Sunday, September 14, 2008

Da li čitanje priča i slušanje muzike mogu ljude da učine manje destruktivnim?

"Gregory Bateson thought so. Tim Parks on an anthropologist who believed the arts could diminish our desire to control the world.

Rebelling to the end against his father's tendency to place artistic genius on a pedestal and beyond the reach of ordinary minds, Bateson invites us all, whatever we may be up to, to put beauty before "practicality". His achievement was to offer convincing scientific arguments for our doing so."

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