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Once again, Professor Miano, you have provided us with the information needed to show that Gobekli Tepe was most likely the result of a natural, gradual increase in knowledge from the hunter gatherer civlizations and I would imagine if time travel became a possible way to see it for ourselves, we would see the hunter gatherers as much more multi-dimensional with board games and all sorts of kit that has never made it to our time. They are getting labeled as nothing more than foraging tribes of people incapable of complex thought or imagination; the human mind I am sure back then was just as full of ideas as in the present day---and maybe even more so, because we have practically buried things like intuition whereas older civilizations probably relied on the sixth sense to get a lot things done. What probably was the case was that hunter gatherer tribes had elaborate settlements that followed the seasons i.e., followed the game and there was undoubtedly a sophisticated society albeit a traveling one, and these settlements were gobbled up by father time and nothing is left. Gobekli Tepe looks to me more like primitive hands were the architects of structures that I am sure were easily imagined, deftly constructed and nothing new to the people of the time. We must remember one thing that all of us can never know and that is that 'time' as we know it didn't exist. Languages probably only had the present tense. Building sites like Gobekli Tepe might have taken a century, but for the people of that era, there was no century, you simply drew your plans in the sand every day and worked until it was finished.
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You are doing everyone a great service. One thing, I don't know if you have thought about it much, but one thing that keeps coming to my mind about assailants and people who turn into violent criminals is how does that happen? I suppose that is a naïve way of looking at all the people who commit crimes, but it beggar's belief that we all grow up in the same society and yet there are those who end up preying on others and ruining other people's lives by attacking them. A student of mine was in South Africa and she was in a restaurant with her husband and they were going to go out for a walk and the waitress said, 'Mam, you better take off that watch you are wearing." My student said, "But it's a Swatch and only worth a little bit of money." The waitress said, "They won't even ask you to give them your watch, they will hack your hand off with a machete and take it." When I heard that, it just made you want to throw up that someone would actually cause bodily harm in stealing a cheap watch. But this is our world, and we don't have another one.
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Thank you for investigating the world of art. Fortunately everyone still has the right to one’s opinion. But Mark Rothko’s square spot paintings certainly have a place in modern art, but let’s get real. He may have listened to Mozart but he sure didn’t get influenced by him. Rothko’s art reflects more a bass and drum loop, going over and over and never changing. Peter Paul Rubens would be my choice as a reflection of Mozart’s music, the detail in Rubens’ early work is breathtaking in it’s intricacy and fine workmanship. Slapping on colors with a roller made Rothko an icon, Gerard Schroeder’s squeegee painting is another example of mechanically produced painting, but who am I to criticize their works which fetch hundreds of millions of dollars. Still, how long before one would get bored having a Rothko painting in one’s living room? Lastly, we see that ‘Beeple’, an artist who had been selling his digital paintings for a hundred bucks a crack, sold one for 69 million dollars on line. Boys and girls, it looks like the art world is becoming a mockery of itself.
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