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Re: Do We Perceive Beauty in an Unexpected Context
Make that: EVERYTHING's less important than the "task at hand".
On Feb 20, 2012, at 10:29 AM, David Coffin wrote:
Ditto Paul and Pawel; this "experiment", which I recall reading
about shortly after it happened, always seemed to me to have been
set up to guarantee the results obtained and wanted, and pretty
obviously so.
What's so surprising about a bunch of commuters in a metro station
on the way to work being too busy, too preoccupied and too
habituated to jump the rails for some serious, long-form music, no
matter how high-quality? Any marketing person could have predicted
exactly what happened, let alone any busker…
Similarly, I don't see any evidence that an average crowd or the
average person values random beauty much at all. How often have you
ever seen a freeway traffic jam, or even a single pulled-over
vehicle, during a spectacular sunset, or any other jaw-dropping
display of light on landscape as seen from the road? Nothing's less
important than the "task at hand".
What's more of a cliche than "Stop and smell the roses!" or that the
Artistic Life (which is not renowned for being an enviable one) is
about noticing the beauty that everyone else misses?
dpc