responses to 'the cheese monkeys' and 'The Heresy of Zone Defense'

What caught my interest about the cheese monkey is the four forms people concern when they create arts: left to right, top to bottom, big and small, and back and front. This is the exact procedure how our brains function in daily life in a space dimension. We choose to evaluate things and come up with solutions using our normal sense and instinct about the space, the form, the appearance first and then, maybe consider how time zone could be detriment or benefit to us. When we meet someone new, we look from head to shoes. When we write down journals, we write from left to right. That’s how people think and what people do. So artists improvise with their specialties and prolong their creation using the time zone to control our emotions.

What I don’t like about his opinions is that he compares the admirers or audiences as enemies. This really bothers me. Any form of art is not about invasion or intrusion; it’s about sharing and compelling. A good piece of art may put a spell on people, but that’s because it creates resonance and people can’t help but being printed by it. True artists are peace lovers even though they could be extremists…

The Heresy of Zone Defense talks about the meaning of rules. I appreciate how the writer could analyze how rules manipulate or purify our lives from a dialectical perspective. Rules are supposed to simplify our routines and by following the rules, each of us can earn the best interest out of the inputs we have donated in the means the rules require. But sometimes, rules hurt people, just like it ceases the real fun of playing basketball.

There is one point that I cannot completely agree. It doesn’t make us barbarians if we don’t set up or follow rules. Rules are set up by humans, and the only initial purpose of doing it was to protect our species, our bothers and sisters. Although nowadays some of us may exploit and take advantage of kindness of humans, or someone deliberately ‘improvise’ their ways of dealing with rules with less regard of general interest, barbarians are way too ancient and harsh to the modernized human beings.