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Art is also political, and more popular with open minded people than regressives. Fascists have historically hated art.
Not entirely true, they can't get enough of art that is exactly like the things they already like. A boring landscape that could have been painted a century earlier? They love that shit.
But if you dare try to get creative (with message or medium) they will demand your head.
Id say that is exactly why they hate art. Art is inherently an extension of oneself, everything from a beserk warrior creating poetry as they fight to a master craftsman working for a week straight on a statue are expressions of art. Hell even things not generally considered art could still be classified as being from the same expression, like a person restoring and touching up an old axe.
Fascistshate personhood, they wish to strip away all that is unique if not in a literal sense then by a cultural sense. They hat the broad capacity of mankind thusly they hate art. Reminder Hitler threw a bitch fit when German archeologistswere digging up actual ancient Germanic and pre Germanic villages because it broke his narrative.
Republicans need people to stop making art because they want everyone to be dependent on low wage jobs at chain stores.
If you can support yourself in a way that isn't lining the pockets of the ultra wealthy you're "hurting america" or some bullshit like that.
True. And art brings people together who might then talk to each other and find allies and form a base of communication centered around something other than "do what I say or I'll punish you." There's lots not to like about it if you're trying to destroy a country's democratic institutions.
This is the better answer. People don't want a bleak, colorless world, they want art that makes them feel good.
But art isn't something that makes you feel good necessarily. It can but it also can make you feel other things, it's a tool for conveying feelings and ideas to someone else, it's a type of communication. We were supposed to have been taught this as children, that art is communication and we have to be able to hear and see things that make us uncomfortable or we will never, ever succeed in life at the things we want.
Fascists don't want people empowered, they want people's imagination squashed so people don't imagine an alternative narrative to the propaganda that keeps people propping up their dear leader. All channels of communication will be controlled.
This is some toddler-level conceptual understanding. When we start banning forms of communication then everyone should stand up and point at someone trying to undo society. This is a real threat to everything we've accomplished as a species.
This is the better answer. People don't want a bleak, colorless world, they want art that makes them feel good.
But art isn't something that makes you feel good necessarily. It can but it also can make you feel other things, it's a tool for conveying feelings and ideas to someone else, it's a type of communication. We were supposed to have been taught this as children, that art is communication and we have to be able to hear and see things that make us uncomfortable or we will never, ever succeed in life at the things we want.
Fascists don't want people empowered, they want people's imagination squashed so people don't imagine an alternative narrative to the propaganda that keeps people propping up their dear leader. All channels of communication will be controlled.
This is some toddler-level conceptual understanding. When we start banning forms of communication then everyone should stand up and point at someone trying to undo society. This is a real threat to everything we've accomplished as a species.