Well, here's exhibit A of the boomer mindset. I would agree that art can be panhandling up to the point you get paid enough to make it worth it. Then it's a widget just like anyone else builds.
The worth of good art is self-evident throughout history. The damage that malicious art can do is also thus.
Today art is typically left wing is because the modern pipeline and gatekeeping system trends left. When the system was traditional, you get Bach and Michelangelo. Why is the system left wing? Because of right wing decadence and laziness. The right wing took a libertarian "live and let live" position combined with an irreligious, shortsighted capitalist position and essentially abandoned the turrets of gatekeeping to goblins.
You're missing the implications of my putting sarcastic quote marks around "artist."
Because they aren't.
Actual art, actual culture, has value. It glorifies God and His works, it exemplifies truth, beauty and goodness.
Modern art, and modern artists, do no such thing. They're scribblers at best, shit flinging monkeys in a cathedral at worst.
And it's not a "boomer mindset" to deride that edifices of the left by the way. These people aren't going to somehow become valuable humans if we had just coddled them more. I refuse to assign value or worth to the valueless and worthless.
You didn't use scare quotes the first time you mentioned artists, so I took that as referring to all artists. If you were referring to deconstructist left wing saboteurs (essentially the majority of today's institutions), I don't disagree with everything else you wrote.
The seeds of the left's satanic ideas are hundreds of years old.
The boomer mindset is that of the remorseful leftoid. They sold the country up the river so they could glut themselves on credit and obvious lies about muh equal. They are lotus eaters, who were happy to embrace prog bullshit in their own time but then got uncomfortable with the obvious results.
As far as I'm concerned we don't need to go back a generation to make the country better. Try a couple centuries for starters.
I don't think you can pin all the blame on "decadence and laziness"
Central banking (+ fiat currency) changed the structure of society. Whoever prints the money holds the power.
Centralized mass media helped reinforce this power.
The "Right Wing" that exists today exists only because the Regime decided to create a fake controlled-opposition in the 1960s
Artists are typically leftoids because it's a no value added profession. Leftism is an ideology for the chronically worthless, the useless eaters.
Nothing and I do mean nothing exemplifies that better than an "artist." It's basically panhandling but less creative.
Well, here's exhibit A of the boomer mindset. I would agree that art can be panhandling up to the point you get paid enough to make it worth it. Then it's a widget just like anyone else builds.
The worth of good art is self-evident throughout history. The damage that malicious art can do is also thus.
Today art is typically left wing is because the modern pipeline and gatekeeping system trends left. When the system was traditional, you get Bach and Michelangelo. Why is the system left wing? Because of right wing decadence and laziness. The right wing took a libertarian "live and let live" position combined with an irreligious, shortsighted capitalist position and essentially abandoned the turrets of gatekeeping to goblins.
You're missing the implications of my putting sarcastic quote marks around "artist."
Because they aren't.
Actual art, actual culture, has value. It glorifies God and His works, it exemplifies truth, beauty and goodness.
Modern art, and modern artists, do no such thing. They're scribblers at best, shit flinging monkeys in a cathedral at worst.
And it's not a "boomer mindset" to deride that edifices of the left by the way. These people aren't going to somehow become valuable humans if we had just coddled them more. I refuse to assign value or worth to the valueless and worthless.
You didn't use scare quotes the first time you mentioned artists, so I took that as referring to all artists. If you were referring to deconstructist left wing saboteurs (essentially the majority of today's institutions), I don't disagree with everything else you wrote.
Not even today's institutions.
The seeds of the left's satanic ideas are hundreds of years old.
The boomer mindset is that of the remorseful leftoid. They sold the country up the river so they could glut themselves on credit and obvious lies about muh equal. They are lotus eaters, who were happy to embrace prog bullshit in their own time but then got uncomfortable with the obvious results.
As far as I'm concerned we don't need to go back a generation to make the country better. Try a couple centuries for starters.
I don't think you can pin all the blame on "decadence and laziness"
Central banking (+ fiat currency) changed the structure of society. Whoever prints the money holds the power. Centralized mass media helped reinforce this power.
The "Right Wing" that exists today exists only because the Regime decided to create a fake controlled-opposition in the 1960s