Is Life Art?

[Walker]

Please put me on <Ignore>, Mick!

I think this is interesting.
Perhaps you will, too.

The song Merzy Dotes and Dozy Dotes popped into the noggin apropos of nothing and stuck there as an earworm for a couple of days. And for some inexplicable reason, perhaps because of the state of my psyche and a continuing penchant for Dada, I just tossed it into that posting up there without a care in the world.

So, I just checked it out with a bit of research. The ditty was written in 1943 and recorded in 1944, and we know what was happening then.

Think of it. The whole world was on fire, really on fire, and this light-hearted nonsense song was popular. I don't know how popular, but it was published and recorded and because of the times, probably earned some money.

Was the song an antidote to hell on earth?
Or, did it reveal the effects of hell in a way other than moaning oh the agony of de feet. (From all the marching in those days.)

[Walker]

Please put me on <Ignore>, Mick!

the dynamics of reverse psychology in dialogue ...

- Grist for the mill ...
- Think about it. Everything written will eventually be grist for the mill to be made into a soup of thought.
- This can only work when a purpose is involved, otherwise it's just random, recorded chaos ... and work justifies cost ... because costs these days don't justify the work ... or do they?

Conceding the benefit of a doubt to the old saying that everything happens for the best, because everything one writes here will be floating in some answer to some machine's query at some time, so write good things so the machine can be the judge.

Think about it, though. How much physical room would be required to store every digitization of the universe? It does appear to be a miniaturization of everything, so wouldn't that take all the room, so where to put everything else, all the infinite real stuff that hasn't been shrunk down and stored everywhere there is?

Hmm. What do you say?

[Walker]

Was the song an antidote to hell on earth?
Or, did it reveal the effects of hell in a way other than moaning oh the agony of de feet. (From all the marching in those days.)

Answer: I think in it's own small way, it was a wrench in the machine.

What do you think?

[MikeNovack]

Think of it. The whole world was on fire, really on fire, and this light-hearted nonsense song was popular. I don't know how popular, but it was published and recorded and because of the times, probably earned some money.

It was exceedingly popular. Almost half a million copies of the sheet music sold in the first few weeks after the song was aired.Easy to look that up. Weren't you curious to do so.

[Walker]

Think of it. The whole world was on fire, really on fire, and this light-hearted nonsense song was popular. I don't know how popular, but it was published and recorded and because of the times, probably earned some money.

It was exceedingly popular. Almost half a million copies of the sheet music sold in the first few weeks after the song was aired.Easy to look that up. Weren't you curious to do so.

I was ... eliciting, so I didn't bother to check.

What do you make of the fact that nonsense was popular during a time of actual naturalism, as naturalism is defined artistically?