FS: Blek Tango, Eine Elton Drk, Logan Hicks Sunset Apartment, by met on Dec 2, 2015 18:08:52 GMT 1,

Nov 28, 2015 11:06:27 GMT 1 @martedanielsen said:

Nov 28, 2015 3:43:35 GMT 1 met said:

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You seem to strip out the humanity of these small businesses we call galleries, they're generally not some corporate entity with the moral code of a right wing christian thinking of nothing other than their own self interest and profit.

As Mr David Foster Wallace. You have a choice what to believe. Personally, I think the chef collapsed after working a triple shift to earn enough to pay for his sick moms medicine.

Cheers for the video with the excerpt by David Foster Wallace. It was engaging and interesting. At a later stage, I must source and listen to his full speech.

The point Wallace makes about the choice each of us has is duly noted. We get to decide how we're going to see things and what has meaning.

My own conscious choice is to resist obfuscation (gleefully wielding Occam's razor when appropriate), but also oversimplification, and to seek palatable or unpalatable truths. In this quest, possible explanations for the truth that are supported by evidence are given more weight than those which are merely conceivable.

Despite its intent and emphasis on awareness, I believe Wallace's approach to choosing carries with it a risk of self-delusion and temporary loss of one's critical faculties. Our gift of imagination is easily used, often inadvertently, to distort reality — as a pacifying, protective mechanism to make ourselves feel better and life more bearable. Or to find excuses for the status quo, whose glaring faults and injustices are always possible to rationalise.

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In response to your initial comment, I don't believe I strip out the humanity of small gallery businesses, or of large ones for that matter.

On the contrary, I'm all too aware these businesses are managed and run by humans (as opposed to, say, computers or robots). It's for this reason one should hope they behave with decency, showing their customers consideration and respect. [This is what apparently failed to happen for spirit .]

In other words, it's a reasonable expectation that gallery staff demonstrate their humanity, by treating each customer as a fellow human being — i.e. not as some object to be quickly dropped and ignored if circumstances change and the customer ceases to be either immediately useful or an immediate source of potential profit.

Nov 28, 2015 11:06:27 GMT 1 @martedanielsen said:

Nov 28, 2015 3:43:35 GMT 1 met said:

[...]

You seem to strip out the humanity of these small businesses we call galleries, they're generally not some corporate entity with the moral code of a right wing christian thinking of nothing other than their own self interest and profit.

As Mr David Foster Wallace. You have a choice what to believe. Personally, I think the chef collapsed after working a triple shift to earn enough to pay for his sick moms medicine.

Cheers for the video with the excerpt by David Foster Wallace. It was engaging and interesting. At a later stage, I must source and listen to his full speech.

The point Wallace makes about the choice each of us has is duly noted. We get to decide how we're going to see things and what has meaning.

My own conscious choice is to resist obfuscation (gleefully wielding Occam's razor when appropriate), but also oversimplification, and to seek palatable or unpalatable truths. In this quest, possible explanations for the truth that are supported by evidence are given more weight than those which are merely conceivable.

Despite its intent and emphasis on awareness, I believe Wallace's approach to choosing carries with it a risk of self-delusion and temporary loss of one's critical faculties. Our gift of imagination is easily used, often inadvertently, to distort reality — as a pacifying, protective mechanism to make ourselves feel better and life more bearable. Or to find excuses for the status quo, whose glaring faults and injustices are always possible to rationalise.

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In response to your initial comment, I don't believe I strip out the humanity of small gallery businesses, or of large ones for that matter.

On the contrary, I'm all too aware these businesses are managed and run by humans (as opposed to, say, computers or robots). It's for this reason one should hope they behave with decency, showing their customers consideration and respect. [This is what apparently failed to happen for spirit .]

In other words, it's a reasonable expectation that gallery staff demonstrate their humanity, by treating each customer as a fellow human being — i.e. not as some object to be quickly dropped and ignored if circumstances change and the customer ceases to be either immediately useful or an immediate source of potential profit.