Kathy on fri 27 dec 02
Hi,
While the artist did make some poor judgments on the
installation and placement of his piece, it is absurd
to say that he is "youthfully arrogant" and deserves
ten years in a federal pen. Have you ever visited a
federal jail? Ten years?
It is clear that he was concerned about the state
of fear many of us live under. If people considered
the tyranny of their fear as much as they considered
how to punish others for it, we would have less of a
problem. As far as "youthful arrogance," an old
aphorism says desire is the sin of the young,
prejudice the sin of the old.
Rather than call this artist a misguided brat, we
should consider him our superior. Poorly done or not,
at least he tried to do something about it. I'm
inspired by this young man and those on the list who
are courageous enough to stick up for him.
Kathy
Shell Lake, Wisconsin
> >Has anybody thought of someone getting a heart
> attack
> >and dying or perhaps a panic where there are people
> >being trampled...
Snail wrote:
> This is not an easy subject, and may have no 'right'
> answer, but I fear what I perceive to be the growing
> tyranny of the morally indignant, demanding to be
> protected (and to protect everyone else) from
> anything
> they find personally disturbing or challenging to
> their own world-view.
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