to you accordingly when you
> arbitrarily spit off value judgements in all directions like an errant
> tennis ball machine. you hate sheep -- you love sheep. perhaps cari you are
> a sheep? perhaps cari you are john Q public?
>
> john Q public is an abstract concept which once broken down has no valid
> basis (the sum is sometimes lesser than the parts) -- but wide-sweeping
> generalisations are hardly based on rational principles are they? ultimately
> by owning them we become that which we most despise -- if that is indeed a
> sheep.
>
> regards.
>
> v.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cari Machet" <email suppressed>
> To: <email suppressed>
> Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2006 7:35 AM
> Subject: Re: who is john q public?
>
>
> > glad ur world has no john q public (sheep)
> > sad mine does (but glad i am in reality)
> > ever been 2 the midwest?
> > ever heard of religion
> > ya know the opiate of the masses?
> > for u 2 not understand/acknowledge these really problematic 'spaces' of
> > culture
> > is perhaps naive
> >
> > c
>
> >> using an argument about the inferiority of the general public is not one
> >> I
> >> like for a lot of reasons.
> >>
> >> john q public, like the hollywood movie, is an urban (art world) myth.
> >>
> >> Zev
> >>
> >> Zev Robinson
> >> www.artafterscience.com
> >> www.zrdesign.co.uk
> >>
> >>
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