From: hello@stabby.greedy.vicious   
      
   See, it's just Bill's style to collect all of that crap, thinking it has   
   the keys that his thugging blind eyes can't "see".   
      
   They don't know how to evaluate texts, always looking for the 'code',   
   always thinking that everyone is 'conspiring' behind their backs.   
      
   But, you know, you can't entertain these thugs.  They are thugs.   
   They are killers and drug dealers and victimizers.  OF COURSE people   
   defend themselves, through any means available to them.   
      
   This art and music "intelligence" bullshit is just more of their   
   "totalitarianism"....they are totalitarians, like to imagine that   
   nothing can escape their "all-seeing eyes".  So the victims have to   
   account for all of the art and music etc. that DISTURBS them.   
      
   And they're too fucking vain to see that DVC is a bunch of trash.   
   They're just so, so hostile because they don't "understand" art, and   
   that's their fault.   
      
   The brownshirts were like this.  Hostile to art and literature and   
   music.  Think they know where the "truth" is.   
      
   Fact is, Bill is an EX-CON, murderer, stalker and thug.  He is trying to   
   convince HIMSELF that he is a "legitimate" member of society by whining   
   and pleading and asking "what does this mean, what does that mean"?   
      
   You don't answer or validate him by taking him seriously.   
      
   Treat him like the THUG he is.   
      
   I mean, I came from a working-class background.  I had little in the way   
   of art historical education before I went to college - just a general   
   classical and Catholic education, so at least I had a good grounding in   
   classical and Christian symbolism, which was a great boon to me when I   
   studied art history.  But like I said, I came from a working-class   
   background.  My Irish grandfather was a folk painter with some knowledge   
   and appreciation of art - from Van Gogh to Rockwell to Hopper, but, you   
   know, I wasn't a privately educated princess.  Contemporary art, modern   
   art....you know, didn't have much of a background in that, either....but   
   you know, I kept an open mind and dove in.   
      
   What I'm saying is that these hostile EX-CONS have no excuse if they   
   don't "understand" art.  I mean, it's perfectly okay for art to not be   
   your thing or to claim you don't understand it.  But the thing is, for   
   some reason, these gangs of thugs feel a desperate need to understand   
   it....and why IS that?   
      
   I mean, Joe the Stockboy probably doesn't know a lot about art,   
   either....but then again, he's not all hostile about it.  Why the   
   hostility from some quarters at not "getting" semiotics?  I mean, I   
   don't "get" some science things....just had a good, but basic science   
   education.  You don't see me getting all hostile about computer   
   programming or advanced calculus, do you?   
      
   Of course, the wonderful thing is, I found out later that modernism was   
   really about a democratization of the arts, and I also found out just   
   how many working-class kids had taken up art, photography and film.  One   
   of the reasons I gravitated to Columbia was that I had friends and   
   acquaintances from Cal City who had gone there to study the arts.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)