idal things we do for the sake of increasing our chances to score count as art. humans are curious creatures, and doing any non-reproduction/non-survival thing could arrouse the interests of another personal, who may even be female.
we find that we are good at some "art" type things, be they writing or singing or even just playing video games, and that by doing these things well people take an interests in us, including our bodies and reproductive organs. im of the opinion that cureosity is actually evolved from the selective process we are geneticly impelled to do to pick a mate. the problem is that we have a layer of conciousness over our level of animal awareness that cant quite figure out what about other people it is that the hindbraine is trying to tell them to look for. so we pay attention fo everything and everyone arround us, looking for people with genetic advantages, as evidenced by their ability to do something better than someone else (art).
to come back to the topic of art:
the idea of "personal style" shouldnt be hard to grasp. the way we do all sorts of causal things, the way we dress, the way we act about non-survival/reproductin things, ideas etc, are all art. we dont HAVE to do these things, like put a bounce in our step, we just chose to, and thus its art.
basicly, the Scott McClous thesis is "if you arnt eating it or fucking it, its art" |