Street Juice
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Today's artists are the weakest, wokest, lightweights in memory. The art world is a PC desert.
Behold Their Lofty Angst: Artists in the Trump EraâPart One - Taki's Magazine
Lo, lefty artists across the land are speaking truth to power. How noble of them to rail against the aims of working-class white people to improve their lives and to be sovereign over the fate of their own nation!
For instance, in the current issue of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldbergâs ever more woke magazine, there is an article by Lin-Manuel Miranda called âThe Role of the Artist in the Age of Trump.â Miranda is most known for creating and starring in the sublimely diverse and inclusive Hamilton, a 2015 hip-hop musical about the life of the Founding Father of that name. Miranda, we learn from his biographical note, is âa Pulitzer Prizeâ, Grammyâ, Emmyâ, and Tony Awardâwinning composer, lyricist, and actor.â No less impressive is Mirandaâs talent for criticism and cultural commentary. âConsider The Sound of Music,â he writes. âIt isnât just about climbing mountains and fording streams. Look beyond the adorable von Trapp children: Itâs about the looming existential threat of Nazism.â Then, by way of showing the musical dramaâs enduring significance, Miranda adds: âNo longer relevant? A GIF of Captain von Trapp tearing up a Nazi flag is something we see 10 times a day on Twitter, because all sorts of Nazis are out there again in 2019.â
For such sentences an editor cannot help feeling grateful, because one cannot ask for stronger support for a claim than a GIF frequently seen on Twitterâthat exemplar of high seriousness and elevated discourseâor a precise assertion such as âall sorts of Nazis are out there again in 2019.â
Also fine is Mirandaâs observation that âall art is political,â made three times in the articleâs opening, 80-word paragraph, in case youâre too thick to get the point the first time or two.
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Behold Their Lofty Angst: Artists in the Trump EraâPart One - Taki's Magazine
Lo, lefty artists across the land are speaking truth to power. How noble of them to rail against the aims of working-class white people to improve their lives and to be sovereign over the fate of their own nation!
For instance, in the current issue of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldbergâs ever more woke magazine, there is an article by Lin-Manuel Miranda called âThe Role of the Artist in the Age of Trump.â Miranda is most known for creating and starring in the sublimely diverse and inclusive Hamilton, a 2015 hip-hop musical about the life of the Founding Father of that name. Miranda, we learn from his biographical note, is âa Pulitzer Prizeâ, Grammyâ, Emmyâ, and Tony Awardâwinning composer, lyricist, and actor.â No less impressive is Mirandaâs talent for criticism and cultural commentary. âConsider The Sound of Music,â he writes. âIt isnât just about climbing mountains and fording streams. Look beyond the adorable von Trapp children: Itâs about the looming existential threat of Nazism.â Then, by way of showing the musical dramaâs enduring significance, Miranda adds: âNo longer relevant? A GIF of Captain von Trapp tearing up a Nazi flag is something we see 10 times a day on Twitter, because all sorts of Nazis are out there again in 2019.â
For such sentences an editor cannot help feeling grateful, because one cannot ask for stronger support for a claim than a GIF frequently seen on Twitterâthat exemplar of high seriousness and elevated discourseâor a precise assertion such as âall sorts of Nazis are out there again in 2019.â
Also fine is Mirandaâs observation that âall art is political,â made three times in the articleâs opening, 80-word paragraph, in case youâre too thick to get the point the first time or two.
Edited to comply with copyright guidelines. The OP may want to bone
up on the board rules regarding copy and pasting copyright material.
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