From bd2be4a5100f1b6d16fa4ec28278356666bfd64d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: phoebe jenkins <pjenkins@tula-health.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2024 06:30:53 -0400
Subject: a pass through esthetics... which implies having to spend some time
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 \fancyhead{} \fancyfoot{} \fancyfoot[LE,RO]{\thepage}
 \fancyhead[LE]{\textsc{Esthetics}} \fancyhead[RO]{\textit{Art or Brend?}}
 
-\begin{enumerate}[label=\textbf{\arabic*.}, wide, itemsep=1em]
+\begin{enumerate}[label=\textbf{\arabic*.}, wide, itemindent=0em, itemsep=1em]
 \item Perhaps the most diseased justification the artist can give of his profession is to say that it is somehow scientific. LaMonte Young, Milton Babbitt, and Stockhausen are exponents of this sort of justification. 
 
 The law which relates the mass of a body to its velocity has predictive value and is an outstanding scientific law. Is the work of art such a law? The experiment which shows that the speed of light is independent of the motion of its source is a measurement of a phenomenon crucial to the confirmation of a scientific hypothesis; it is an outstanding scientific experiment. Is the work of art such a measurement? The invention of the vacuum tube was an outstanding technological advance. Is the work of art such a technological advance? Differential geometry is a deductive analysis of abstract relations and an outstanding mathematical theory. ts the work of art such an analysis? 
 
-The motives behind the \enquote{scientific} justification of art are utterly sinister. Perhaps LaMonte Young is merely rationalizing because he wants an academic job. But Babbitt is out to reduce music to a pedantic pseudo-science. And Stockhausen, with his \enquote{scientific music}, intends nothing less than the suppression of the culture of \enquote{lower classes} and \enquote{ower races.} 
+The motives behind the \enquote{scientific} justification of art are utterly sinister. Perhaps LaMonte Young is merely rationalizing because he wants an academic job. But Babbitt is out to reduce music to a pedantic pseudo-science. And Stockhausen, with his \enquote{scientific music}, intends nothing less than the suppression of the culture of \enquote{lower classes} and \enquote{lower races.} 
 
-It is the creative personality himself who has the most reason to object to the \enquote{scientific} justification of art. Again and again, the decisive step in artistic development has come when an artist produces a work that shatters all existing 'scientific' laws of art, and yet is more important to the audience than all the works that \enquote{obey} the laws. 
+It is the creative personality himself who has the most reason to object to the \enquote{scientific} justification of art. Again and again, the decisive step in artistic development has come when an artist produces a work that shatters all existing \enquote{scientific} laws of art, and yet is more important to the audience than all the works that \enquote{obey} the laws. 
 
 \item The artist or entertainer cannot exist without urging his product on other people. In fact, after developing his product, the artist goes out and tries to win public acceptance for it, to advertise and promote it, to sell it, to force it on people. If the public doesn't accept it at first, he is disappointed. He doesn't drop it, but repeatedly urges the product on them. 
 
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 \item There are experiences for each person which accomplish what art and entertainment fail to. The purpose of this essay is to make you aware of these experiences, by comparing and contrasting them with art. I have coined the term \term{brend} for these experiences. 
 
-Consider all of your doings, what you already do. Exclude the gratifying of physiological needs, physically harmful activities, and competitive activites. Concentrate on spontaneous self-amusement or play. That is, concentrate on everything you do just because you like it, because you just like it as you do it. 
+Consider all of your doings, what you already do. Exclude the gratifying of physiological needs, physically harmful activities, and competitive activities. Concentrate on spontaneous self-amusement or play. That is, concentrate on everything you do just because you like it, because you just like it as you do it. 
 
 Actually, these doings should be referred to as your just-likings. In saying that somebody likes an art exhibit, it is appropriate to distinguish the art exhibit from his liking of it. But in the case of your just-likings, it is not appropriate to distinguish the objects valued from your valuings, and the single term that covers both should be used. When you write with a pencil, you are rarely attentive to the fact that the pencil was produced by somebody other than yourself. You can use something produced by somebody else without thinking about it. In your just-likings, you never notice that things are not produced by you. The essence of a just-liking is that in it, you are not aware that the object you value is less personal to you than your very valuing. 
 
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