Give us a smile, pussycat.

I have found photos of Susan smiling, but she looks so much cooler when she's not.

The earliest experience of art must have been that it was incantatory, magical; art was an instrument of ritual. The earliest theory of art, that of the Greek philosophers, proposed that art was mimesis, imitation of reality.

It is at this point that the peculiar question of the value of art arose. For the mimetic theory, by its very terms, challenges art to justify itself.

- Susan

Was Leni Riefenstahl just copying something human that we don't care to praise? Or is praise of this kind of art actually immoral?

Three things. Firstly, if you google image Sexy Nazi (don't ask), you end up with pictures of Asian women in Nazi uniforms. Secondly, while I was in Japan a restaurant in Korea had to close because it had chosen to go with a Nazi theme for its decor. Thirdly, I went to a restaurant in Osaka a couple of times called Christon (Christ-on).