Re: Escaping 1997

On 5/8/24 8:15 AM, Ben Collver wrote:

On 2024-05-08, Stefan Ram <ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:

Ben Collver <bencollver@tilde.pink> wrote or quoted:

Escaping 1997

>
  Let me try to boil this down into a couple of easy-to-digest
  sentences:
>
  In '97, neoliberalism took over the cultural sphere and turned
  art into a financial play to prop up the status quo. Art needs
  to get back to being a catalyst for emancipatory social change.

 Nice synopsis.
 I liked the quote: "... 30-odd years of cultural and artistic
impotence characterised by irrelevant remakes, cinematic universes,
band reunion tours, and endless nostalgia industry ..."
 I've read other theories about the lack of creativity in music and
movie industries, correlating it to economic contraction.  I think
it probably has multiple factors, so it's interesting to see other
takes on the situation.

Art is frosting.
It used to be difficult to produce and consequently was quite admirable -- at least the stuff that lasted long enough for us to experience it. Now it's easy and takes no talent or skill whatsoever.  It's not even good frosting.
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Cheers, Bev
   "As a mortician I always tie the shoelaces of the dead together.
    If there actually is a zombie apocalypse it will be hilarious."