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I’m currently reading “Outlines of Scepticism” by Sextus Empiricus, written around 100AD.  Sextus here is collecting thoughts of Pyrrho of Elis, who was too real to write; he just lived it.   Pyrrho developed Scepticism after some exposure to Eastern philosophy, while on adventures with Alexander the Great into India in 327 B.C.

I finished reading “The Triumph of Anti-Art” by Thomas McEvilley, which argues “art as life” overthrew Modernism with Conceptual and Performance Art.  Marcel Duchamp pioneered anti-art in 1912 after discovering Scepticism. The art of the 60-70’s that debunked Modernism was informed by Duchamp.  The art that debunked Modernism is my favorite sort, and you can draw a precarious line to the present with people like Francis Alys and fellow [street] artists.  Precarious, because street rabble don’t trust the capital “A” Art tradition.  But it turns out there’s a tradition inside this tradition that doesn’t trust it either.