The Demise of the Avant Garde and the thrilling romance of orthodoxy

 

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i iIS   there anything more dull,opportunistic,and sterile than to succumb to the superego in-junction of incessantly inventing new artistic transgressions and provocations (the performance artist masturbating on stage,or masochistically cutting himself;the sculptor displaying decaying animal corpses or human excrement) or the parallel injunction to engage in more and more “daring”forms of sexuality

which makes one think of Chesterton's matrix the  “thrilling romance of 

orthodoxy” People have fallen into a foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy,humdrum,and safe.There never was anything so perilous or so ex-citing as orthodoxy

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