We are about 30 years out from "Piss Christ", the cult of transgression at this point is just repeating the same dead empty gestures that stopped being any kind of interesting by the turn of this century.
Culture for the past 40ish years has just been the same sterile preening while dancing on the grave of the o…
We are about 30 years out from "Piss Christ", the cult of transgression at this point is just repeating the same dead empty gestures that stopped being any kind of interesting by the turn of this century.
Culture for the past 40ish years has just been the same sterile preening while dancing on the grave of the old world, all while imagining some Platonic bigot or metaphysical Archie Bunker writhing in fury, whose corpse needs to be desecrated so the "marginalized" can feel "represented".
The Marxist-Narcissist "creatives" of the modern world are just like teens whose entire purpose and greatest thrill is making their parents angry, even if their parents are dead and/or bored.
"We'd soon see who would be holding their severed heads in their hands."
Yes, if these supposed transgressive radicals had any balls they would have done some fun mockery of the Prophet Muhammad, but they're not really anti-theists or any kind of apostles of liberation, they're just the spoiled infants of the decadent West.
True, but the "shocking" has become more mainstream, which speaks to both the imbecility of those who propagate it and the desensitization of the culture which passively accepts it.
Mass secular democracy seems to have turned out to mean "lowest common denominator" and now that the last god left standing is the Self and its needs, what passes for culture and artists are just endless variations on the same theme(s), being more or less: look at me and my fabulous genitals.
"Shocking the bourgeois" !!
We are about 30 years out from "Piss Christ", the cult of transgression at this point is just repeating the same dead empty gestures that stopped being any kind of interesting by the turn of this century.
Culture for the past 40ish years has just been the same sterile preening while dancing on the grave of the old world, all while imagining some Platonic bigot or metaphysical Archie Bunker writhing in fury, whose corpse needs to be desecrated so the "marginalized" can feel "represented".
The Marxist-Narcissist "creatives" of the modern world are just like teens whose entire purpose and greatest thrill is making their parents angry, even if their parents are dead and/or bored.
"We'd soon see who would be holding their severed heads in their hands."
Yes, if these supposed transgressive radicals had any balls they would have done some fun mockery of the Prophet Muhammad, but they're not really anti-theists or any kind of apostles of liberation, they're just the spoiled infants of the decadent West.
Perhaps the Charlie Hebdo thing sunk in?
that was some editorial oversight!
True, but the "shocking" has become more mainstream, which speaks to both the imbecility of those who propagate it and the desensitization of the culture which passively accepts it.
Mass secular democracy seems to have turned out to mean "lowest common denominator" and now that the last god left standing is the Self and its needs, what passes for culture and artists are just endless variations on the same theme(s), being more or less: look at me and my fabulous genitals.
61 Then bespake the Po-Mo artist,
62 "My last skulptyure was hailed as smartest
63 Bye sondry criticks at the Tate
64 Whom called it genius, brillyant, greate
65 A Jesus skulpted out of dunge
66 Earned four starres in the Guardian;
67 But now the same schtick withe Mo-ha-med
68 Has earned a bountye on my hed."
69 Sayed the Bishop, "that's quyte impressyve
70 To crafte a Jesus so transgressyve
71 But to do so with the Muslim Prophet
72 Doomed thy neck to lose whats off it.
73 Thou should have showen mor chivalrie
74 In committynge such a blasphemie."
- Iowahawk, February 2008
https://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2008/02/heere-bigynneth.html
I did think the "metaphysical Archie Bunker writhing in fury" was very good writing.
thanks!