BDK wrote:Somehow, freedom lost the artistic crowd - which is bizarre, as I've never met a group more inherently libertarian...
Artist types for the most part could give a rat's rear end beyond whatever either let's them do their thing (act, write, paint, whatever) or gets them rich/famous if that is their goal. If there was a large number of cannibal zoroastrians funding art, then you would be amazed at the huge quantities of pro cannibal zoroastrian artists that would suddenly appear.
I've only known a few artists, but mainly they seem concerned with doing whatever the hell *they* want. As opposed to showing any interest in larger concepts like freedom or liberty.
They're more anarchistic libertines.
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I've worked with and among artists for going on half my professional career, which was anything but what I set out to do.
They run the political gamut, and the best ones invariably want to tell a story, and well.
The best storytellers are not found at any one point along the political spectrum, nor ever have been.
Assuming that one purpose of art is to challenge the cultural mainstream, there's never been a better time than now for conservative artists, because the culture is heading the exact other way.
Which double-damns the hacks who've brought us the Atlas Shrugged tripe, because they had the perfect chance to do so much more.
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Ace of Spades wrote:
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/335098.php November 20, 2012
Why I Post Non-Political Stuff (And Why The Right Should Engage the Culture In Non-Explicitly Political Ways)
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One of the problems with the right's attempts at media is that it is always -- or almost always -- expliclity political, and ergo argumentative (argumentative in the "good" meaning, but also often in the bad one). We're always trying to persuade in conservative media. Thus, conversion can only happen when people tune into us when they're in the mood to be persuaded that everything they used to think is wrong, and these other people have been right all along.
You know how all often people tune in to discover how wrong they've been about everything? Rounding off to the nearest integer, zero. Zero percent of the people tune in zero percent of the time to be told how very wrong they are about everything.
Taking it to three significant digits like Nate Silver, The Model projects that zero point zero zero percent of the populace searches for websites and magazines to tell them they are 100% wrong about everything zero point zero zero percent of the time.
The left doesn't do it like this. The left infiltrates non-political media and stuffs them full of political assumptions.
We say on the right we have better arguments. We do. Guess what? It doesn't matter. Because an assumption -- something you've grown to believe without even realize you've been programmed, by dint of repetition, to believe -- will beat an argument every time.
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What seems to be a major problem, for people who place a high value on rationality, is that it feels like a cheap underhanded trick to deliberately avoid confronting the conscious mind. Pure brute-force Reason should be enough to change any human mind, so the thinking goes, so Stand Back and Prepare for Monologue!
Except people have every right to tune you out.
'Regulate' used to mean the opposite of 'constipate.'
I finally was able to get down to the theater in Plano to see the movie, and it was disappointing as expected.
The two biggest flaws were:
1. Too much meaningless scenery (and orchestral music) trying to demonstrate grandness of scale, and not enough dialog.
2. The person that decided to have the *random* voice-overs to try and describe the events occurring as the world starts to fail needs to be drug out of their writing chair, strung up with film, and beat with hardcover printings of Atlas Shrugged. The voice-overs break one of the primary rules of cinema; the audience has agreed to suspend everything to watch your movie, don't remind them they're in a movie except at the very beginning or end. Now, voice-overs can work, if done right. American Beauty comes to mind. This movie was how NOT to do it.
It's difficult to fit such an extensive book into a movie, but Peter Jackson demonstrated it can be done epically. This however, was a failure to capture the vision. Horrible editing, mostly mediocre and boring camera angles, and glossing over of plot make it a fail.
In the book, when they rescue Galt, they go in guns blazing. I was looking forward to this scene, and was sorely disappointed.
The best part of the movie was the beautiful, polished aluminum Beech 18 that Galt flew.
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