I don’t want to write about that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Well, let it serve as an introduction. I recently saw another excerpt from a lecture that dealt with the question: Why do you love me?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Slavoj \u017di\u017eek answers something like this: That’s a good question. If you can answer that question, then by definition it’s not love. Love is not (sorry for the vulgarity) \u2013 \u2018I have three women, this one has nice legs and a nice smile, this one has nice eyes, this one has whatever,\u2019 and then OMG, this one gets 4 points, the other one gets 1 point.NO \u2013 now a little theology: intelligent theologians are dogmatic in a correct Marxist way, they know very well that if you say \u2018I believe in Jesus Christ because I’ve studied all religions comparatively and Christianity has the best arguments\u2019 \u2013 if you were in medieval times and somebody claimed that, I would say \u2013 \u2018burn him immediately\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In another (or the same) lecture, he goes into this again, expanding on these thoughts with \u2018That’s attraction, that’s superficiality, surface, etc.\u2019 and then ending with \u2018that’s not love.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thank you, Slavoj \u017di\u017eek, for this introduction. So where was my leap of thought?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’m sitting here at breakfast thinking about \u2018the concept of art.\u2019 In the sense of: what is art, is what I do also art, how does art differ from \u2018non-art\u2019, can we judge art by denying art to be art? Do we have to be \u2018someone\u2019 to do that? Now I think of what Slavoy says about love, and is art love here \u2013 could that be a good explanation?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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