I wonder why no one is making good art anymore? 🤔
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This isn't it. I have a boring life by comparison but I could create good art. The internet used to have great "art" before it all became censored.
A sterile culture that censors excellence leads to boring art. You cannot conform to this culture and produce quality art. If you do not conform to this culture you will never be given any opportunities to display your art and you will be censored if you do by the institutions of power in this culture.
u/HallucinatoryBeing
CaptainTrouble is right here.
The guy who created Conan the Barbarian, Solomon Kane, he created both of those in his 20s, living in a small po-dunk town in Texas. he had commited suicide at like the age of 32.
He created those by being well read and creative, not by leading an extraordinary life.
It can help, having an interesting life, but it's more about what CaptainTrouble says. Your output is severely impacted by your input. If the input you start with is ugliness, wokeness and the opposite of freedom, there's zero chance of you producing art that is good.
People could live a boring life and create good art if their minds aren't poisoned.
Just skimming over his life, Robert E. Howard was the son of a traveling doctor and seen some shit from the oil booms of the time: lynchings, gunfights, Indian attacks, etc. Between that and getting bullied in school, he took up boxing and a "might makes right" attitude in life. Hardly a boring existence.
A soft city boy who spent his entire life in a comfy chair could've never written something as Darwinistic as Conan the Barbarian.
It's the same point. HallucinatorBeing is right but that the examples made it seem like it has to be something out of the ordinary.
But it doesn't need to be something exotic. The problem is that rather than having even the day-to-day life experience of someone in a po-dunk town in Texas, they are consuming media. Which goes well with what CaptainTrouble said. Garbage in, garbage out.
In the past, the input was a blend of real-world experience and other artistic influences. Now the only input outside of overproduced slop that they're getting is the most minimal of life experiences. Which is why the only thing they write is petty arguments, relationship drama, and pop-culture references.
Fuck off, I'm sick and tired of this idolization of "freedom", freedom is one of the core sicknesses of the west and it was created and forced on us by jews in hollywood, look at how sex and romance are treated, "free" and it destroys nations, leads to good men being treated as evil, and allows for legalized child sex without commitment as long as both participants are minors. It's disgusting and I would gladly kill to fight the evil false god of "freedom"
Freedom means free from the government controlling your life. Free to feel the consequences of your actions. Free doesn't mean the ability to be immoral.
The government needs to control people's lives in order to ensure morality and create consequences for the wrong actions, we no longer have that, instead we have "free love" which really just means "no love" for men like me.
There's a significant difference between freedom and licence. As the founding fathers knew well, freedom is only worth something to a moral people (and a moral people are the only ones deserving of freedom).
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Your head
He's a troll.
Freedom means freedom from responsibility to a lot of people.
Not just freedom from responsibility: freedom from consequences.
This comes down to a difference in definition of freedom, based on what you hear, vs what I'm saying. It's a common problem across all people. When people don't know the definition someone's using, we'll hear the definition we think of and react, when that wasn't the definition that they meant.
In the Bible, those who sin are slaves to sin.
Those who "do whatever they want that's right in their own eyes" are the most enslaved people.
Contrastingly, those who the Son sets free is free indeed! and the ones who are freed by Christ also imitate Christ and do not do the deeds of darkness. It doesn't mean Christians don't sin, we struggle and sin often. It means, we no longer have a mind that is beholden to darkness and nothing else, we're freed from the slavery of only obeying our flesh. We are now free to have a mind that puts Christ, puts God in the proper place of worship in our minds and heart, we're free to choose to hold our thoughts captive to Christ...You become a slave to Christ, but everyone's a slave, either to their flesh (which is ultimately a slave to Satan) or a slave to Christ. Only in Christ is that slavery a positive thing and is more like freedom.
That's true freedom.
Now even among atheists, when the society was more Christian minded, it helped their mind even if they weren't aware of it. There's a reason why even atheists could write good art in the 20th century....because their mind was being influenced by Christian thought subconsciously in ways they weren' even aware of it, even if they were anti-Christian themselves.
So when I say a "free mind" , I'm not talking about the libertarian "everything consensual is permitable dude...." freedom.
I'm talking about a mind that isn't subject to being given over to the Romans 1 depravity that minds get given over to, that in modern day West, we are seeing in huge swaths of the West.
Having a mind that isn't utterly given over to depraved mind is the ultimate freedom in terms of having a mind and being able to create art that is worthwhile.
With a mind that is given over, the best you can produce is ugliness, tearing down what's beautiful....etc.
It's why there are so many stupefyingly unfunny female "comedians"