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Originally Posted by roachboy
i wish i had not posted last night after a session of drinking.
because the basic point in the post could have been said otherwise.
basically, conservatives really should learn to react less to some kinds of artistic provocation. they function often as a kind of inverted legitimation of the work they react to.
personally, i kind of enjoy how thin-skinned many conservatives are for precisely that reason.
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Okay, here's a scenario. Note that it's not a personal attack, but a hypothetical:
Let's say a family member of yours died in a car wreck. Let's further say that the cause of the wreck was alcohol-related. Doesn't have to be your relative who was drinking.
Would you be okay with a picture of your bloody relative, lying in the road, being posted widely as an admonishment not to drink and drive? After all, manx says it's okay. To quote him, "Art does not need to make you feel good. Art simply exists to make you feel.
And based on the passion of your response to this art, it seems it has been very successful."
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Originally Posted by roachboy
i do think that you are going to see alot of work being generated that is explicitly political and explicitly oppositional in the coming months/years.
everyone i have talked to who is involved with making things seems to be coming to something like the same position--[[obviously there is no zeitgeist claim in this, much as i might like to make one---i am not really speaking about a "spirit of the age", about artists in general--only those i talked to over the 24 hours as an index of what i think is a wider response]]---people are shocked by this election--they feel powerless in the face of it---but they are already thinking that they should focus on their work and try to push it in a more political direction--because they understand continuing to work as in itself a gesture of defiance in the face of this.
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Except for the 51% who voted for Bush.