........................................................................................ - a weBlog by Snowy and me.
Friday 20 January 2012
Museums
are like well kept graveyards,
for the half-living to visit,
to see how the now
non-living used to live,
through viewing the objects
they no longer have any use for.
The fully living people are the people who made the items in the museums, the tools, bowls and other impliments, when there were no museums for anything, and who left them behind- agnostic towards posterity.
Try http://leslietaylor.net/gallery/indian/indian.htm or any other tribe who live totally dependent on the land they live in, who have devised a way of living in scale with their environment in which their environment does not destroy them and they do not destroy their environment. That is the sort of society that does not create 'rubbish', it is conceptually impossible when everything recycles itself in a working system. Old rubbish, often made with great skill, is what our museums are full of. It would be very easy for us westerners to put these tribes on a pedestal, particularly for not knowing how they live in balance and I want to resist that, as much as I wanted to be brief-I have failed to be brief. But big ideas will expand and then require longer explanations.
Once again, your perception is amazing and admired.......
ReplyDeleteAnd half-living are all around us.
What interests me is your definition of Full-livings ?
The fully living people are the people who made the items in the museums, the tools, bowls and other impliments, when there were no museums for anything, and who left them behind- agnostic towards posterity.
ReplyDeleteOK.
ReplyDeleteBut who would you consider as full living people today ?
Try http://leslietaylor.net/gallery/indian/indian.htm or any other tribe who live totally dependent on the land they live in, who have devised a way of living in scale with their environment in which their environment does not destroy them and they do not destroy their environment. That is the sort of society that does not create 'rubbish', it is conceptually impossible when everything recycles itself in a working system. Old rubbish, often made with great skill, is what our museums are full of. It would be very easy for us westerners to put these tribes on a pedestal, particularly for not knowing how they live in balance and I want to resist that, as much as I wanted to be brief-I have failed to be brief. But big ideas will expand and then require longer explanations.
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