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To: vannrox
As read into the Congressional Record Thursday, January 10, 1963, Congressional Record--Appendix, pp. A34-A35, http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm

Item 22.

Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."
4 posted on 12/03/2002 6:09:14 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants
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To: Blood of Tyrants
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"...Oh, all right: In a free country, people should be left alone to ingest dog poop, if that's what they want to do.

Cancel the boxcars. I do think, though, that the fact of a worthless fraud like Mr. Creed being able to attain fame and fortune with his absurd "works of art" should make anyone who cares about our civilization cringe and weep.

It is all very well to say that people should be able to do what they like with their money (which seems nowadays to include your money and my money, too: "art" everywhere is heavily subsidized from taxation).

But public awards like the Turner Prize are not private matters. They are statements that we (we, this culture; we, this civilization) make about ourselves, to the world and to posterity.

The statement being made this week by the Turner Prize judges is: "We are a culture of driveling nincompoops, who would not know real talent, skill and inspiration if they whacked us over the head with a loaded pool cue."

To drive home the point, to add insult to injury, they delegated the prize-giving to Madonna, a talentless self-promoter, the very epitome of everything trashy, stupid, dirty, meretricious (look up the etymology), mindless and antisocial in our godforsaken culture...."



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17 posted on 12/03/2002 10:25:30 AM PST by vannrox
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