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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tonto who wrote (181873)	5/31/2015 11:03:29 AM
From: The Barracuda™	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224749

"directing the innumerable choices he has to make" such as who to vote for. If one saw, in real life, a beautiful woman wearing an exquisite evening gown, with a cold sore on her lips, the blemish would mean nothing but a minor affliction, and one would ignore it. But a painting of such a woman would be a corrupt, obscenely vicious attack on man, on beauty, on all values—and one would experience a feeling of immense disgust and indignation at the artist. (There are also those who would feel something like approval and who would belong to the same moral category as the artist.) The emotional response to that painting would be instantaneous, much faster than the viewer’s mind could identify all the reasons involved. The psychological mechanism which produces that response (and which produced the painting) is a man’s sense of life. (A sense of life is a pre-conceptual equivalent of metaphysics, an emotional, subconsciously integrated appraisal of man and of existence.) It is the artist’s sense of life that controls and integrates his work, directing the innumerable choices he has to make, from the choice of subject to the subtlest details of style. It is the viewer’s or reader’s sense of life that responds to a work of art by a complex, yet automatic reaction of acceptance and approval, or rejection and condemnation. This does not mean that a sense of life is a valid criterion of esthetic merit, either for the artist or the viewer. A sense of life is not infallible. But a sense of life is the source of art, the psychological mechanism which enables man to create a realm such as art. The emotion involved in art is not an emotion in the ordinary meaning of the term. It is experienced more as a “sense” or a “feel,” but it has two characteristics pertaining to emotions: it is automatically immediate and it has an intense, profoundly personal (yet undefined) value-meaning to the individual experiencing it. The value involved is life, and the words naming the emotion are: “This is what life means to me.” Regardless of the nature or content of an artist’s metaphysical views, what an art work expresses, fundamentally, under all of its lesser aspects is: “This is life as I see it.” The essential meaning of a viewer’s or reader’s response, under all of its lesser elements, is: “This is (or is not) life as I see it.” http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/sense_of_life.html

To: tonto who wrote (181873)	5/31/2015 6:32:41 PM
From: MJ	4 Recommendations Recommended By Honey_Bee Sedohr Nod Thehammer tonto Respond to of 224749

It is too early for meaningful polls. 1. Hillary has announced but not won the D Primary 2. There could still be challengers to her 3. Bill Clinton won the first time by 43%----the mistake conservatives made was waiting too late to run Ross Perot. 4. There will likely be more dirt to come out on Hillary and maybe Bill 5. As a woman, I was appalled that Hillary did not immediately walk out and ask for a divorce -----including the fornication in the Oval Office---Bill Clinton was and likely is still on the powl for women. Many men would have already been in jail for all of his offenses. 6. Why did 5. not happen------she wanted to be President and made a deal with Obama for the Secretary of State 7. Hillary was not capable of being the Secretary of State. 8. She was a failure 9. I have a couple of more observations----will leave them for now