Tag yourself as this list of “bad art” features, according to a twitter fascist
“Never Forget” until the new target is those that they disagree with.
Edit: please watch this video essay by Jacob Geller. It speaks on really important points as to how “bad art” is a weapon of fascism and how it reflects the Degenerate Art Exhibition(s)
It’s worth going a little into why this way of talking about art is fascist.
Fascists have a complicated relationship with freedom. On the one hand, they love to portray themselves as powerful, vigorous, tearing through opposition that seeks to hold them down and asserting themselves above all. On the other hand, they want to be told exactly what to do at all times. They want a cultural tradition enforced by violence that will guide every major decision of their lives down to their personal appearance and spiritual beliefs.
Are these contradictory? Yes, to some extent, though it’s worth remembering that fascists always imagine themselves as the ones in charge of the oppressive political violence, not, as they are much more likely to be, the ones subjected to it. With that in mind, they fit together a lot better.
Now, apply that to art. On the one hand, art has to make you feel powerful and free. On the other hand, it can’t actually come from a place of freedom. Artists can’t be allowed to experiment and disagree. The artistic world must all speak with one aesthetic and one message, so that fascists can be led by it. It has to be their GPS, and it has to be shackled to a simple rhythm so that they are never confused by what it’s telling them to do.
The ball here is only ever so slightly hidden, as this person pretends to be okay with any art being produced so long as we reach total agreement on what art is good. But that’s also impossible in an actual free world. People not only make different art but value art differently, and fascists can’t stand that. It scares and disgusts them, and they have to pretend that there is a universal instinct underneath that difference that’s been corrupted somehow. There isn’t.
Fascists like freedom as a catchphrase, but they hate it in practice, because freedom leads to variety and richness and exploration, and all of those things are against the fascist love of conformity, for movement in one single, lockstep forward motion. All of that leads them to this awful, sterile view of art, where art has to be always the same, always simple, and always flattering them for their fascism. If it was anything else, it would make them feel uncomfortable and they are too rigid and immature to feel uncomfortable.
Maintaining the biodiversity of sheep is not just important for knitters and spinners, but for the health of the environment. Essentially, a sheep functions like a carbon sequestration system. Atmospheric carbon makes up 50 percent of wool’s weight, and, unlike synthetic fabrics, wool is naturally biodegradable. When disposed of, wool acts like a fertilizer, slowly releasing valuable nutrients and carbon back into the soil. Wool fixed carbon in the topsoil rather than releasing it into the atmosphere. This process can help regenerate pastures, which sheep will graze. And sheep can help answer the problem of how to avoid far-flung fiber supply chains. Because sheep do well in such an extraordinary range of terrains, wool is a natural choice for people interested in rebuilding local systems of cloth manufacture. Certain breeds are more suited to certain atmospheric and geologic conditions than others, so preserving diversity also means preserving the geographic range in which sheep can flourish.
Sofi Thanhauser, Worn: A People’s History of Clothing
when e.e. cummings said “i’ll live my life if it kills me”
when andrea gibson said “i suppose i love this life, in spite of my clenched fist.” & when ellen bass said “to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it”
when james baldwin said, “this is why one must say yes to life and embrace it wherever it is found-and it is found in terrible places; nevertheless, there it is;”
when Mary Oliver said “it is a serious thing / just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world”
When Walt Whitman said, “Answer: That you are here—that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.”
beavers are one of those things you just accept without question as soon as adults tell you about it as a kid and then many years later in your adulthood you look up one day and go wait, what do you mean there exists a species of rodent hydrological engineer that knows how to build properly ventilated freestanding houses for itself, that doesn’t make any sense
And they were once the basis of the economy of the second largest country on earth
And they were believed to castrate themselves to escape hunters
And they produce castoreum in glands near their anus; this substance is used in perfume and (very rarely) as imitation vanilla
Believe in the Beaver
As a non-American I have always been just absolutely gobsmacked by the beaver. Like, I get why there is so much focus on the platypus being a weird experiment. But I feel that if people in North America weren’t so used to the beaver they would also ask if some Creator had also been experimenting with the beaver….and perhaps gotten quite a bit further than just quirky design aesthetics.
People really do absolutely underestimate how much of how we perceive the world is cultural. They will not be able to understand that in some places seeing someone’s naked legs is as scandalous as naked “female presenting” tits are to westerners (especially Americans), and that the same tits are to other people just a normal thing that is totally fine to show.
Embarassment, shame, jealousy and all those things are cultural. We all have the potential for them, but what and if we will have those emotions are totally dependent on culture.
the problem with buying food is after you eat it you have to go buy more food
just say you have an addiction
as a little baby you are happy with plain milk and just some sort of mono-coloured paste, but as you eat more and more that just doesn’t cut it any more. you need more flavours, more textures, more extreme foods. that’s how you can tell it’s not harmless, it’s frying your dopamine receptors. some sickos even eat foods that literally hurt to eat because they’re so eager to chase their fix.
ALT
