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<blockquote data-quote="HaroldTheHobbit" data-source="post: 8875376" data-attributes="member: 7031679">Shure. Despite your snarky and sarcastic tone I will enlighten you.Regarding pottery it has an interesting history, from purely functional containers, via vessels with religious and sociocultural connotations, to todays hypercommercialized products. But besides being a product, pottery has since the arts and craft movement in the late 19th century also been a medium for self expression with a therapeutic function for the bourgeois. And precisely that dualism is why pottery - far removed from antique greek urns - is still interesting today.Skydiving is largely a mystery to me, not the least because I get vertigo by standing on a kitchen table. The most interesting aspect of it though is that it's part of the cult of physical kicks, an expression of the hunt for meaning in late modernity's commodification of the self. If you are interested I can tell you more about my thoughts about that.Deep-sea diving is another expression of the above, but in another direction, towards a more spiritual direction. On the other hand, exploring the deep blue also has both scientific meaning and connotations of capitalism. In these days of over-exploitation of the earth the deep sea still is both virgin grounds for exploration and a sense of mystery, and maybe the last area to rape for material gain. It's complicated.If you think that I have written something wrong in a thread, a friendly reminder goes a long way, to keep up the tone I guess you want in your forum. Or maybe the snarky reply should be interpreted as an example you want us to follow?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="HaroldTheHobbit, post: 8875376, member: 7031679"] Shure. Despite your snarky and sarcastic tone I will enlighten you. Regarding pottery it has an interesting history, from purely functional containers, via vessels with religious and sociocultural connotations, to todays hypercommercialized products. But besides being a product, pottery has since the arts and craft movement in the late 19th century also been a medium for self expression with a therapeutic function for the bourgeois. And precisely that dualism is why pottery - far removed from antique greek urns - is still interesting today. Skydiving is largely a mystery to me, not the least because I get vertigo by standing on a kitchen table. The most interesting aspect of it though is that it's part of the cult of physical kicks, an expression of the hunt for meaning in late modernity's commodification of the self. If you are interested I can tell you more about my thoughts about that. Deep-sea diving is another expression of the above, but in another direction, towards a more spiritual direction. On the other hand, exploring the deep blue also has both scientific meaning and connotations of capitalism. In these days of over-exploitation of the earth the deep sea still is both virgin grounds for exploration and a sense of mystery, and maybe the last area to rape for material gain. It's complicated. If you think that I have written something wrong in a thread, a friendly reminder goes a long way, to keep up the tone I guess you want in your forum. Or maybe the snarky reply should be interpreted as an example you want us to follow? [/QUOTE]

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