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2017-11-26 Home Front: Culture Wars

What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men?

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Posted by badanov 2017-11-26 11:27|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Find better art from better Men.

Posted by newc 2017-11-26 12:09|| 2017-11-26 12:09|| Front Page Top

#2 Claire Dederer is an American writer. She is best known for her book Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses which was a New York Times best seller

p.s. What Caravaggio ever did to you, you dimbo?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-11-26 12:21|| 2017-11-26 12:21|| Front Page Top

#3 Found a charming and entertaining show on Netflix called, "Stranger Things." My kids had watched it and loved it, too.

Then, I watched the back story interviews with the cast and production members. The adults creeped me out. I hope someone is keeping an eye out for the kids.
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Posted by OregonGuy 2017-11-26 13:42|| http://oregonguythinks.blogspot.com 2017-11-26 13:42|| Front Page Top

#4 They are monster geniuses, and I don’t know what to do about them.

Is there greater genius than monster on the scales of justice? Should the genius be diminished to the weight of monster, is there balance? Accept the destruction of genius as the wages of harboring a monster.

Posted by Skidmark 2017-11-26 14:05|| 2017-11-26 14:05|| Front Page Top

#5 It's simple. Do I really need to say it? When they break the law, throw them in jail.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-11-26 14:30|| 2017-11-26 14:30|| Front Page Top

#6 Because artist are human and humans are flawed?

Example: article never explains what monstrous is. Some places are legalizing drugs, others will execute you for having them. Others wouldn't dare put Doubting Thomas in the same breath as Naked Lunch.

Yeah, what did Caravaggio do?

Posted by swksvolFF 2017-11-26 15:07|| 2017-11-26 15:07|| Front Page Top

#7 Apparently, according to wiki, Caravaggio was a bit of a brawler, one fight leading to the death of the other.

Later, after fleeing to Malta, he broke down the door and beat the crap out of a Knight of Malta, leading to his arrest, and subsequent escape from prison.

Posted by swksvolFF 2017-11-26 19:15|| 2017-11-26 19:15|| Front Page Top

#8 Some of my fairly recent ancestors were cannibals. I still revere them.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2017-11-26 19:30|| 2017-11-26 19:30|| Front Page Top

#9 What about William Chester Minor, who made a large contribution to making the Oxford Dictionary?

Posted by Alaska Paul 2017-11-26 20:58|| 2017-11-26 20:58|| Front Page Top

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