Obama still gets to be president
Obama is teh British! and teh American!, and the Supreme Court say "we no care". Yay supreme court!
And McCain was not a "natural born" citizen either. Oh noes!
I heard a rumor that George Washington was born in Virgina when it was a British colony, meaning he was not a "natural born" citizen either! Oh Noes! Whats are we to do?
In an unrelated(or is it?) note I just wrote an exhibit catalog about art that is alive, and may have deconstructed the idea of objecthood in the process.
8 comments:
1) Define "art".
2) I think the whole "Obama 'natural-birth' thing" is a wonderful example of our antiquated and stupid fucking system. I really like the idea that factcheck.org looked at the birth certificate and decided that it could not have been faked. Honestly, how could anyone fake a paper document? How could anyone produce a document which appeared to be genuine? It's impossible! You can't, like, FAKE paper documentation...man...it had a raised seal! A raised seal!
You can't fake that. It's just science.
I'll accept that human beings have to construct stupid fucking systems in order to live their lives in modest comfort. I'll go along with Hobbes on that.
My point is that it would just be nice if they were at least mildly aware of it. You know? Use a few dollar bills to buy some food...but recognize that currency has no value and the whole enterprise of "buying shit" is really fucking stupid and absurd. Make appeals to Obama's birth certificate...but recognize that it's a fucking piece of paper.
That's where I jump off the humanism/existentism boat. That's where I take issue with Nietzsche. Recognize that reality is absurd, sure. Recognize that it's just things living on a floating rock. But don't posit meaning onto it. Stay at "beings floating on rock". Don't go further than that; don't create a "further".
Just stay at "beings floating on rock".
Not sure exactly why I went off on that tangent. I'll blame it on my fucking Buddhism paper.
Defining art is a trap.
But in class the other day their was a rather heated argument between a student and the professor over whether or not scrap books are art.
Oh my god I hate scrap booking. And I think that conversation is why.
Scrap booking makes the presentation of artifacts more meaningful than the artifacts on their own. So we can't just look at pictures. Oh no. We have to look at pictures and artifacts surrounded by kitschy crap.
I have my acceptance letter to Grad School in a frame. But, man, it would be so much more awesome if I cut it up and glued it to a page surrounded by cardboard cutouts of purple dragons and stars.
And instead of keeping pictures of my ex girlfriend and I on a CD? I totally need to print them out and glue them to pieces of paper surrounded by pictures of puppies and volleyballs.
Nothing enhances a memory like purple dragons and volleyballs.
It is the illuminated manuscript of the 21st Century.
Oh I should have said that in class. the professor would have killed me. lol
Seriously. Shithead was on a volleyball team. So on the page with pictures from the volleyball team they put a shitty little clipart picture of a volleyball.
Because it was a volleyball team. So, the page needs a volleyball.
Because they're apparently five and just learned about correspondence.
Jesus Fucking REALLY!? You REALLY need to embelish the memory that much? "Hay! This R picture of dog! It kneed doge boan on paeg!!"
Are you fucking...REALLY!? Really?
"This r pictur of gradeuation! It r need pictuer ov gradeuation cap!"
REALLY!? I couldn't gather that from your wearing a cap in the picture, of your wearing a graduation robe in the picture?
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Indeed, a reflection of our times. Whatever will future generations think...
So, wait, these creatures had to include pictures of the object used to play a game in order to denote the game played?
Wouldn't they have known the game played from the content of the pictures?
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I'm glad they're dead. I really am.
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