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This is a free-speech analysis inspired by The Post.
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Art was the heartbeat of human consciousness, and various paintings across the epochs of human civilization reminded people of the general splendour of great/iconic leaders such as Queen Victoria and Fidel Castro who represented a creativity about social customs/etiquette. Art was therefore a way to bring people together and unite them spiritually (if not completely politically!). Art from the early days of the British Empire (of great English monarchs/queens) brought to mind a special human appreciation of aesthetic refinement and obedience to civics-promoting norms.
Art of the modern age was much more pedestrian, syncopated, and usually found in 'real-time' (as in Flash-enabled user-interface computer power-point slideshows/dioramas!). Art of the modern age could be re-presented as politics-podium grandstanding (e.g., ISIS or IRA terrorists taking costumed photos of themselves to distribute on the Internet). Art of the modern age was therefore much more 'experience-colloquial' and hence much more 'sensual.' The danger was that pornography would make art crude in this modern age of peer-reviewed 'customs.'
Art always survives, despite the reign of depots, madmen, druglords, barbarians, etc. The art of the people symbolizes a social focus on the emotional (and hence human!) experience with history/politics. American film-makers of recent times have experimented with making art reflective of a modern concern about urban claustrophobia and industrialization-related vices (e.g., eco-pollution). This cinematic art (much of it comics-based/adapted) represented a developed civilization fear about 'moral decay.'
Art is by the people and hence for the people! We might find a Sunday afternoon Bob Ross painting of a welcoming zesty jar of peanut-butter very 'representative' of human consciousness and sensuality! This is the challenge of the audience --- how to present their reviews of art without exerting their own personal tastes and biases. Interpretation of art involves personalization as well as formalization, so art must first and foremost be an expression of the human yearning for unlimited self-expression.
A group of 3rd grade students at a California elementary school are told by their teacher that the last two weeks of the school-year (before summer!) would involve the kids simply making self-customed paintings with watercolors. The students are eager and happy to participate in this light-hearted and imagination-stimulating school-activity before the summer vacation begins(!). The students start to think about the deep human value of being allowed to use paint/art to create expressions of liberty and happiness. These students are tomorrow's leaders who will be compelled to once again evaluate the political weight of free-speech politics (and propaganda!) in the democratic sphere. Isn't this the 'fun' of art?
Artists are not necessarily artisans/craftsmen, but both artists and artisans might enjoy collecting civilization trophies/tokens/toys such as authentic old-world Aztec coins gathered by archaeologists for a museum-collection in modern America. These civilization 'tokens' represent a creative optimism towards the 'progression' of social structures/governments and appeal to the artist/artisan because they symbolize human behaviour. An artist/artisan would not want to see such civilization tokens lost/censored in the windmills/whirlwind of political hysteria (e.g., McCarthyism).
As Irish-Catholic and British-Protestant students at Penn State University prepare for their upcoming exciting NCAAF (men's college football) season, cheering on their school's prestigious/celebrated Nittany Lions team as they seek glories, they might wonder how all this shared campus festivity 'quiets' the general turbulence of unresolved politics in Ireland and the UK (between the IRA and British Parliament!). These Irish-Catholic and British-Protestant students at Penn State cheering on the Nittany Lions together obviously symbolize all the modern pluralism optimism required to bring media-engaged civics in 'TrumpUSA.' However, many anti-TrumpUSA protesters do not feel as optimistic...
Alien: Covenant is a new sci-fi horror film by Ridley Scott which presents the eerie story of a group of human space explorers preparing to colonize a new planet (in a distant future) but being diverted by solar-flares and feeling compelled to explore a nearby seemingly-organic planet on which they discover a terrifying 'species' of dragon-like creatures known as 'Xenomorphs' which require them to re-evaluate their overall sense of courage. Alien: Covenant captures all the trust-related evolutionary fears of the modern era, so how do we coordinate such 'muscular' fears (e.g., colonization terror) with free-speech podiums (e.g., IRA-UK censorship) for modern-media 'metrics' TV networks such as CNN (American news), EWTN (Catholic-TV), and Al Jazeera (Muslim-TV/news)? After all, censorship threatens our basic sense of anthropology. If the Internet-hacker is the new age terrorist, then the news anchorman/journalist is the evolved court-jester! So what does President Trump make of all this?
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Signing off,
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Art was the heartbeat of human consciousness, and various paintings across the epochs of human civilization reminded people of the general splendour of great/iconic leaders such as Queen Victoria and Fidel Castro who represented a creativity about social customs/etiquette. Art was therefore a way to bring people together and unite them spiritually (if not completely politically!). Art from the early days of the British Empire (of great English monarchs/queens) brought to mind a special human appreciation of aesthetic refinement and obedience to civics-promoting norms.
Art of the modern age was much more pedestrian, syncopated, and usually found in 'real-time' (as in Flash-enabled user-interface computer power-point slideshows/dioramas!). Art of the modern age could be re-presented as politics-podium grandstanding (e.g., ISIS or IRA terrorists taking costumed photos of themselves to distribute on the Internet). Art of the modern age was therefore much more 'experience-colloquial' and hence much more 'sensual.' The danger was that pornography would make art crude in this modern age of peer-reviewed 'customs.'
Art always survives, despite the reign of depots, madmen, druglords, barbarians, etc. The art of the people symbolizes a social focus on the emotional (and hence human!) experience with history/politics. American film-makers of recent times have experimented with making art reflective of a modern concern about urban claustrophobia and industrialization-related vices (e.g., eco-pollution). This cinematic art (much of it comics-based/adapted) represented a developed civilization fear about 'moral decay.'
Art is by the people and hence for the people! We might find a Sunday afternoon Bob Ross painting of a welcoming zesty jar of peanut-butter very 'representative' of human consciousness and sensuality! This is the challenge of the audience --- how to present their reviews of art without exerting their own personal tastes and biases. Interpretation of art involves personalization as well as formalization, so art must first and foremost be an expression of the human yearning for unlimited self-expression.
A group of 3rd grade students at a California elementary school are told by their teacher that the last two weeks of the school-year (before summer!) would involve the kids simply making self-customed paintings with watercolors. The students are eager and happy to participate in this light-hearted and imagination-stimulating school-activity before the summer vacation begins(!). The students start to think about the deep human value of being allowed to use paint/art to create expressions of liberty and happiness. These students are tomorrow's leaders who will be compelled to once again evaluate the political weight of free-speech politics (and propaganda!) in the democratic sphere. Isn't this the 'fun' of art?
Artists are not necessarily artisans/craftsmen, but both artists and artisans might enjoy collecting civilization trophies/tokens/toys such as authentic old-world Aztec coins gathered by archaeologists for a museum-collection in modern America. These civilization 'tokens' represent a creative optimism towards the 'progression' of social structures/governments and appeal to the artist/artisan because they symbolize human behaviour. An artist/artisan would not want to see such civilization tokens lost/censored in the windmills/whirlwind of political hysteria (e.g., McCarthyism).
As Irish-Catholic and British-Protestant students at Penn State University prepare for their upcoming exciting NCAAF (men's college football) season, cheering on their school's prestigious/celebrated Nittany Lions team as they seek glories, they might wonder how all this shared campus festivity 'quiets' the general turbulence of unresolved politics in Ireland and the UK (between the IRA and British Parliament!). These Irish-Catholic and British-Protestant students at Penn State cheering on the Nittany Lions together obviously symbolize all the modern pluralism optimism required to bring media-engaged civics in 'TrumpUSA.' However, many anti-TrumpUSA protesters do not feel as optimistic...
Alien: Covenant is a new sci-fi horror film by Ridley Scott which presents the eerie story of a group of human space explorers preparing to colonize a new planet (in a distant future) but being diverted by solar-flares and feeling compelled to explore a nearby seemingly-organic planet on which they discover a terrifying 'species' of dragon-like creatures known as 'Xenomorphs' which require them to re-evaluate their overall sense of courage. Alien: Covenant captures all the trust-related evolutionary fears of the modern era, so how do we coordinate such 'muscular' fears (e.g., colonization terror) with free-speech podiums (e.g., IRA-UK censorship) for modern-media 'metrics' TV networks such as CNN (American news), EWTN (Catholic-TV), and Al Jazeera (Muslim-TV/news)? After all, censorship threatens our basic sense of anthropology. If the Internet-hacker is the new age terrorist, then the news anchorman/journalist is the evolved court-jester! So what does President Trump make of all this?
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