Zhao, I've just noticed that you've rather dishonestly changed what you said in a post I'd already quoted:
but we are talking about art here. to mention fucking islamic terrorism like a good state trained puppy is out of place, stupid and has nilch do with with jack shit.
Well hang on mate, you can't have it both ways. You were trashing Greek art and, by extension, the entire culture and its world-view, blaming it for "the destructive course we find ourselves on today" - apparently Plato invented global warming and the credit crunch - while praising art from the Middle East, both from the Islamic era and earlier, for supposedly representing the antithesis of this. Now your thesis might hold some water if modern-day Greece and other countries that are in some way culturally descendant from Greek thought were benighted, backwards-looking dictatorships while those of the Middle East, with all their humility and cosmic transcendence, were much more progressive and peaceful. Now I'm not saying any western culture is a paradigm of excellence, by
any means, but when I'm out somewhere with my girlfriend she isn't wrapped from head to foot in black cloth and walking a respectful dozen paces behind me, you know what I'm saying? If you're going to be as culturally partisan as you are, it would do you credit not to blow your top when other people have biases based on different priorities and criteria from yours. Calling a culture that produced Homer, Aristotle and Archimedes "simple-minded" merely betrays exactly the sort of ignorance and prejudice you're so quick to damn in others.
And YOU mentioned terrorism, I didn't say anything of the sort.