Distinguish between true and false

[Inscription on the Water Lane] What reason does Busia want to say with the absurd fables of Bohes? And recall the doctrine of Plato. If Plato believed that most of the artworks belonged to bad images and that the poets must be expelled from the Utopia, Busia wanted to point out that the world is already full of all kinds of bad images, and that there are also bad images like Andy Warhol (Andy Warhol) ) like Campbell’s soup cans, which are constantly mass-produced and self-replicating, so that they devour life, and the distinction between true and false gradually loses its meaning. Busia sighed: "People in the world no longer look at each other, but institutions do it for them. No more touching, but massage therapy. No longer walking, but jogging and so on. The lost faculties and the lost body are recycled everywhere. , lost communication, or lost taste."

Les gens ne se regardent plus, mais il ya des instituts pour ça. Ils ne se touchent plus, mais il ya la contactothérapie. Ils ne marchent plus, mais ils font du jogging, etc. Partout on recycle les facultés perdues, ou le corps perdu, ou la socialité perdue, ou le goût perdu de la nourriture. (Baudrillard)

Mimics are bad images because of their ability to mislead or even deceive. In Plato's dialogues "The Wise Men", he used works of art as an example to explain what a bad image is. He said that when some artists made large-scale sculptures or painted paintings, they would deliberately distort the original proportions in pursuit of a more beautiful effect. You might wonder, is it wrong for the artist to pursue the effect of beauty? Isn't it good to have art all around your life? Turning to Busia's criticism, isn't a massage or jogging part of a healthy life? How can the truth be blinded by massage or jogging?

Plato's rejection of works of art is due to its special era background, and it is difficult to discuss in detail here. In short, he certainly does not reject beauty, he just does not allow the beauty of the replica to overshadow the beauty of the original. He cares more about truth than poets. As the philosopher Deleuze said in his famous treatise "Platon et le simulacre" (Platon et le simulacre), the motive of Plato's doctrine is faire la différence, the distinction between the original and the image, the noumenon and the reproduction. Taste. And Plato was living in an era when the distinction between truth and falsehood has not yet been established, and the poet may have the ability to "bewitch the crowd".

En termes très généraux, le motif de la théorie des Idées doit être cherché du côté d'une volonté de sélectionner, de trier. Il s'agit de faire la différence. la copie, le modèle et le simulacre. (Deleuze)

In this way, Busia's doctrine can be described as a mourning for the loss of this discernment. So what does Busia think is true? (to be continued)