Controversial Political Opinions

[David Horn]

(04-17-2022, 11:32 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: The earlier aristocratic and religious societies hired and supported artists. I suppose the rulers thought that art would be good propaganda and glorify them. But we today have benefited from what the artists and musicians of the past created.

It was good that we vested more rulership in the common people. But a society is most-of-all revered for the art it has produced. Our society today produces almost nothing of value. If rulership is to be vested in the people, that means that the people must invest in the arts. We need to value and elevate our tastes. That means peoples' governments helping in this education and support, not just the market. Leaving everything to the market to determine has been an abject and total failure. It is a ideology that urgently needs to be junked and debunked.

I agree in an off handed sort of way.  No, we don't produce a lot of material that will outlive its producers.  We're in a period of throwing-off the old to make way for the new.  Of course, not all the old needs to go and most of the new is schlock.  It goes with the territory, I'm afraid.  There is little doubt that we need a major renewal; it's equally obvious that we don't have a clue how.  Meanwhile, the forces of reaction know exactly what to do, how to do it and when.  In this fable, we're the grasshoppers; they are the ants.  The upside: the arts may be the needed segue to a new paradigm.  They were for the Flower Children, so there is hope.