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Is consumerism at all...artistic?
What do you think?
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All this traffic and activity in the modern social matrix involving consumerism, photo-sharing, and toys (e.g., TrumpUSA Christmastime) makes you wonder if we as a nation have become obsessed with commercial vanities (e.g., eTrade). Are we juvenile in our celebration of toys and trends? Does this sort of 'lax morality' motivate anti-social psychopaths to commit 'heretical' crimes which we then re-present in movies like The Craigslist Killer?
Of course, no one denies that Facebook promoted democratic social exchanges. Countless Americans and people around the world post personal profile-photos/pictures on Facebook which they use to create sharing-platforms on a public electronic bulletin-board. This is the online version of a 'society-rendition' of a school yearbook(!). Yes, Facebook has become synonymous with democracy and commerce/traffic in the 21st Century! Is this art or vanity?
There's a rich tradition in re-presenting profiles and personage-visage portraits in public forums. Indeed, the New Yorker magazine and various old American news/journal and local gazettes featured caricatures of townsfolk and social leaders/icons as representatives/diplomats of a socialization-consciousness, the early seeds of the modern 'network.' Soon, these journals/gazette aesthetics were replaced by cartoons and shows like Peanuts (Charles Schulz) and The Drew Carey Show. Well, these days, you might people posting themselves in outrageous costumes and hair-dos for Halloween for fanzine/fan-fiction arenas to celebrate modernism-symbolic carnivale films such as The Purge: Anarchy. Has our civilization become more...ornamental?
These kinds of society-evolution 'sentiments' are reflected in the capitalism-paranoia themed entertainment series Garbage Pail Kids, which offer outlandish/garish images of bizarre kids in bizarre poses representing an anti-social defiance of normal civilization network labyrinths. One character is Bloggy Bobby, for example, who obviously symbolizes our strange psychosis and paranoia about over-use of Internet-conveniences and consumerism-vanities like eTrade. Such 'art' is a representation of neo-Orwellian 'folklore' which may even motivate strange kinds of crimes, a notion presented by Oliver Stone in Natural Born Killers.
If all of this neo-Orwellian paranoia is somehow 'real,' then there may be real potential in creating forms of 'art therapy' to address this new kind of networking-paranoia oriented rebelliousness. We don't have to indulge in extremism-oriented films like Dark City but rather be satisfied with pseudo-nihilistic films like Fight Club. Right? If art is to be therapy in this age of commerce, then we have to think of corruption in terms of light-hearted comedy(!).
Maybe there are already rich customs/trends and even aesthetics in art already that echo these ideas. Monty Python may be one such 'dominion.' Obviously, Garbage Pail Kids comprise another. Friday the 13th: The Series may be yet another! At some point, graphic imagery became 'psychiatric.' Was that thanks to Hitchcock or someone earlier?
If our Facebook-society is to provide 'art therapy' for our anti-social sentiments regarding claustrophobia towards all this 'TrumpUSA commercial traffic/vanity,' then we have to understand why/how modernism-symbolic films like Two for the Money and The Wolf of Wall Street typify our new age 'gambling' consciousness! That's the best way to translate magazine-imagination into 'photography-art.'
Finally, when we've put all the pieces of this giant sociological puzzle together, we might at arrive at intriguing/insightful conclusions into the nature of American interests in crime-aesthetics films like Bloody Mama and The Lawnmower Man. Isn't this all scrapbook-metaphysics anyway? Hail to TrumpUSA, right?
TRUMP: Have you seen David Fincher's The Social Network?
CARTER: It's an intriguing portrait of Facebook-culture, Mr. President!
TRUMP: My wife is a fan of Facebook; who isn't, right?
CARTER: Everyone loves Facebook...everyone.
TRUMP: Globalization is certainly facilitated by 'toys.'
CARTER: Maybe we need art to feel liberated from art!
TRUMP: Yeah, toys that resemble toys (e.g., fake/toy iPhones!).
CARTER: Hail to consumerism..
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What do you think?
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All this traffic and activity in the modern social matrix involving consumerism, photo-sharing, and toys (e.g., TrumpUSA Christmastime) makes you wonder if we as a nation have become obsessed with commercial vanities (e.g., eTrade). Are we juvenile in our celebration of toys and trends? Does this sort of 'lax morality' motivate anti-social psychopaths to commit 'heretical' crimes which we then re-present in movies like The Craigslist Killer?
Of course, no one denies that Facebook promoted democratic social exchanges. Countless Americans and people around the world post personal profile-photos/pictures on Facebook which they use to create sharing-platforms on a public electronic bulletin-board. This is the online version of a 'society-rendition' of a school yearbook(!). Yes, Facebook has become synonymous with democracy and commerce/traffic in the 21st Century! Is this art or vanity?
There's a rich tradition in re-presenting profiles and personage-visage portraits in public forums. Indeed, the New Yorker magazine and various old American news/journal and local gazettes featured caricatures of townsfolk and social leaders/icons as representatives/diplomats of a socialization-consciousness, the early seeds of the modern 'network.' Soon, these journals/gazette aesthetics were replaced by cartoons and shows like Peanuts (Charles Schulz) and The Drew Carey Show. Well, these days, you might people posting themselves in outrageous costumes and hair-dos for Halloween for fanzine/fan-fiction arenas to celebrate modernism-symbolic carnivale films such as The Purge: Anarchy. Has our civilization become more...ornamental?
These kinds of society-evolution 'sentiments' are reflected in the capitalism-paranoia themed entertainment series Garbage Pail Kids, which offer outlandish/garish images of bizarre kids in bizarre poses representing an anti-social defiance of normal civilization network labyrinths. One character is Bloggy Bobby, for example, who obviously symbolizes our strange psychosis and paranoia about over-use of Internet-conveniences and consumerism-vanities like eTrade. Such 'art' is a representation of neo-Orwellian 'folklore' which may even motivate strange kinds of crimes, a notion presented by Oliver Stone in Natural Born Killers.
If all of this neo-Orwellian paranoia is somehow 'real,' then there may be real potential in creating forms of 'art therapy' to address this new kind of networking-paranoia oriented rebelliousness. We don't have to indulge in extremism-oriented films like Dark City but rather be satisfied with pseudo-nihilistic films like Fight Club. Right? If art is to be therapy in this age of commerce, then we have to think of corruption in terms of light-hearted comedy(!).
Maybe there are already rich customs/trends and even aesthetics in art already that echo these ideas. Monty Python may be one such 'dominion.' Obviously, Garbage Pail Kids comprise another. Friday the 13th: The Series may be yet another! At some point, graphic imagery became 'psychiatric.' Was that thanks to Hitchcock or someone earlier?
If our Facebook-society is to provide 'art therapy' for our anti-social sentiments regarding claustrophobia towards all this 'TrumpUSA commercial traffic/vanity,' then we have to understand why/how modernism-symbolic films like Two for the Money and The Wolf of Wall Street typify our new age 'gambling' consciousness! That's the best way to translate magazine-imagination into 'photography-art.'
Finally, when we've put all the pieces of this giant sociological puzzle together, we might at arrive at intriguing/insightful conclusions into the nature of American interests in crime-aesthetics films like Bloody Mama and The Lawnmower Man. Isn't this all scrapbook-metaphysics anyway? Hail to TrumpUSA, right?
TRUMP: Have you seen David Fincher's The Social Network?
CARTER: It's an intriguing portrait of Facebook-culture, Mr. President!
TRUMP: My wife is a fan of Facebook; who isn't, right?
CARTER: Everyone loves Facebook...everyone.
TRUMP: Globalization is certainly facilitated by 'toys.'
CARTER: Maybe we need art to feel liberated from art!
TRUMP: Yeah, toys that resemble toys (e.g., fake/toy iPhones!).
CARTER: Hail to consumerism..
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