“The Ephebians believed that every man should have the vote (provided that he wasn't poor, foreign, nor disqualified by reason of being mad, frivolous, or a woman). Every five years someone was elected to be Tyrant, provided he could prove that he was honest, intelligent, sensible, and trustworthy. Immediately after he was elected, of course, it was obvious to everyone that he was a criminal madman and totally out of touch with the view of the ordinary philosopher in the street looking for a towel. And then five years later they elected another one just like him, and really it was amazing how intelligent people kept on making the same mistakes.”

- Terry Pratchet, *Small Gods*

He forgot the "s" in womans

You need to pluralise when talking about multiple objects

Its only orthographically correct

Fictional world, his rules

@JULZIFICATOR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbSG9eTpbNE

XD "ellen getting ready to drink a gallon of bleach"

-random commentor

https://t.co/VHdMv13lIV

I really don't understand that poem

Of course, I also don't understand calling it a "poem".

Perhaps I'm just not hip or something.

P O S T M O D E R N I S M

Just because it doesn't make sense doesn't make it not art. Or good. Or something.

In all seriousness, post modernism started as something unique and powerful. But by 70s had degraded into simply having no standards whatsoever.

yeah its essentially modernism

When your focal point is subverting standards, you eventually end up with unironic shit

in the past

You will invariably find yourself at the point where the only things you can challenge are notions of talent and quality

XD so true

That is the reality of the "post truth" crowd

Is they exist in a paradigm with these authorities they want to challenge

I still can't get over the article picture. It's a real thing. And it won a prestigious award.

https://allthetropes.org/wiki/True_Art_Is_Incomprehensible

Not seperate from them

There is no way for one to challenge standards that dony exist

So really postmodern art

As much as it wants to be seperate from the standards and authorities it challenges

Could not exist without them

An everlasting plea to seperate from reality and perception

It's kinda fun. If you go to a major art museum you'll see the classics and immediately understand why they're classics and held in such high regard. And then you get to the post-moderns of the 1910s and realize how special it is and how it still has it's own high standards while subverting the traditional requirements of "art"

But then you go to the MOMA or something and begin to wonder if it's just a con game to steal money from gullible politicians or something.

It all kinda burned off and now it's just a bunch of junk with weak standards and is just strange for the sake of being strange.

XD get dem nice grant monies for da art schoolz

Your tax dollars at work!

Yeah i mean its not challenging to challenge a standard that has been challenged a million times outside of for practice

Letalone be considered great

Yeah, I'm big on the idea of a return to a certain degree of traditionalism in the academic system

Get the standards back.

Its a cycle

Back and forth in an eternal stuggle

But at this point yeeeeeeeah they need to come back in terms of alot of humanities

Music i think is the only one that has really stayed the path of tradition

In terms of academics. Even the newer sort of music classes are about well established traditional standards (at least in modern day with rock and pop classes and degrees becoming a thing)