Re: RAT (not about) COLUMBINE

[Ezra Buzzington <jonoh1@juno.com>]

On Sat, 24 Apr 1999 15:08:10 -0700 (PDT) Audie McCall
<audiemccall@yahoo.com> writes:
>--- Ezra Buzzington <jonoh1@juno.com> wrote:
>But I'm
>> confused by your statement
>> that  "our job as artists becomes to engage bad art
>> with good". Do you
>> mean "bad" ( and good) in an aesthetic sense, or
>> moral?
>> Good art is evil,
>> Jonathan
>
>I'm not convinced of the difference.  Perhaps you can
>enlighten me.

I don't know. Maybe. Do you mean  "good" as in aesthetically
pleasing/socially redeeming/emotionally fulfilling -whatever floats the
viewers subjective boat? Or "good" as in a state of being. It's good to
help. It's bad to kill. Like that?
>
>"Good art is evil."?

>
>Are we beating our head against the semantic wall here
>for our amusement?  Fiddling while Rome burns?

An actor knows that when they are playing an "evil" character they must
search for the reasons s/he behaves as s/he does and they must find
something "good" to cling to in building a three-dimensional character.
Otherwise they're doing melodrama or somesuch. All good art is inherently
evil because humankind has the potential for evil within the soul. It
must be present at all times otherwise there is no balance. And I
certainly don't mean to be beating my (as oppossed to "our") head against
anything. I'm just asking a question. And my friends will tell you that,
though I am easily amused, I don't generally indulge myself. Oh, and, I
can't play the fiddle.
>
>"Freedom is slavery."  Right back at ya!

Okay. Sure. I guess. But I think you're reading something into my writing
that is completely unintended.
On the run,
Jonathan
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