Kazimir Malevich, whose new Suprematist school of painting was to have its debut at the show, and Vladimir Tatlin, a founder of Constructivism, were in
violent disagreement over the validity of abstract art.
Following the Climate Change argument daily from a pro AGW position 7 years ago I have come to the conclusion that the specialisation of Science itself precludes agreement on a subject so all encompassing as Climate, it covers so many disciplines that there is no independant body that covers them all, even if there was, there is
violent disagreement between branches, i.e. Cosmology — gravity v electrical universe theory.
The reading pleasure that results from this conversation — different for different readers — is not merely the simple pleasure of hearing a good story, but the complex pleasures of strong feelings —
sometimes violent disagreement, sometimes frustration and sometimes a euphoric recognition, produced by Augustine's text, of the «beauty so ancient and so new,» to which Augustine points through the beauty of his prose.
That violent disagreement is exactly what any clever enemy of the U.S. would most want.