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[Capntastic]

Not really.

[Pnx]

So it's basically about being so obtuse that even the person who writes it can't really understand what they're trying to say?

[Capntastic]

Nope.

[Max White]

Capntastic: Oh my gawd, you guys are so mainstream you just wouldn't understand!

[nenjin]

I think that makes you a true Dadaist.  Or wait, their manifesto already says that Dada is against Dada.  That makes you a traditional Dadaist, and dada hates tradition.

The People's Dada of Judea, amirite?

[Capntastic]

Capntastic: Oh my gawd, you guys are so mainstream you just wouldn't understand!

Incorrect.

[Sensei]

Dada is born of the idea that the world does not "deserve" art, and so targets above all those would try to glean meaning or artistic value from it, in presenting itself truly as a work of art. Most of all it targets those who would seek to understand it, of course they will not explain. You have to simply 'get' it, on your own, but if you get something out of it you're really betraying the idea behind the piece which is of course that there is no idea behind the piece. But you can't do it without some good ideas.

[Max White]

Meta irony... Recursive hypocrisy... HEADSPOSIONS!!!

[Capntastic]

Getting warmer.

[Max White]

Dammit, I was doing my best to not get the point as a form of protest against anything so up itself it is based on the ideal that the world doesn't deserve art. Bullshit, now get your toilet out of my museum!