Europeans and self-loathing Jews once again try to grab a little antisemitic limelight
Bookworm on May 07 2009 at 8:55 am | Filed under: Uncategorized
I’ll comment just briefly on this story about a Belgian production of Saint-Saëns’s “Samson et Dalila,” which casts modern Jews as the Philistines, Palestinians as the Hebrews and Samson as a suicide bomber. My comment: this is the typical “artistic” crap that emantes from the Left (whether non-Jewish or self-loathing Jewish) in an effort to “shock” people into seeing some politicall correct “truth.” It’s not new, it’s not creative, it’s not artistic, it’s not meaningful. It’s shallow, stupid and has the potential to be very harmful.
But then again, I don’t like modern “art.”
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I’m betting this had full government funding, as well — which is a GIGANTIC reason to oppose tax money flowing to “the arts”.
Think of western culture’s great artistic forms—opera, symphonic music, film, literature etc.—as the body and think of “artists” like the people who produced this Belgian swill as teenage cutters, those pathetic kids who gouge themselves with knives just to see if they still can feel.
Deep down they know that they are Ayn Rand’s dreaded “second raters,” people whose only talent is disfiguring and distorting beauty and content that is beyond their ability to create.
If they were to be magically transported back in time to 400 A.D., they would find themselves dressed as Visigoth soldiers ransacking a Roman town, both humbled by the vastly superior culture that produced it and gloating at their power to destroy it—and the helplessness of its makers to defend it.
I heard about this…heard that it’s so brutal that a significant percentage of the actors refused to come to practices. Don’t know if that meant that they still went to the performance – it seemed like an odd statement (“refused to attend practices”). Didn’t they read the script before they took the parts? why didn’t they just flat quit? I don’t know – don’t even know where this was supposed to have happened…I just thought it was a very odd news report.
Charles #2
Think of western culture’s great artistic forms—opera, symphonic music, film, literature etc.—as the body and think of “artists” like the people who produced this Belgian swill as teenage cutters, those pathetic kids who gouge themselves with knives just to see if they still can feel.
Charles, you left off your list, of great artistic forms, free-form paint-flinging.
When I am in the mood to create great Western art, I put my 8 ft by 8 ft blank canvas up against the wall, open my six cans of paint, put a brush into each. Then I engage in about ten minutes of primal scream therapy. Having worked myself into a (primal) frenzy, I then allow my subconscious to direct my brilliance as I grab each brush out of the paint and fling and flick towards the canvas, sometimes twirling and whirling and twitching and chanting.
Once I stop – only when my brilliant subconscious has appropriately directed that I stop! – I clean the brushes and close the cans, then I say, “In every day and in every way, I am getting better and better and better.” Then I step back and admire the masterpiece my subconscious has created. Sometimes it takes a while – sometimes years – to identify brilliance among all the flung paint streams, but since I let my subconscious do the work rather than any silly and repressed focused consciousness, I know the brilliance simply must be there.
Modern art is simply a new way of destabilizing the status quo government and culture and then replacing it with the Soviet worker’s paradise.
The Soviets could not defeat America utilizing conventional means, so they created an unconventional mean. An aesthetic designed to demoralize rather than to expose beauty and uplift the human spirit.