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The One, the Creator, the Alpha and the Obamacare, Amen
by John Ransom
Jul 18, 2013 

Critics of Obamacare are missing the point. 

They are likely the types who go to U.S. art museums and can’t appreciate “art for art’s sake.” Europeans would never have that problem. 

But here in the U.S., yokels expect some moral or message or meaning from art. When it’s missing, they think the artist self-indulgent or even crazy. 

Clearly this is a common case: Unsophisticated, middle Americans, who cling to their guns and religion, and view the Bible as a highest form of poetry- because, you know, it’s lasted only over three millennia and is the basis of all that is good in the world- shouldn’t be allowed to pass judgment on the modernist, hip, ultra-urban point of view of art and society. 

The “modern” point of view, after all has been around for 200 years - thus has stood the test of time- and look at all it’s accomplished! 

Fascism and communism and atheism and materialism have combined to produce more war-related deaths than all the other “isms” combined, in just a scant 100 years. 

Talk about great performance art! 

You can almost feel the tension still created by Holocaust, the Great Terror, the several French Republics, Prussian Militarism and a thousand other offerings to the modern point of view. 

And the great thing about the modern point of view, which we’ll call philosophy for art’s sake, is that it’s self-perpetuating. 

Philosophy, in the modern sense, doesn’t have to be true or workable, it’s just has perpetuate ideas, which perpetuate more ideas. It allows us to go from "All Men are Created Equal" to "White Privilege," while calling them the same thing, in a generation... 

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