I’m tired of artists

(In American cities)

You’re living in the period that will completely define a generation, and the way you choose to respond will determine what kind of world your children live in.

I’m not talking about the climate on the surface of the Earth, I’m talking about the rise of unchallenged tyranny.

Yesterday my wife and I had a conversation about “artists.” In a city like Detroit there exist many artists who believe their work is “instrumental,” or those who claim to be fighting for ideas like “social justice.” There are also many who simply “don’t care about politics.” What they seem to share in common is an ideology, which is for the most part a progressive liberal narrative about diversity, equality, and good-personism. It’s a template that’s mutually enforced; by education, patrons, and social circles.

I said to my wife: “I’m tired of artists.”

Her face told me she took it personally; she is one.

I tried to explain, but it was hard. Of course I can’t make any special case for why artists specifically are a problem, but it seems there’s something that’s happened in the last few decades where creative people have ceased to be part of the dissident class and are instead now status quo enforcers and supporters of tyrannical ideas like rampant censorship and the excommunication of the unvaccinated.

I guess what it boils down to is voice.

If you have one, today I see no excuse for you not to use it for anti-tyrannical purposes. Creative people often have a voice, and I find it repugnant today when I see artists living off the art dole money and just floating like dandelion seeds in some progressive “community-bridging” ether their entire lives. They just want everyone to get along. They’re doing inclusive, cross-cultural arts education! They’re creating “beauty.” And yet, in the same stroke of the brush they’re deliberately oblivious and compliant, in direct support of and service to the people and organizations poised to plunge this country into chaos and ruin. The people who will summarily revoke the freedoms of speech and expression that artists depend on, and turn this place into nothing but a chamber of horrors.

The artists just want people to get along. (Except for the bad people; no one should get along with them!)

Almost NO artist in a city like Detroit today is truly self-sufficient, where they’re living off the sales of their art product. They mostly have help. And the help isn’t good. It’s coming from literal money laundering operations in the world of fine arts foundations and NGO/government programs. People with very specific ideological objectives which are strictly enforced.

It’s lazy. It’s compliant. And it’s making everything immeasurably worse.

I deeply value the contributions of artists to our world past and present, but when it comes to cities like Detroit if I’m being honest I’m tired of artists. There’s no more time for floating in the lazy river. If you ask me (and who ever would!) they should be getting angry and ugly, speaking up, fighting these tyrants tooth and nail, not suckling drowsily at their teat.