tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post2790347733076938858..comments2024-03-27T18:24:19.683-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: What It TakesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-70359537892510200002010-05-18T07:55:50.025-07:002010-05-18T07:55:50.025-07:00"I can visualize perspective and spatial rela..."I can visualize perspective and spatial relationships perfectly in my mind, but am utterly unable to make my hands actually execute what I can see in my mind's eye. My lack of ability in the visual arts is an eternal source of shame to me."<br /><br /><br />That's interesting, Anon. Thanks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-32550863149995122072010-05-17T11:47:20.282-07:002010-05-17T11:47:20.282-07:00Many Salieris, few Mozarts. Is this relationship i...Many <a href="http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/6385" rel="nofollow">Salieris</a>, few Mozarts. Is this relationship inverse, or direct?<br /><br />If you read that whole linked article, you'll probably plump for direct. What animates mediocrity most intensely is keeping its betters down.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-48478494446069054222010-05-16T10:03:04.489-07:002010-05-16T10:03:04.489-07:00"James Kabala said...
Mr. Anon: I think ..."James Kabala said...<br /><br /> Mr. Anon: I think that's actually a reference to the difference in terminology between the New York metro area ("on line," which I suspect has become confusing in the Internet age, although New Yorkers I know still say it) and the rest of the country ("in line"). An upper-crust Englishman would, at least traditionally, say "in the queue."<br /><br />Mr. Kabala:<br /><br />You are of course right, and thanks for the correction (and I shouldn't have made that mistake - in the back of my mind, I knew that the British refer to a line as a queue). Still, I think my basic point holds - of yuppie would-be snobs immitating the speech patterns of whatever group they deem fashionable, more for the purpose of forgetting where they came from, than for getting to where they aspire to be.Mr. Anonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-38112655549314138012010-05-16T05:06:34.778-07:002010-05-16T05:06:34.778-07:00Idealart:
I can visualize perspective and spatial...Idealart:<br /><br />I can visualize perspective and spatial relationships perfectly in my mind, but am utterly unable to make my hands actually execute what I can see in my mind's eye. My lack of ability in the visual arts is an eternal source of shame to me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-31913199550623864152010-05-15T22:56:48.503-07:002010-05-15T22:56:48.503-07:00Thanks idealart, I'd never heard that.
Howeve...Thanks idealart, I'd never heard that.<br /><br />However there is no HBD angle. I know this because tonight on Facebook a liberal informed me that the industrial revolution occurred in Britain rather than India for purely 'cultural' reasons.<br /><br />So in the same vein perspective in art can only have arisen in Greece also due to 'cultural' factors.<br /><br />And thus the entire history of human acheivement is reduced to one simple and unfalsifiable theory. Hurrah!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-50448815665386378802010-05-15T17:17:54.150-07:002010-05-15T17:17:54.150-07:00thanks idealart - that was an interesting comment!...thanks idealart - that was an interesting comment!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-71201695814922023692010-05-15T16:57:16.223-07:002010-05-15T16:57:16.223-07:00Mr. Anon: I think that's actually a reference...Mr. Anon: I think that's actually a reference to the difference in terminology between the New York metro area ("on line," which I suspect has become confusing in the Internet age, although New Yorkers I know still say it) and the rest of the country ("in line"). An upper-crust Englishman would, at least traditionally, say "in the queue."James Kabalahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02335302113772004687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-18224227598131999542010-05-15T13:14:20.263-07:002010-05-15T13:14:20.263-07:00"I bought pistachios, ate them in line at the..."I bought pistachios, ate them in line at the post office. Or on line at the post office. I could no longer recall which phrase came naturally."<br /><br />That elicited a chuckle from me. I have often been amused at the pretensions of baby-boomer yuppies who started aping the speech patterns of the english or continental upper-crust. As if they had been "to the manor born", rather than what they really were - the children of blue-collar and lower middle-class parents who had moved out to some suburban sub-division.<br /><br />I'll have to check out the writings of this guy, Lipsyte. He sounds fairly clever.Mr. Anonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-43111822875796521322010-05-15T10:54:16.131-07:002010-05-15T10:54:16.131-07:00Which brings up another point those interested in ...Which brings up another point those interested in HBD might be interested in. The ancient Greeks discovered perspective far and away before any other people. They also invented oil painting and glazing by about 450 BC, long before it was rediscovered during the renaissance. This technique seems to go hand-in-hand with the ability to reproduce perspective, both linear and atmospheric.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-56691346489396819502010-05-15T10:39:33.600-07:002010-05-15T10:39:33.600-07:00Interesting writers who I haven't read yet. I ...Interesting writers who I haven't read yet. I will look into them.<br /><br />Apropos this article and HBD: has anyone done a study of why certain people can draw well and others can't?<br /><br />I taught life drawing for 7 years and I finally came to the conclusion that the people who couldn't learn to draw (realistically) had no innate sense of perspective. They could not visualize vanishing points and horizon lines, no matter how smart they were or how hard they tried. I believe this innate ability occurs around the age of 13 in certain people (maybe earlier but definitely by that age).<br /><br />People who cannot draw must view the world in a way similar to medieval art in that the closer objects are at the bottom of their field of vision.<br /><br />Has any scientific study shed light on this?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-90751190313012479472010-05-15T10:14:18.739-07:002010-05-15T10:14:18.739-07:00I was so busy commiserating with OneSTDV that I ne...I was so busy commiserating with OneSTDV that I neglected to add my appreciation for Dennis Dale's formidably fine writing. <br /><br /><br />And I'm glad to know I wasn't the only one put off by the other writers mentioned in this entry. That artsy-fartsy combination of loathing and self-loathing apparently has some literary appeal to which I'm completely impervious, thank God.Kylienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-89504133737346406532010-05-15T05:26:33.210-07:002010-05-15T05:26:33.210-07:00Dennis Dale is a fantastic writer, best in the blo...Dennis Dale is a fantastic writer, best in the blogsphere. He would benefit by doing something longer and a little more conventional which would lead him to chill out a bit and curb his tendency to overwrite in the shorter set-piece essays he does.MQhttp://m@q.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-30244239899246527112010-05-15T03:09:33.863-07:002010-05-15T03:09:33.863-07:00On a related note, Nancy Pelosi tells "creati...On a related note, Nancy Pelosi tells "creative" people they don't have to work:<br /><br />http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/65950lnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-53808634939795629752010-05-15T00:26:05.038-07:002010-05-15T00:26:05.038-07:00"That's not the elder Lipsyte explaining ..."That's not the elder Lipsyte explaining his reaction to the Columbine massacre, that's a reader writing to him."<br /><br />Right. Thanks. I'll change it to something where Lipsyte isn't just quoting with approval one of his readers views that the Columbine murder victims more or less had it coming, but is speaking directly in the first person.Steve Sailerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11920109042402850214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-79083846011632687782010-05-14T21:34:24.142-07:002010-05-14T21:34:24.142-07:00Although Ive seen DD post here I'd never gone ...Although Ive seen DD post here I'd never gone to his site before now. Great stuff.<br /><br />Slightly O/T.<br /><br />Whats happened to Albertosaurus, I dont seem to have seen him around for a while.<br /><br />You OK Bert?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-41772542105177979812010-05-14T20:57:53.978-07:002010-05-14T20:57:53.978-07:00'scuse me...didn't Tom Wolfe demolish this...'scuse me...didn't Tom Wolfe demolish this sophomoric twaddle years ago in "The Painted Word"?Jack Quinnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-58654059879927756032010-05-14T14:05:59.051-07:002010-05-14T14:05:59.051-07:00OneSTDV said...
"'(son of leftist sportsw...OneSTDV said...<br />"'(son of leftist sportswriter Robert Lipsyte)'<br /><br />What!??! Well thanks for ruining that cherished part of my childhood."<br /><br />You're not alone in having that experience. In my desperate effort to avoid the current Marxian malaise, I turned to rereading childhood favorites. Recently, I was thrilled to find a copy of one, a book by Troy Nesbit, <i>The Jinx of Payrock Canyon</i>, a modern Western set in Colorado, circa 1960 about teen boys learning to moutain climb. Great book. <br /> <br />I then made the fatal mistake of googling him. Turns out he's one Franklin Folsom, who also wrote about a black cowboy, the miseries suffered by American Indians, etc., which is fine, except I detected a distinct liberal slant. In other words, a lefty. Quel letdown! I don't have the heart to throw away my rediscovered childhood favorite. But I don't have the stomach to reread it, either.<br /><br />I guess it's back to Gene Autry on Encore Westerns.Kylienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-28833213544051135802010-05-14T13:15:52.938-07:002010-05-14T13:15:52.938-07:00"Jewish hostility in the tradition of Portnoy..."Jewish hostility in the tradition of Portnoy's Complaint and Annie Hall"<br /><br />I'm not sure PC and AH are really about Jewish hostility. They are more about self-pity and 'love me, love me, love me'.afafasdfsdfnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-55795332872705600422010-05-14T13:13:32.305-07:002010-05-14T13:13:32.305-07:00They made us read The Contender in 7th novel. Not ...They made us read The Contender in 7th novel. Not a bad book. Rather enjoyed it.asdfadfasfnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-70834175734103699352010-05-14T11:04:17.366-07:002010-05-14T11:04:17.366-07:00Steve, off topic here but you should really head o...Steve, off topic here but you should really head over to the Pacific Sherman Oaks 5 and see Harry Brown so that you can write a review. This movie really is a good riff on "How Much Ruin In A Nation? UK vs US White Working Class" <br /><br />Your post on "How Much Ruin" five years ago was really one of your all time greats, and this movie plays like an cinematic rendering of your post.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-40357633786141557942010-05-14T10:58:49.516-07:002010-05-14T10:58:49.516-07:00Robert Lipsyte, a sportswriter who takes pride in ...<b>Robert Lipsyte, a sportswriter who takes pride in hating athletes..."</b><br /><br />You ain't kidding. WTF?lnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-5771877853892020012010-05-14T10:16:40.532-07:002010-05-14T10:16:40.532-07:00"But there are mentally handicapped people wh..."But there are mentally handicapped people who draw and paint with far more technical skill than either of you."<br /><br />Didn't Gore Vidal say Andy Warhol was the only genius he ever met with an IQ of 60?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-47316898784594919422010-05-14T09:17:47.562-07:002010-05-14T09:17:47.562-07:00Dennis Dale has got the chops. When I read his bet...Dennis Dale has got the chops. When I read his better essays I am transported.<br /><br />I can appreciate Lipsyte's anxsty prose. How frustrating it must be to know you were selected by God to be a guiding light for all mankind until the coming of Moshiach (Messiah), to look around you and realize your tribe is the richest tribe on the face of the earth, and then to look in the mirror and realize you are just a work-a-day shmuck like all the goyim, grubbing for dollars and eating a sack lunch. Yeah, you can always feel superior to the Third Worlders imported into America, but then you have to face all those rich goyim, every day, begging for money.<br /><br />I think of poor Mark Rudd, who, according to his own account, was so eaten up by the calm self-assurance of the goyishe leadership that he dedicated his life to tearing them down ... and is still unhappy.<br /><br />One can understand why so many Jews are tempted to "go native" and marry shiksas. What a relief to just be able to relax and be a regular human being and not tasked by God to be a cosmic social worker and moral educator for one's entire life--to be a "good example" for eternity.Big billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-64576795656887520532010-05-14T07:59:56.101-07:002010-05-14T07:59:56.101-07:00That last paragraph pretty much sums up my nearly ...That last paragraph pretty much sums up my nearly 30-year professional career: I'm must not be petty enough to be successful. I guess I'm okay with that. <br /><br />Nice plug for Mr. Dale. He deserves it.Brent Lanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02603524747101364060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-91438918831423779152010-05-14T07:22:31.642-07:002010-05-14T07:22:31.642-07:00(son of leftist sportswriter Robert Lipsyte)
What...<i>(son of <b>leftist</b> sportswriter Robert Lipsyte)</i><br /><br />What!??! Well thanks for ruining that cherished part of my childhood.OneSTDVhttp://onestdv.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com