Tag: science

What is art?

Posted on by philipdodson

All art is useless, I think Oscar Wilde said that.

A fork is useful but I could live without a fork. Art is use-less but I couldn’t live without it.

We slave away in our so called ‘proper’ jobs doing very important stuff to earn lots of money. We’re told at school and by parents that the arts aren’t important and we need to focus on math, science etc so we can get those ‘proper’ jobs.

Then what do we spend our money on from our proper jobs? Well, art for the house, music to listen to, we go to watch a play, we go to the cinema to watch a film, we watch TV, we watch YouTube, we buy a beautifully designed and crafted piece of furniture, we pay an architect to design our new house, we buy a beautifully designed fancy car that looks amazing and so on.

Yep, we work hard to spend our money on stuff that artists, musicians, actresses, designers, architects, creative writers, and so on, who have worked tirelessly as an artist to bring you their art to entertain you or for your enjoyment.

Art is imperfect and it is the imperfect that we love in life, the cracks are how the light gets in.

Useful things are just that, utilitarian and functional. Art is the life and soul of the party, the reason to be alive.

Art is life and without it life would be just useful. I want a use-less life filled with art.

What if the earth is really flat

Posted on by philipdodson

We are bombarded with facts, science, things that are indisputable, they are sacrosanct, we can’t dare to argue.

It is amazing how as supposedly the most intelligent species on the planet that we so readily accept everything that we are told.

For me so much more is opinion than fact, actually, is there anything that we can claim to know to be 100% correct?

What have I learnt over 51 years? Well, most of what I have been told was a fact is actually not as black and white as it was presented to me.

I am learning to be curious, doesn’t mean I will change my view of what I am told, but, to not question things doesn’t make sense anymore.

So is the earth flat or round? I don’t know, I never been to space. If you’ve seen the Truman Show, they all thought their world was real until one person questioned it.