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But that's because I belong to the camp he's specifically arguing against: the "minimal realists," who think the country doesn't have to accept every symbolic challenge.
It is likely that one's taste deteriorates under the continuous barrage of vulgarity: many who today admire the dadaists, cubists, surrealists, hard-edge realists, nonobjective and abstract artists would have reviled them, along with a significant percentage of the population, had they been dalive when their paintings first appeared, just as staid, conservative critics condemned the impressionists and advocates of other nouvelles vagues . Is it that we gradually become accustomed to what we first perceive as trash--as vulgarity--and become inured to it, or that we come to understand and, if not enamored of it, at least tolerate it as a legitimate form of expression?
Idealists don't like the way it's being fought; realists think we shouldn't have started it in the first place.
Idealists believe in subjective resolve; realists believe in objective constraints.
Idealists preach responsibility and courage, which realists dismiss as hubris and folly.