Off-topic: Not sure if you have already posted about the literal meltdown of the Robert E. Lee statue. I have zero love for the Confederacy or Jim Crow, but like Louise Perry, "One of the things I find sinister about statue iconoclasm is that destroying humanoid figures seems to be such an obvious emotional proxy for public executions."
My problem (obviously personally) is that I've lost respect for so much of the art world that reversing that would require very dramatic conversion--and frankly, I rather doubt the perps have it in them.
Franklin, flagrant, established, self-satisfied and opportunistic hypocrisy only deserves forgiveness if its practitioners actually repent and turn away from that. Have they? Will they?
It looks like there are cases of people who went along with something without thinking through it properly and recanted when it burned them. I'm in favor of forgiving them, not the Monoculture's true believers.
Well, yes, there are always mindless or weak-minded fashion followers who may not be truly perverse, but the perverse are pretty much incorrigible, and I'm afraid quite abundant.
Off-topic: Not sure if you have already posted about the literal meltdown of the Robert E. Lee statue. I have zero love for the Confederacy or Jim Crow, but like Louise Perry, "One of the things I find sinister about statue iconoclasm is that destroying humanoid figures seems to be such an obvious emotional proxy for public executions."
https://twitter.com/Louise_m_perry/status/1717790021715956155
https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2021/08/robert-e-lee-and-me
I touched on the subject back in 2020. http://www.artblog.net/post/2020/06/honor/
Precise and insightful. "a lot of us hear “inclusive” and think “fascist.”
Love this whole line of thinking. Sharing.
My problem (obviously personally) is that I've lost respect for so much of the art world that reversing that would require very dramatic conversion--and frankly, I rather doubt the perps have it in them.
Franklin, flagrant, established, self-satisfied and opportunistic hypocrisy only deserves forgiveness if its practitioners actually repent and turn away from that. Have they? Will they?
It looks like there are cases of people who went along with something without thinking through it properly and recanted when it burned them. I'm in favor of forgiving them, not the Monoculture's true believers.
Well, yes, there are always mindless or weak-minded fashion followers who may not be truly perverse, but the perverse are pretty much incorrigible, and I'm afraid quite abundant.