Poptimist THORT For The Day

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

"quality, though it exists, is not a poptimist concern"

So sez jauntyalan - what say you?

(The Poptimist TFTDs will be drawn from that text poll I did last week about "Poptimist Tenets")

Comments

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

For me the ultimate horizon of poptimism is certainly one in which quality disappears. It is a necessary postulate but it is also absolutely impossible, and unliveable. Quality is not objective but this does not mean we can just throw it away, i.e. quality = value FOR something, and we can accept that there are different 'uses' for music, including the unusual aesthetic 'non-use' use. But a world without quality would be a world without uses, and things without quality would be things without any differentiation, ergo impossible to conceive of. For me, poptimism means flirting with the impossible possibility of this disappearance of quality. It is not an ethics (a way of living) because it is an experience of the impossibility of ethics (i.e. of venturing towards the disappearance of liveability as such).