The noise is necessary. It is what gets reason noticed.

Reason by itself only stands a chance in a certain kind of world. Not this one.

If we allow ourselves to think that reason alone is capable of accomplishment, the men who run this world will be very grateful that their lives are made so easy.

It is like bargaining. You make an offer lower than what you are secretly willing to pay, so you and the seller can happily reach a compromise by pretending that that is not you wanted in the first place and you have suffered a little to make the other party happy.

If you make what you think is a reasonable offer to begin with, the eventual compromise will be closer to the ripoff end of the spectrum. What then is to stop the seller from setting the price even higher, since they can now claim that someone has bought at that price, therefore making it more "reasonable".

Also, reason appears (or pretends) to be absolute truth. But it is just a subjective opinion, isn't it. Sometimes one you derive after sifting through the extreme noise, before giving yourself a pat on the back for having arrived at moderation.

I don't know. I don't believe in truth. I don't believe in absolutes. I don't believe in anything or that I know anything, only what I believe at any moment in time.

Just because it is vandalism doesn't mean it is not art.
Just because it is art doesn't mean it is not vandalism.

See my so smart and useless two cents' worth? Grand conclusion after following and thinking through all the noise (which includes many voices of "reason") from the last two to three days. Where would our (my) faculties of reason be without noise.

I really really really love that limpeh sticker.

P/S: I forgot about the other question until I stepped into the shower so I used the 15 minutes to think about it. (Where would we (I) be without thinking time in the shower?)

How is this art?

I think about that sometimes when I am at art events or venues. The only answer to that question (to me) is: How is this not art?

And then I have little intellectual arguments in my head along such lines:
This is so stupid. It is a balloon.
Ha! But it is in the museum!
Because of the bullshit in the accompanying explanation.
So cynical. People love it.
Plebians.
Us or them?
*ignores* This is marketing and copywriting, not art.
 The art is in the message.
???

Then this afternoon I saw this tweet: "Do we all have to agree the sky is blue for the sky to be blue Discuss"

The art of reason, no?