Moses was High
Out of context: Reply #193
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Admittedly things do get a bit stupid here in the religious/political threads, and this is a design board ultimately. And I'm a good user of both topics in threads bercause, well those areras interest me outside of design as well. In fact, I think my knowledge of those two areas can't help influence design. Design now is spoken about like it's this thing all to itself, when infact throughout much of history design, if it can even be called that, was used for political and religious purposes. Most art/craft was done at the behest of patrons - usually the State or the Church. To ignore discussing those topics I think does a disservice overall. Way back when I was in college (long time ago, galaxy far away), I was a poly-sci major in what is a huge visual arts/music school (SUNY Purchase). My education on that level was such that politics and religion and design and art all mixed together and I was far richer for that. The learning informed each other. One only has to look art the work of a Mapplethorpe or a Piss-Christ or the Soviets or the Nazis or the Catholic Church, ad naseum, (or even our current culture which divorces art/design from the spiritual/collective in pursuit ofr the commercial/individual) to see that art and religion and politics are one big swirly mess.