RUSSIA !
Posted on 03/17/2018 10:01:20 AM PDT by Ge0ffrey
I watched this process unfold when I was living in Australia. Artists focussed their attention on niche culture wars issues that meant little to most Australians (the stand-out is an ugly annual rumpus over when to hold Australia Day, but there are plenty of others from which to choose). Arts funders, meanwhile, started ticking diversity boxes and did little else. Sales of literary fiction fell off a cliff, something paralleled, I note, in the UK.
Unsurprisingly, Arts Council England’s response to the sales drop over here was to seek tax relief for small publishers, coupled with more state funding for individual writers.
This is the Australian path. Follow it too far and oblivion beckons. First, the arts evince ever less viewpoint diversity. Then they become a plaything of politics (as has happened to a large degree already in Scotland, thanks to meddling by the SNP). Ultimately, too, there is the risk of destruction with surpassing swiftness if a politically hostile government comes to power. All it has to do is turn the money taps off. Australia’s current conservative government is fond of doing this.
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RUSSIA !
conservatives generally don’t read fiction, they read non-fiction.
liberals read fiction and apply the rules of PC to all of it.
IMO
Artists tap into their emotions for inspiration. Eventually, their emotion replaces their reason.
There are many highly talented conservative artists but the mainstream art world is a socio-political group with their main criteria for acceptance being social-politics.
If they like an "artists" socio-political views, they declare the person an artist and sell his/her work to people with no sense of taste yet have more money than brains.
This classic explains it:
https://www.amazon.com/Anti-Capitalistic-Mentality-Ludwig-Von-Mises/dp/1467934836
Those who cannot produce anything of real value to the human race hate those who can.
My impression is there are plenty of conservative artists who quietly do their work and sell their work to a discreet set of patrons.
socialist artists tend to be loudmouths and seek to attract attention precisely because no one wants to buy their junk.
dealers love the loudmouths because it’s sooo much easier to make money to new rich with more money than sense
Because we have real jobs.
MSM and the “in group” support radicals, reject conservatives?
Most artists are soyboys/girls.
It’s the side of the brain most dominant.
Stronger right brain?
Stronger left brain?
The choice is seldom yours, though some are able to teach themselves how to reverse the course which has been set for them.
Like minded persons tend to join together to find others most like themselves. Thus a community is formed. You are either a member, or not.
Groucho Marx quote:
I DON’T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT PEOPLE LIKE ME AS A MEMBER”.
Turning the money taps off would be a great good.
Real artist will make their art even if they have to be starving artist to do so. If they have to make choices about what to make they will probably make better choices than if all they have to do is suck up to the self appointed art mavens. Or maybe they’ll make worse choices. So what if it’s either?
But we shouldn’t be subsidizing art.
Cut it all off as far as public monies go.
It’s okay if individuals or private institutions want to be patrons with their own means and at their own initiative.
Along with the accolades of their peers, they’re no very deep thinkers.
Because conservatives don’t make a low-paying career out of their hobbies and insist that the taxpayers make up the difference out of charity.
I’m in an art group locally ... the leader is not only an awesome painter but a genuine sold-out Jesus freak :-) On Facebook I see her post some middle of the road to conservative thoughts ... and her fellow artists totally rip on her. Her graciousness under fire makes those responders look shrill and petty.
Relative folks are more self obsessed and conflicted and emotive
Exceptions yes but that’s the general rule
Creative not relative
But sadly it has kinda drifted into a theatre major/theatre major wannabees group. The people individually are very nice. But it has a lot of fairy-like guys now. Half of the women are the pissed off feminist types. I tried a production again a couple years ago, and it just didn't work for me.
Previously, I didn't really know the politics of most of my cohorts. We were just there to have a good time, have some laughs, and trying to give the community a different avenue for entertainment, and didn't really take ourselves to seriously.
My last go around was pretty painful personally. I do a pretty good job of connecting with people. But, and I still can't put my finger on it, I had a really hard time connecting with the cast. Just a different outlook on life. There wasn't a lot of "liberal" talk, but it just seemed like many were "fakey". Maybe that is just how theatre people are.
Once gays take hold of a particular group/industry, then it’s inevitable they will come to dominate said group.
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