There should be more social support for art to more than just barely exist in our society because it is equally as important as teaching our kids math and science for our futures. It’s a changing society, that’s obvious, and we need social warriors on all fronts; creativity, technology, science, medicine, etc. With marketing and advertising becoming creepishly exact, we need the artists, writers, and musicians who are not afraid to take chances and make choices in their art so that it is true to their expression without the fear that they are breaking away from the newest money-making trend. The greatest irony here is that true “rebels” receive the most passionate welcome, as if they are a deep breathe of air and we have all been holding our breaths. Some “stars” that find success are genuinely not creative people, but are masked by genius advertisers who are aware of the romantic allure being an “artist” has, so we accept them and allow them to define today’s creative industries. But, some are dormant seeds of brilliance equally masked and manipulated by the same marketing strategies, only to end up planted with the other “genetically identical crops” because they just didn’t know better. We lose their potential contributions, and they lose themselves in the scheme of it all. We critically need the artists who fight against the deeply invasive influences of having the cookie-cutter society blasted in our faces every day so they can spiritually feed us when we start starving again. Experiencing genuine expression is therapeutic, inspiring, and rejuvenating. Boys and girls who grow up depressed and thinking they are nothing because they’re not like Beyonce, or Jay Z, or The Hills may find themselves and find peace if they were only able to be exposed to more artists that were allowed to portray themselves as actual humans and not gods. The media knows this, which is why they spend incalculable amounts of money making popular artists, actors and writers put out the “best” versions of themselves and their “work” so that you obsessively watch and follow them. Were all guilty of being victims of this trick. If everyone continues to be beat down by this machine, we will not only become increasingly depressed, uninspired, and impotent as a society, but we will lose the basic meaning of what it is to be human. We’re not robots. We’re not supposed to be duplicates. We’re not supposed to be the same. Art cannot continue to be replaced by testing kids and audiences, and invading our privacy to calculate the best way to market to us. Get pissed, not likes.
Posted on: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 20:19:21 +0000
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