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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chimera" data-source="post: 1878018" data-attributes="member: 2002">In reading bits of the conversation between Storm Raven and others I am reminded of an experience I had back in 1988.I was in a bar with some friends.  I ended up talking to a man with a very pretentious name - certainly not the one he was born with.  I no longer remember the name, only that fact about it.  It was getting close to the election, which was between George Bush Sr and (I believe) Michael Dukakis.  Mr. Pretentious spent the better part of two hours harranging me and anyone who would listen on the subject.  (One of those people whose words only come out in Sneer and Contempt.)A bit later the subject turned to Art.  He asked me about a certain famous piece that had been in the news.  I said it was crap, that I didn't consider it to be Art.  (again, I don't remember the piece)  Mr. Pretentious asks me how long I'd studied Art.  I tell him that I haven't studied Art at all, but I know what I like and don't like.Mr. Pretentious then launches into a harrangue about how, if I haven't studied Art, if I don't know the History of Art, then I am not entitled to have an opinion about Art!Gazing carefully off into the distance, I asked him how long he had studied Political Science.  "Why, not at all!  Why would I study that?" was basically his horrified response."Then you are not entitled to have an opinion about this election, are you?"And I walked off, leaving his jaw hanging down to the floor.</blockquote>

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