If everything is art, nothing is art, if everything is political, nothing is political; Being a linguist, I think that words have given meanings, that can always change, develop or be modified. But as soon as you apply a word to everything, or even its opposite, it entirely loses its meaning. As, e.g., "freedom and democracy", nowadays mean "bombs on Iraq", a very popular strategy of mistreating words in political discourse. Another strategy of abusing words is the one employed by believers in astrology or psychoanalysis, to stretch the meaning to make a controverse reality fit in their systems.
So why not call everything a tomato soup? Campbell's would be very glad about that.
And if art is joy, sensuality, pleasure, aesthetics, thought, criticism, dialogue etc. , what I think it is, why label it with the term that has the sex appeal of an income tax declaration? That is like the mania in psychology where everything is labeled "work" the last decades, maybe it is the desire to give value to something considered as worthless, such as emotions? Or trading up art?
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