420stalin69 [he/him]

Art for it’s own sake is pure idealism, anti-materialist, and bourgeoisie self-indulgence.

Art cannot exist for its own sake because all art exists in a historical context. The idea that art is or even can be some pure self-expression, some kind of raw creative exercise, is quite literally the height of idealism.

All art is in fact an act of communication rooted in shared experience, history, and biology. Denying this is engaging in bourgeoisie idealism. It’s a pretense that meaning exists or can exist in the abstract divorced from the material. It’s a pretense that the value of a thing exists or can exist in the thing rather than it’s function for a human or for humanity. This is why art “for its own sake” is idealism, because art cannot be for its own sake and engaging in the myth that it can be for its own sake is anti-material anti-scientific anti-dialectic idealism.

All art is an act of communication and denying the communicative function of a specific work of art is denying that something is being communicated. A denial of responsibility for the communication. Recognizing that all art has a communicative function places a burden upon the artist to be conscious of what they are communicating.

Edit: I get jokes without writing walls of text :squidward-nervous:

So there’s a movement called “land back” which is about restoring ownership of native lands to the indigenous populations, especially ownership of valuable resources such as mining rights.

There is no violent resistance so that is a meaningless hypothetical but there is a movement to restore economic autonomy in the form of land ownership and reparations and I think yes you should support something like that - which is the actually existing equivalent for Americans/Canadians/Australians etc.

Welp genocide it is then I guess

Im away for three goddamn days

They’ll just kill some babies

This isn’t the time to discuss gun control just after this tragedy energy.

So the debate starts becoming “where are the dead baby pics” and the left and progressives start saying “Blinken lied about dead babies” and the media starts a debate about “is it wrong to accuse Hamas of killing dead babies?”

Meanwhile all the average Joe hears is “Hamas” and “dead babies” on repeat for a few days and the sheer repetition of “Hamas dead babies” means that’s the part they’re going to remember and in a week or two when their memories start to fade they don’t even remember that the debate was about how there was no evidence, all they remember is “Hamas dead babies” or perhaps they even vaguely remember seeing a picture of dead babies.

Meanwhile Israel just carpet bombed a refugee camp. Presumably with smart bombs that carefully avoid the babies.

Those fingers are so janked. That doctor took a hammer to their own hand before handling those human remains.

Anyone taking that image seriously simply wants it to be true.

We don’t prohibit anyone from the right to protest

We will put your name on a fucking list that says “probably a terrorist” though so maybe think twice about going before I tell your employer that you’re an antisemite for opposing the carpet bombing of refugee camps in gaza