RE: an arteest

A turd with the best presentatation and all the trimmings is still a turd,
you can count him as a genius, knock yourself out. It reminds me of an
equation describing a phenomena that leaves out the most significant
variables, oh well.

Daniel

-----Original Message-----
From: L. Manning Vines [mailto:lmanningvines@hotmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 9:03 PM
To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
Subject: Re: an arteest

Daniel writes:
<< All bankrupt authors, the shelf of idiocy. >>

This hinges on what baggage you're giving "bankrupt." For at least one of
the men in question, I'm dubious regardless of the manner of the baggage.

As for idiocy, though, I can't but think you're wrong. I might be
sympathetic to your saying it of Hitler, but being honest, I doubt very much
that he ought to be called an idiot in any typical sense of the word. To
your estimation of the other, though, I am utterly unsympathetic. He was
plainly not an idiot, and in fact very far from it.

Very brilliant men, of course, can say and believe untrue things (perhaps
even more often than idiots turn out to be right). Even if the philosophy
turns out to be impossible to live by, even if implementing it inevitably
makes things worse -- even, in fact, if you associate the ideas and
ideologies of OTHER men to one to whom they do not belong -- the worth of
the book for learning from, like the caliber and might of the mind that
wrote it, ought not to be estimated so lowly.

-robbie
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