I'm a writer and I love to hang out with other writers or at least I used to. Now I go to workshops or conferences and it's all woke and victim ideology. I want to start my own writers community or like minded artists someday.
My theory on this is similar to everything we experience right now: The compliance creative people are forced into (else be canceled) causes an appearance of homogeneity, where none truly exists.
"Artists [are] 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 and service of the people and organizations poised to plunge this country into chaos and ruin."
Detroit (I'm sure you know) hasn't cornered the market on those folks. When they don't land public money, they're the first to say, "Don't screw the artist!" ignoring (or not knowing) taxpayers are being "screwed" to support them. And they'll decry "evil" wherever they think they find it, without doing anything to combat it and without recognizing they're as much a part of the problem as they are of the system.
It's virtue-signaling for profit — with no sense of the irony in that one man's profit is another man's loss.
Beautifully written thanks Nick. So, IMHO/experiences, we each make our own realities, and most people seem unsettled by fear; mostly of dying, which is natural to a point, but very unnatural and counter-productive beyond. Among the yin yang of everything, arts and creativity become self-indulgent addictions of avoidance, and nearly all of the most successful creative artists in any field become part of the system that they believed they were protesting about; prisoners of a materialistic celebrity jail they build themselves. And so the celebrity wannabe hall of mirrors persuades lots more folk to stay blind to the biggest opportunities for emotional growth. Stay safe and create, because it postpones the inevitable scary stuff, until avertable chronic illness and big pharma sedate the soul irretrievably; and then maybe we try living and learning these lessons reborn in another human skin.
I'm a writer and I love to hang out with other writers or at least I used to. Now I go to workshops or conferences and it's all woke and victim ideology. I want to start my own writers community or like minded artists someday.
My theory on this is similar to everything we experience right now: The compliance creative people are forced into (else be canceled) causes an appearance of homogeneity, where none truly exists.
As an artist, I can tell state w/ confidence, the Spirit of "Punk Rock" is well and truly dead.
"Artists [are] 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 and service of the people and organizations poised to plunge this country into chaos and ruin."
Detroit (I'm sure you know) hasn't cornered the market on those folks. When they don't land public money, they're the first to say, "Don't screw the artist!" ignoring (or not knowing) taxpayers are being "screwed" to support them. And they'll decry "evil" wherever they think they find it, without doing anything to combat it and without recognizing they're as much a part of the problem as they are of the system.
It's virtue-signaling for profit — with no sense of the irony in that one man's profit is another man's loss.
It’s one of the least-explored forms of corruption that exists in the world today.
Beautifully written thanks Nick. So, IMHO/experiences, we each make our own realities, and most people seem unsettled by fear; mostly of dying, which is natural to a point, but very unnatural and counter-productive beyond. Among the yin yang of everything, arts and creativity become self-indulgent addictions of avoidance, and nearly all of the most successful creative artists in any field become part of the system that they believed they were protesting about; prisoners of a materialistic celebrity jail they build themselves. And so the celebrity wannabe hall of mirrors persuades lots more folk to stay blind to the biggest opportunities for emotional growth. Stay safe and create, because it postpones the inevitable scary stuff, until avertable chronic illness and big pharma sedate the soul irretrievably; and then maybe we try living and learning these lessons reborn in another human skin.
So true! It is definitely a womb-like world that’s safe and warm with minimal threats.
They're all mindless sissys. How could their work come from the heart and soul if they have no heart and soul.
And if you have the courage to think for yourself or say what's on your mind, you've sold out.
When did Art (fart) get so cringe?
What are your thoughts on his recent fame?