Sunday, September 5, 2010

Cult of Mediocrity

This is the opening statement from the site "mashupciti.com" and the link is teaching people how to make a "mashup".  How lazy and rationalizing can we become when we have to justify the amateurish and lazy practice in the opening notes of the instructions.  This is like a cult that says "you can have your own ideas as long as you agree unconditionally with ours and support our mediocrity".  Sad.





Mashups, remixes, subs, and online parodies are new and refreshing online phenomena, but they partake of an ancient tradition: the recycling of old culture to make new. In spite of our romantic cliches about the anguished lone creator, the entire history of cultural production from Aeschylus through Shakespeare to Clueless has shown that all creators stand, as Isaac Newton (and so many others) put it, “on the shoulders of giants.”
Word to the wise... when someone describes art as refreshing, offer them a glass of sparkling punch in the face.

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