Dear Robert

Thank you for your response. I want to talk about my understanding of dialogue. It is all very well having no "central authority" but what do you do when someone steals your car, punches you in the face and threatens your life.  You appeal to a "central authority"- the police, your lawyer, the constitution etc. It is easy for computers to talk to one another, [...]

Thanks for following our "dialogue". It was not so much the content of Steven's comment that got up my nose- sure, I had made quite a serious error in observation, but extrapolated nothing offensive about the work from that.  What bothered me was the tone, which incidentally is the same tone you accuse me of adopting in my "aspirant art critic" ramblings . [...]

Erich Fromm, humanist, and author of Escape from Freedom? No, but he looks very interesting.  Being and compassion.  Non-being and wrath. Terry Eagleton has some interesting ideas on this. Funny guy. Pure being for him, is absolute, fascist and narcissistic, and non-being (desire, lack, knowledge of mortality) a fact that we as human beings must necessarily confront. [...]