#1 BGLass | 2011-10-05 08:47
when the internet was allowed to happen, it was just assumed it provided "another vehicle," and that no new or suppressed voices could emerge. all the previous silence was taken to mean irreversible subjugation, the complete triumph of trotsky, the triumph of generational re-education, thought reform, and "reconstruction" (political re-education and occupation) of human personality to such an extent that no other reality could even be entertained, except the most 'approved' and narrow.
lo and behold, how despite so many "national" arts codifiers, dispensement of grants for arts productions, the advent of many college "Programs" to ensure people understand exactly what to produce as "arts" (the "m.f.a." style regimens and "grants" for "arts"), people still create things "outside the box" of rhetoric of defamation, degradation, oppression, class mentality, the elevation of the "urban" as the highest value of the world, the city as the zenith, etc.---
in fact, the 'urban' ideal looks a bit silly now--- just wanna be thug looking people wearing black leather, driving too fast down country roads which feel alien to them, giving people the finger and talking too loud, and singing along to vapid city pop songs, without realizing no one else is even on the road with them b/c they are in the country, lol.
Much past arts production seems another clueless outsiders take on things, like in that movie Fargo--- a well-crafted, expensive movie, yes, but with no insider's understanding, i.e. insight--- just an extended "arts" program joke about how stupid people are in the boon docks, (the emotion engendered, not catharsis, but feeling smarter than one's fellows as the viewer leaves the theatre.)
Arts in this climate, create the emotion of feeling superior to others. It's rare a "drama" can even produce various well-defined points of view with any depth at all (which previously was the whole purpose of drama). For we are all the same.
A bunch of blind people touching the elephant can't write a "russian novel," which would require depth thinking, (not to mention an audience who could read without mentally shutting down in confusion). The "right" loves the "small business owner." But they just live on markup. Buy low, sell high, like any market speculator. Why tout them?
Loss of the Innovative LIFESTYLE, (where people live creatively), seems such a tragedy.
nevertheless, the main socializations seem Agrarian (related to the west and south, the colonists)--growth from scratch, genuine self-sustaining, sufficiency, jack of all trades, many interests. Then is Manufacturing mindset (from the remnants of the Industrial revolution, now dispossessed---'time is money,' yeilds, productivity, competition, smith-joneses, subdivisions, being 'on the line,' teamwork, focus on one job),
--and now is the PC Religion, (slaves, race baiting, superiority, dependency, service mentality, service economy, takers, usery, "redistribution" of what was there, no 'making').
In this scheme, wealth is always elsewhere and must be "found" and "gotten"--- (this new "american" man) is an 'intelligence' that must be "imported," (from elsewhere) and 'brought in."
In the Agrarian and Manufacturing the 'human subjects,' the people, are involved in creating, (even if it plays out in different ways). In the 3rd, ("the new service economy") there is no creativity, not really.
These seem the 3 main strains.
No one asks: 'what does it MEAN for me to be named "a consumer" by self-described "elites?" Am I really just an Eater? Is it good to be positioned as an Eater by others?
No one says, "What does this rhetoric (this way of being) have to do with the advent of the externalization of this metaphor (in real-life---the appearance of the "aneorexia" or "bulimia," LOL--- this silent protest of either Eaters or Starvers or Pukers.
No one will look at such an obvious connection!
wow, got off on a rant track.