RE: A Sensibility of Worth

John asks why after rationalizing his reading habits. And then he swishes
"worth" and "sensible" around like a term paper with a big red 'F' on it in
front of the class. I guess these terms are not as stealthy as "rhetoric"
and "power", those would be 'A' work. Did you that that Robbie?

This crusade against "worth" and "sensible" are spear headed with his
"reasons". Oh well, a free day does has it's draw backs for some.
Daniel

John O. writes:
Why would anyone wish to defend their reading habits (or their listening
habits or their viewing habits or their sexual habits or any of their
aesthetic passions) as "sensible?"

"Worth" and "Sensible" -- these are the words here that define Robbie's
peculiar need to defend his own subjective aesthetic. And to me they say
all I need to know about why we will never agree on such things and why I
suspect that his claims are purely subjective passions disguised in the
rhetoric of a pleading rationality.

Many of the reasons that I love the music and the art and the literature and
the films and the games and the moments and the sex and the people that I
love are, I admit readily, not "sensible" reasons, nor are they based on any
use-exchange value that can be quantified and measured in terms of "worth"
to anyone else necessarily. This does not stop me from sharing them or
teaching them or writing about them -- it doesn't even slow me down. But it
does remind me to celebrate the delightful heterogeneity of such decisions
and moments and experiences and to celebrate the infinite possibilities for
finding "worth" in some of the unlikeliest of places.

And it's raining here, so I have all day to chat about it.
--John
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Received on Mon Dec 15 13:11:02 2003