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Originally posted by jigsaw
Dear JillH2001,
The fresh wind of sincerity is as a cold glass of water on the hot summer day. I recognize with gratitude the nature, worth and significance of your posting. I will not say that my agreement is harmonious with every aspect of your statement, but it does lay the fundamental groundwork for progressive discussion which is the pre-requisite for fruitful dialogue. I am a normal consignor at Christies and am currently working with Sotheby’s for the auctioning of a Russian piece that I own. The purpose of my post was to expose the arrogance of men who suppose that their position grants them authority to exercise pride and conceit above other men. They theoretically suppose and imagine that their academics are the precondition that qualifies their groundless opinions to be exalted as fact. Even museum curators are wrong at times and must consider their susceptibility to incline towards error. A prideful man uses his academics as the basis on which he builds opinions, while the basis of an honest man is integrity whereby he uses his academics as his building material.
Respectfully,
Jigsaw
Oddly enough, you and I are in complete agreement here (although you say it in such a way that ensures your phraseology has enough pomp to project this bizarre illusion of eloquence which is really verbose, unnecessarily flowery and makes you look like an a
ss)
You really can´t give much credence to what Jill says, as she is PRECISELY the sort of person who has absolutely no qualifications, yet always tries to put forth some kind of ´´opinion´´ even when she is laughably wrong (see the quote in my sigline? That is one of her gems)
She ´´agreed´´ with you because I have wounded her pride in the past and she tends to pop up to take the opposite side of whatever side I take not on merit, but just to be disagreeable and contratian. If I said the sky is blue, chances are she would pop up to say it´s wrong.
Having her on your side here isn´t a ´´cool glass of anything on a hot day´´. It´s being in very poor company.
Anyway...
It is true that the arts are infested with people who use ´´opinion´´ and subjectivity as a surrogate for fact. Advances in science have blown a lot of ´´opinions´´ out of the water in recent years, when items certified by ´´experts´´ have been revealed as being fakes and conversely, items dismissed as ´´forgeries´´ have been proven to be authentic in the very ways that were previously cited for their dismissal.
The problem you are running in to here is that you ask people for their opinions, then when you get them, you ask for their qualifications and then when they tell you their qualifications (which is something Jill cannot provide) you attempt to lambaste them on this idiotic premise that they are being boastful. That is just so logically fallicious that you cannot be taken seriously.
Compound this by the way you communicate (which itself is so over-the-top that is MUST be satire) and people are just going to have a hard time taking you seriously... Or, maybe I should say ´´the way you communicate is like a long set of well painted female fingernails raking gracefully across a chalkboard... Yet does the grace and beauty of the movement negate the annoyance of the sound the nails ultimately make?´´
