sounds like ithaca... you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
Posted on 11/24/2013 2:30:43 PM PST by ReformationFan
In my opinion, I think it’s because libs like to live in fantasyland a/k/a the only place where their ideas actually work.
They can have most of it, i sure would not want it.
Because that is an area taken over by the marxists in the 1920's/1930's and perpetuated to this day by academic tenure which is nothing more than an ideological vetting process.
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Because working for a living sucks.
commies took refuge there.
unionistas took refuge there (with their commie buddies).
naive idealists took refuge there, to ‘change the world’ and ‘influence society’.
people with grudges and radical agendas took refuge there, to ‘change the world’ and ‘influence society’.
There are different arts - visual, literary, performing. Which do you not like?
“WHY DO LIBS OWN THE ARTS?”
i’m trying to think of anything in the public square that they don’t own.
anyone? anyone?
sounds like ithaca... you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
The inverse of why conservatives own work.
She’s onto something. They desperately need to appear avant-garde.
That’s why there’s a program in every university called ‘LIBERAL ARTS”. That’s how I got into my uni in Communications then jumped to my Business major. The worst part is attending non-relevant and idiotic mandatory subjects in Literature. The good part is that the quality of girls looks-wise went up but the thinking power was at the level of rocks.
I guess that depends on what you call “art”
There are a lot of artists at FR but according to some we’re just a bunch of bums looking for a handout despite never applying for a grant or any other form of taxpayer money.
“An artist is a businessperson - they hate it, but it’s true -’
Oh you hit one out of the park. I have a disabled (truly not a fake disability) liberal friend that is an artist. He paints some hideous portraits that supposedly show the human condition. He shows that work in galleries and such in Western Pennsylvania. He gets raves from the critics but seldom sells any of those works. He supports himself by painting generic landscapes that he sells for $100.00 each at flea markets and that he signs with a different name. He can sell 5 of those a week and they take him about 1 to 1.5 hours to paint.
He complains that nobody buys his real art and how he feels like a prostitute selling “over the sofa pictures”
He got sort of miffed when I suggested that art is what the patron buying it says it is rather than what the artist says it is.
So they get all feely and they do some arts thingies. Then they go out and vote for Obama because Obama makes them feeeel so good.
Because no conservative is stupid enough to call Jesus in a jar of urine art.
Among actors, for example, strong male leads tend to be more conservative than their professional colleagues. Their acting style if often criticized as wooden or understated, unlike emotion driven method actors.
Life experience matters though, such as with Robert Downey, Jr., who went from liberal to conservative due to his experiences as a drug addict. This supports the observation that conservatism is grounded in the sometimes harsh realities of life.
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