Posted on 10/20/2024 11:06:34 AM PDT by thecodont
If we are to take back the culture, it is our job to define aesthetics and what is beautiful.
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It’s a lot more than that.
The commies know what is beautiful and what is ugly. They want to substitute ugliness permanently.— From the list of 45 communist goals for the USA
- Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings: substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.”
- Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness: repulsive, meaningless art.”
- Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press.
- Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
- Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”
- Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a “religious crutch.”
- Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state.”
- Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
- Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the “common man.”
- Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the “big picture.” Give more emphasis to Russian (& Chinese) history since the communists took over.
- Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture—education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc. …
I have a couple of Super-8 movie cameras. They’re not much good right now.
I’m convinced this was intentionally done by the powers that be in the 90s with grunge ‘slit your wrists’ music and degenerate (c)rap being pushed on the populace as ‘normal’ and ‘popular’.
I remember the phrase “heroin chic” being bandied around back then.
I lived thorugh it as a young man and i’m very angry at what they did... the 80s were peak american culture and they set about to destroy it in the 90s. But strangely, in retrospect, the 90s weren’t as bad as what we have for an alleged ‘culture’ today... we’re in bad shape
Well, I wouldn’t call stuff like Culture Club (ironically named) “peak culture”, to be frank. (Boy George O’Dowd openly bragged about being a drag queen back then.)
Nor would I call hair metal bands peak US culture. (Bands like Poison wearing heavier makeup than Boy George, ad nauseam.)
I might note that “peak culture” can seldom be found on mass media. You generally have to look for it.
I have a Mamiya C330, a 56x56mm twin lens reflex camera. If it hadn’t been for a stroke I’d still use it.
So instead of just using my phone, I can buy $6,000 worth of photography equipment and do it the old way. I’m not photograph a lot of models so I don’t see much upside to this.
That said, Photomat booth’s may make a comeback.
Sounds like the work list of Democrat
Manchurian Candidate Barack Hussein Obama
Sorry about the poor editing.
It is still so sobering to read that long list of Communist goals. Every time, I have a hard time believing its reality today.
fair points. libtards have always been with us unfortunately
The hideous agenda is prevalent in Western Europe.
Analog (film) photography is done. Its going to stay a rather eccentric hobby, as it is today. Its got way too many strikes against it, and the arguments for it are total sentiment.
I shot znd developed/printed film from the 1960’s to @2017, the last decade or so strictly out of sentiment, as I wanted to use my collection of 4x5 Speed Graphics and etc. other cool cameras. But the results are easily replicated on any decent DSLR or mirrorless, of which I now have a fair collection. Photoshop beats darkroom work in every possible way, and I have been there with Rodinal and Dektol and red lights. Latterly I was just scanning film and editing scanned images with ... Photoshop.
This little Pentax camera seems nice and cute, but geez, I have nicer ones sitting on my shelf if I want to make a “statement” with a half-frame camera. I have my 1960’s Olympus Pen (I currently have “only” 50 cameras in my collection), all heavy chrome brass, with wonderful lenses. Btw half frame film is dumb, from an image point of view, if the point is competing with digital. I suppose it might seem logical given the cost of film these days, but no, it isn’t.
If you want a film camera, get a 1960’s Pentax Spotmatic or similar for $20. They go for next to nothing, last forever, are easy to fix - stuck shutter syndrome is the typical fault, unscrew the bottom plate, squirt lighter fluid, and she’s good to go another decade. Lenses are cheap - Super Takumar 55/1.8 is up there with modern digital glass and using them is soothing to the soul. Use a lightmeter app on your phone. I use myLightmeter Pro. There are so many functional film cameras out there I really don’t see why anyone has to buy a new one.
Communism has what? to do with fine photography? The commies were great photographers. I have had a fine collection of East German Exaktas since the 1970’s. Eccentric design but for a long time they were THE SLR until the Japanese nuked them with higher tech. Their lenses are still considered superb to this day.
Most of the classic French photographers, like Cartier-Bresson, were commies, or fellow-travellers. https://www.magnumphotos.com/photographer/henri-cartier-bresson/
Exakta cameras were brought to be long before the DDR came into existence. Soviet socialism can take zero credit.
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