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Joseph P. Farrell posted an update 8 years ago
It may sound strange, but because of the book I’m researching, a tangential area of thought emerged, and that is aesthetical philosophy, and I’ve been doing a lot of private musing and writing about it. I’ve been thinking a lot about why we’re in this cultural and moral swamp. No conclusions yet but a whole plethora of tentative hypotheses.
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. . . maybe you’d be willing to share some of them in the vidchat tomorrow ???
Well this sent me off into an interesting meander….. Dadaism to Avant Garde to Saint-Simonianism to Olinde Rodrigues to Quarternions to William Rowan Hamilton…. my word the links are extraordinary! I also stopped by Alexander Baumgarten. Wow! Thank you.
Hi Dr F. I feel particulary affected by the decline of ‘high’ art into the quagmire of sensationalism and artist cultism that Dadaism unfortunately bequethed us..especially when you see the evil people who claim to be art critics..
For the benefit of my fellow GDS’ers… here’s something to read 🙂
https://archive.org/stream/Decline-Of-The-West-Oswald-Spengler/Decline_Of_The_West_djvu.txt
https://archive.org/stream/Tavistock_201601/Coleman_John_-_The_Tavistock_Institute_of_Human_Relations_djvu.txt
However.. because I love everyone here so much, I will give you the ‘Too many links, my brain has wondered off’ version…
Art has declined due to rich people. (and I very much suspect ruling class level rich people.. yes 13 bloodlines level) It has become an art fashion trend in the West to emphasize “true art” to promote the wealthy elite’s distinction to the common rabble. That being : Poor scum, you cant understand the artistic value of a head sculpted out of blood.. or a rape victims tampons being glued to a wall, Thus the wealthy elite can sneer at poor people with a sense of pity “It’s no surprise that you are so poor. Quite frankly it has to do with your intelligence.” Then fully convinced of their own superiority these inbred child abusers can keep on assuming their entitled existence secure in the knowledge that only they can understand.
more click-a-thon (but I fully recommend it if you can and or have the time.. )
Youtube : (I cant find a ‘legal’.. pdf copy of his work “Collapse of Complex Societies by Dr. Joseph Tainter” so here is the man himself telling you what he meant…) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddmQhIiVM48 (series of 7 videos)
I mean.. as far as aesthetic criticism goes as a definition.. I think the last real ‘artist’ to tackle the subject awas Kant..
https://monoskop.org/images/7/77/Kant_Immanuel_Critique_of_Judgment_1987.pdf
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-weapon-1578808.html
The CIA fostered and promoted American Abstract Expressionist painting around the world for more than 20 years. The connection is improbable. This was a period, in the 1950s and 1960s, when the great majority of Americans disliked or even despised modern art – President Truman summed up the popular view when he said: “If that’s art, then I’m a Hottentot.” As for the artists themselves, many were ex-communists barely acceptable in the America of the McCarthyite era, and certainly not the sort of people normally likely to receive US government backing…. The decision to include culture and art in the US Cold War arsenal was taken as soon as the CIA was founded in 1947.
Dismayed at the appeal communism still had for many intellectuals and artists in the West, the new agency set up a division, the Propaganda Assets Inventory, which at its peak could influence more than 800 newspapers, magazines and public information organisations. They joked that it was like a Wurlitzer jukebox: when the CIA pushed a button it could hear whatever tune it wanted playing across the world.
Sadness overwhelms me when I think of how naive so many of us were back then, never dreaming the world was full of those who would destroy our way of life and everything we held dear.
Moral relativism , cultural relativism. Modernism, Americans, CIA , Mi5-6, Signals Intel GCHQ, Disney and Hollywood. Crypto Jews. Nazi Int. Federal reserve. If your plethora of hypothesis tangentially or securely fasten on these areas you are over the target. I am getting more and more drawn into thinking of Miles Mathis – from Miles Mathis paper on Hemingway , “This time I was sent to research Hemingway, though again, I can’t really say why. My recent papers proving that the CIA has been involved in the promotion of Modernism have given me suspicions about absolutely everyone famous in the arts, but logic would tell me that many are far more suspicious than Hemingway. I have never even thought of Hemingway as a Modern, though my research now informs me I was wrong about that. All I knew before today is what is left of my old readings and conversations. We were assigned A Farewell to Arms in my junior year in high school, and I disliked it for many reasons. These reasons match up very well with the reasons John Irving gave in The New York Times in the summer of 2012: he hated the short sentences, the sparse journalistic style, and the macho posing. In addition, I also hated the cardboard characters, the emotionless and humorless.”
http://mileswmathis.com/beat.pdf
Yes, please do share…