Art
Nostalgia is a socially malignant force
Giving shelter to the [art] you love by keeping a physical object in your home is sacred.
- Madeon
"If no art makes you feel anything, make your own art and feel something"
- Jenna Marbles (I think)
this is a symptom of a larger unwillingness to experience art without first being certain that you’ll like it. you see it in trope tags, movie trailers that spoil the whole movie, microgenres, algorithmic playlists, you get exactly what you want every time without ever exploring.
It’s ok to just not like something without fabricating a moral reason to fulfill your self-righteousness
The battle to reclaim every garbage film someone loves just because they saw it as a child is a sad never-ending one. Some stuff just isn’t good …and that is okay. Not every soulless piece of studio output designed to sell tacos and soundtrack CDs is some unrecognized genius.
Put the arts back in schools and never let them leave again. Because now I understand how STEM only schools have not led to Innovation or critical thinking skills. Disinformation is prospering as a result
“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of cont
... See moreif you already pay for a streaming service watching a new upload feels "free" so you're more likely to check out a movie that looks mid
X. It’s what’s happening
The reason why "diaspora poet" has become a denigrating term is not because people are afraid of the hard hitting truths about orientalism or art. It's because these poets, in their search for identity, end up approaching their heritage through an orientalised lens themselves.