"People who don't work with their hands are parasites" and other truisms by Jenny Holzer

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by psnajder • 18 years ago

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sanj• 18 years ago

I stopped reading after:

"a man can't know what it is to be a mother"

That's true at a precise level. But more valuable is:

"a man can know what it is to be a parent"

and I think that's a much more valuable statement.

I pretty much recall this exact discussion happening during the VP debate.

hugh• 18 years ago

These could be significantly improved by superimposing them over pictures of cats.

jhancock• 18 years ago

I don't even now why I'm replying but to say, "I couldn't have said it better!!!" ;) where is the tiled animated cats background and the cute music?

rgrieselhuber• 18 years ago

I'm thinking blinking text and a few marquis tags thrown in for good measure. Now I have a headache.

aasarava• 18 years ago

For those who aren't familiar with the name, Jenny Holzer is a conceptual artist (so take these truisms with a grain of salt): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Holzer

I was first introduced to Holzer's work when I found the "Green Table" in the corner of a courtyard at UC San Diego. It's engraved with the following statement:

"IN A DREAM YOU SAW A WAY TO SURVIVE AND YOU WERE FULL OF JOY"

MaysonL• 18 years ago

The horror, the horror.

The freakin after-images...

mynameishere• 18 years ago

Can one of the eight people who unmodded this explain themselves?

EDIT: No, no. Quit downmodding me and explain why you upmodded that website. I'm just curious. It seems really dumb and really offtopic, both.

DougBTX• 18 years ago

You're probably being downmodded because you wrote "unmodded" instead of "upmodded", which sounds like it means "downmodded" - reversing the meaning of your question.

Anyway, this article probably looks good to people who are looking for Truth, but don't want to spend a lot of time thinking bout it, hence bite-size truthiness. It does intrigue me that they are alphabetised...

Prrometheus• 18 years ago

I don't get it either.

bayareaguy• 18 years ago

Accept loss as a universal force.

lucraft• 18 years ago

Good thing I type all day then.

shader• 18 years ago

If you need a quick fix for the terrible style, paste this in your address bar, or run it via firebug:

javascript: function f(){s=document.body.style;s.backgroundColor="white";s.color="black";s.fontSize="10pt";s.fontFamily="arial";}f();

SwellJoe• 18 years ago

Even better: Skip the site entirely.

I want those 38 seconds back.

"People who don't work with their hands are parasites" and other truisms by Jenny Holzer

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