I'm often struck by a rift - mostly, an intellectual and political one - between myself and my other colleagues at the school and indeed, many of my peers all around. You could say that I take a more moderate political view than the completely liberal - one that has a healthy trust (yet not irrational and dogmatic confidence) in the good and
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Its only military spending that gets a long-term research budget, to bring all these things to the level that we desperately need.
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Your comment that artists just want to start a conversation also explains too much "art." Yes, the dreaded conditional quotations. To me, art should always focus on pushing limits not of society but of the artist. "There is no success without the possibility of failure," wrote Raymond Chandler, "no art without the resistance of the medium."
Then again, wrote Henry Miller: "Only an engineer can ruin a bridge." (Of course, Miller was talking about drawings of bridges, not ones that don't fall down suddenly as you're crossing.)
Hmmm. This distinction between art and engineering seems silly. I see no reason whatsoever to do both every day.
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