NODE c3bf1ea2Cut the mystical artist crap. (No crypto relevance here)
nobody@REPLAY.COM (Anonymous)Tue, 12 Mar 1996 05:56:52 +0800
Don't mystify what an "artist" is, please!
What the compromises have to do with are that one lives in
a society with rules, mores, laws. One of those touch-shit
facts of life. You can do what you want, but when it involves
other people, restrictions come in. You deal with them,
whether you are an artist, programmer, politician, goverment
wonk, or whatever.
It has nothing to do with selling out or losing integrity.
If you want food and shelter and you're not living in the
woods, then you have to play by everyone else's rules if you
don't have the power to make your own rules.
Was it Thoreau who said "Consistency is the hobgoblin of
simpletons"?
NODE 3697fffcRe: Cut the mystical artist crap. (No crypto relevance here)
Brian Davis <bdavis@thepoint.net>Mon, 11 Mar 1996 11:42:14 +0800
On Mon, 11 Mar 1996, Anonymous wrote:
>...
> Was it Thoreau who said "Consistency is the hobgoblin of
> simpletons"?
Thoeau said that "a foolish consistentcy is the hobgoblin of little minds
..." ^^^^^^^
EBD
NODE 1e5a16d6Re: Cut the mystical artist crap. (No crypto relevance here)
"Declan B. McCullagh" <declan+@CMU.EDU>Tue, 12 Mar 1996 14:29:59 +0800
Excerpts from internet.cypherpunks: 10-Mar-96 Re: Cut the mystical
artist.. by Brian Davis@thepoint.net
> Thoeau said that "a foolish consistentcy is the hobgoblin of little minds
> ..." ^^^^^^^
*sigh* It was neither:
Ralph Waldo Emerson: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little
minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With
consistency
a great soul has simply nothing to do."
-Declan
NODE 25b375faRe: Cut the mystical artist crap. (No crypto relevance here)
Tim Philp <bplib@wat.hookup.net>Tue, 12 Mar 1996 09:25:41 +0800
On Mon, 11 Mar 1996, Anonymous wrote:
> Was it Thoreau who said "Consistency is the hobgoblin of
> simpletons"?
Wasn't it Emmerson who said "A foolish consistancy is the hobgoblin of
small minds"?
Pedantically yours <G>
Tim Philp
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NODE 03ab0f7cRe: Cut the mystical artist crap. (No crypto relevance here)
Alex Strasheim <cp@proust.suba.com>Tue, 12 Mar 1996 15:50:36 +0800
[...]
> What the compromises have to do with are that one lives in
> a society with rules, mores, laws. One of those touch-shit
~~~~~
Interesting parapraxis.
> facts of life. You can do what you want, but when it involves
> other people, restrictions come in. You deal with them,
> whether you are an artist, programmer, politician, goverment
> wonk, or whatever.
>
> It has nothing to do with selling out or losing integrity.
> If you want food and shelter and you're not living in the
> woods, then you have to play by everyone else's rules if you
> don't have the power to make your own rules.
>
> Was it Thoreau who said "Consistency is the hobgoblin of
> simpletons"?
Thoreau was the guy who went to jail rather than pay his taxes when he
felt the government was using the money for immoral purposes.