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It never ceases to amaze me, the way man insists on claiming separate status for himself as part of the food chain, in that we always manage to cop out as soon as it's being eaten rather than eating that's at stake. It could be fairly argued that the use of innate qualities, even those that are helpful, should not by definition lead to condemnation, for who should we then approach to have the associated morality revised? Are you capable of appreciating that the best odds of scrupulous survival are in the capacity to understand that it's only a handful of qualities that set us apart from the status of someone else's main course? In view of the cleansing effect that formulating simple explanations for major sources of irritation has, it is my pleasure to present you with the following line of argument. In so far as there is no reason to assume that the recruitment of fledgling journalists is not essentially any different than other selection processes taking place within the world of education - which implies that it always remains to be seen whether those involved will indeed turn out to have any empathy at all with the trials and tribulations we have to go through - and we have to establish that there are many among our numbers who have a way of mucking things up, we have no choice but to believe that a considerable portion of what appears in print warrants being looked at with some reserve. I worry about all those forms of contemporary and avant garde art the propagators of which sought to avoid at all cost, and continue doing so today, the lapse into an aesthetic experience. Who ever realised how splendid it would look when reproduced in a book, so very different from the revolutionary line-up in the large and bare rooms. Given the considerable transience of the works in question, the moment will soon arrive that the books are all we have left, so that future generations can only wonder about the discrepancy between the militant talk on the one hand and the gloriously printed image on the other. |