We’re all so desperate to have someone stand up to him that millions of words were spent searching a Drake diss track for hidden slams on Trump.
I do it too.
Then my own art suffers because I feel guilty if I’m not using that art to fight the fight. And I’m relatively small beans.
I do it too.
Then my own art suffers because I feel guilty if I’m not using that art to fight the fight. And I’m relatively small beans.
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If it can’t crush it, the gravity. of authoritarianism forces culture to orbit power instead of self-expression
The result is the same: nothing moves. It can’t; to fascists, moving on is unthinkable. They are forever
He knows art lasts. So he takes over the Kennedy Center to try to make sure culture takes him with it into the long future. Assuming, as all rich men do, that controlling establishment art means controlling all art.
Social media used to be about all kinds of things. It used to be dynamic & weird & unpredictable.
Now a huge % of online content is about Trump & Musk. Were held in place by these egos’ addiction to themselves.
But there’s no punk renaissance here. American artists are stuck either repeating PLEASE STOP or having their work combed over for a presumed hidden PLEASE STOP.
And on top of it all you can’t stress everyone out, replace them with AI, and expect anyone to do their best or most groundbreaking work under that mountain of shit. /🧵