Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/07/08

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Today's Great Photographers {was Photo whores}
From: LP6@aol.com
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 20:01:51 EDT

Mark:

You are not alone:  I share your values! 

An Off Topic Commentary Follows:

Fortunately, the economic power of today's "mass mind"  (....breeding all too
many aesthetic, moral  and cultural vulgarians and barbarians with defective
value vision in all three core dimensions of valuation) dictates a taste level
that shapes common denominator products. 

Until the tide changes, (until the epidemic of cultural vulgarians and
barbarians burns out)  those with a higher general capacity to value will
need deep pockets to buy their way out of today's omnipresent trash  pop
culture:  some of us will always prefer to buy  Leica,  buy Lexus, and refuse
to buy today's Life Magazines of the world!  

If our epidemic of junk art and junk culture continues  long enough a reaction
will set in that may intensify some sort of class struggle,  indeed, the
emergence of a more activist intelligentsia-that will rival and exceed
anything old Czarist Russia ever experienced- is not to be unexpected!

For any thinking person our collective future holds dangerous potential as
well as great possibilities!  Perhaps the "cosmic-glue" having any chance of
holding us together as we grow up as a civilization will be the futuristic
development of a value science; or, a rational values, valuation and moral
logic!   Yes, a mathematics of value is possible and is now under development!

The old notion that there is no explaining taste is only partly true.  The
value vision of today's zeitgeist or group mind, is a subject  that falls well
within the scope of  a scientific enterprise!    

Yes, contemporary  natural science is under attack by the same misinformed
cultural vulgarians and barbarians that are actively dumbing down our
collective aesthetic taste!  Yes, it has all become a game of inches as to
whether reason and science will ever prevail over the dark side of human
nature, not to mention the development of a higher capacity to value among
human beings!  Clearly our run away natural science isn't enough and we need
the co-play and counter-play of a science of values, valuation and morals;
i.e., a Second Science!   

Leon
LP6@aol.com
http://members.tripod.com/~ValuesResearch/Pomeroy.htm