I’m involved in the realist branch of painting, and I have to say there are an incredible number of exceptional painters working today … not one could be described as mediocre.
]]>I think the potential for happiness is proportional to the level of self-responsibility. Whether that happiness occurs or not (a “good life”) is only about the decision (to resent or enroll oneself) about the responsibilities chosen.
]]>Isn’t mediocrity by definition the same as average? If you mean what used to be average is not what it is now, I agree, and so what. How could anyone fairly pick one arbitrary point and call is “the standard”.
]]>I wish I had had the opportunity to benefit from your collective wisdom last night, as the question this month is one that I’ve been pondering recently. Also a related one: whether striving for excellence, or perhaps even striving at all, is requisite to living a “good life.”
I wish you all an enjoyable passing of the remaining weeks of summer. I’ll see you in September.
]]>A shout out to one of our missing ‘regulars,’ Candice, you were missed.
Hello to Lara and Sebastian — hope you join in again.
I wonder if mediocrity has ever not been the norm?
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