Tuesday, October 11, 2011

During my reading of True Enough I came across the idea of Social Reality. This is what I was trying to talk about in class. The world of hard sciences and math is dominated by objective reality, there is a right answer to how and why things happen, but when you deal with people everything becomes subjective. People only think something is art because they all agree on it. Street art is a really good example of this because while some people see it as a popular form of self expression in the public sphere, other, such as the police, see it as vandalism and the destruction of public property. The culture that we live in only continues to exist in its present form because people who participate in it think it is the best. If everyone woke up tomorrow and decided that they were unhappy with everything you could reasonably expect the culture to change.

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