On
this trying time, when governments and cry-bully groups want to
decide what a child is, or a woman; who gets to teach them or give
guidelines for life and behaviour. It strikes me as odd, that the
first thing,, such people assault is – pixels on the screen. Why do
people, who claim moral superiority, hate so much, what others depict
in their artistic endeavour? Because pictures aren't serious! They
hold the mirror in front of you, allowing to laugh at yourself and
the world, like Socrates, with his dialectics. That in turn doesn't
allow to give Truths, what are indisputable. Whenever some dystopian
regime springs up, it wants to make sure, that piety and legality
would be on its side. So nobody could have its unique way, how to
solve their problems or answer their questions. Its the sign, that
somebody has stopped living their own life in this existential
turmoil, changing it to a safe pod, where your I-phone or group
thinks on your behalf, so you wouldn't stub your toe on any sharp
corners.
People
possess themselves ideologically, so they wouldn't need to take
agency nor responsibility on how life works. You don't need to worry,
why things happen or are, because you can let it be explained by
already existing dumbed down talking points.
The
most insulting about such, is then they try to be against Puritans or
some other Religious Organisation, who failed in giving the society
its wholesome self-realisation, failing to see, how they are the same
people, with a different label. This is the point, there art,
especially anime and manga, or video games, can give you a point of
reference, showing life without the officially affirmed ideology. For
once accepting the Brave New World, people loose the ability to live
in the ideological wilderness, because its thoughts are not processed
enough, nor its environments with enough built-in comfort.
Art
can show two contradicting ideas together; how our own ideas came to
be, and got disputed or even overruled. Ideologically possessed
people don't like that, because they want to be Progress and
Inevitable. Something at the End of History.
Life
and thought is Chaotic, in a constant state of Flux. Just as a monk
saying a zen koan or mystic standing in deep prayer. Where is no
secret source code, what can define everything, which frightens
those, who seek safety at the cost of freedom. At the same time,
those same groups advocate for freedom, while trying to take
innocence away. I will never trust entities, who advocate to lower
the age of consent, or giving children rights to choose stuff, where
you already should have established your own Sense of Self. How can
children choose, what gender they are, then you need a degree in a
University to understand and talk about those topics, to be perceived
as scientific and accurate? Children should learn first, what the
different elements of existence are, then they can choose, what they
like or dislike. A Child can feel like a dog; an astronaut; an alien
from Krypton; a tiger etc. before he accepts his fate of being the
Self he found in his family and immediate surrounding; the tools and
decisions, what sculpted him of being the Unique while also being
ordinary.
An
ideologically possessed person can't stand ordinary, because then you
won't be heard. To them art is not a mediator of thought, how you can
else see the world, but competition, he needs to fight in order to
get to the promised land. That's why I see so much resemblance
between the woke; Collective Shout, and the Witch Trials of Salem.
Fear-mongering; gaslighting and moral outrage on a misconstrued
image, where the only right answer is choosing the offered talking
points and legislature, like Jesus in Sunday School. Having free,
unrestricted art, even if its pornographic or provocative, is what
helped to build our society. Now people try to burn down the Library
of Alexandria yet again, to cast us back into the dark ages. Just
trust the science and the polls we paid for and hate the Christians
and throw them in front of the lions at the Theatre, for the children
are in danger. Just let us control all anonymous congregation, so we
could discern, if there was no dissent against authorities and harm
against the children. The nude statue of David or the Woman
breastfeeding an old man to symbolize charity among the poor would
not be possible in current day climate, because it would be seen as
harmful and intolerant. Meanwhile sharing sextoys or positions with
minors, who cannot consent, is seen as enabling to reaffirm
themselves. By who's standards, may I ask? Who benefits, then you
infantilize the adults and overadultry the children? You can do crazy
shit with kids this day, both legally and virtually, but you cannot
depict animations on children having wholesome heteronormative
interaction, because suddenly its too haram and makes the fairies
die, because you didn't believe in it enough, as was the narrative
with Peter Pan. People, who constantly push you, either our way or
the Highway, are seldom right. Especially if they go against free
expression, which hurt their feelings. Even the cat can look at the
emperor without being hanged, yet nowadays this parable starts fading
away. More Art and Self-Expression, People! That's the best
disinfectant against intolerance and Shoutdowns where the Individual
is ostracized for being different. Learn to accept, that just like
you have the right to be yourself, your neighbour has it too! Your
right to be yourself shouldn't dance on your parents graves, but try
to learn from them. Know Yourself, Tolerate Yourself, while seeing
art as your mediator not adversary and fiend. Those who discover
their artistry, will be gratified by the fruits of their labour or as
the greek would say: Ars
Gratia Artis!
