Nosmo King
Gold Member
I was listening to a radio documentary show (This American Life) recently. The topic was the Egyptian revolution and its aftermath.
There were a lot of concerns voiced in the show about the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood. There were taped excerpts from meetings where the Muslim Brotherhood and their agenda really was vis-a-vis the Egyptian situation.
One way the Egyptians were able to ferret out some information on the Muslim Brotherhood was to ask about their attitudes toward art. Simple, right? But that's where the truth came from. That simple question: what are your attitudes on art?
The highly Socially Conservative Muslim Brotherhood would be in simpatico with the Right Wingers in America. They too wanted to censor, prescribe and deem some art as correct and proper and other art as decadent.
So, I suppose all one needs to qualify as a poor critic of art is to not understand it at all and hold a Conservative political ideology.
There were a lot of concerns voiced in the show about the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood. There were taped excerpts from meetings where the Muslim Brotherhood and their agenda really was vis-a-vis the Egyptian situation.
One way the Egyptians were able to ferret out some information on the Muslim Brotherhood was to ask about their attitudes toward art. Simple, right? But that's where the truth came from. That simple question: what are your attitudes on art?
The highly Socially Conservative Muslim Brotherhood would be in simpatico with the Right Wingers in America. They too wanted to censor, prescribe and deem some art as correct and proper and other art as decadent.
So, I suppose all one needs to qualify as a poor critic of art is to not understand it at all and hold a Conservative political ideology.