File spoon-archives/avant-garde.archive/avant-garde_1996/96-11-30.184, message 131


Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 00:39:14 -0600 (CST)
From: jelly-AT-mail.utexas.edu (Jessica and Sterlings Mail)
Subject: Re: Transnacionala review


>>Now if the artist could only think of the  revolution in history...
>>
>>The funny part is I agree with you; "political" artists nauseate me- 
>
>I think I know what you mean by "political" artists

I think we're on similar wavelengths, too

>But I don't think that because art might have a political perfume about it
>makes it bad. 

I don't know that I could ever use that broad of a criteria either, but I
think that art that is political and considers itself utilitarian is not
HONEST WITH THEMSELVES (perhaps should have said that to begin with)

>And of course, in the sense we are using it, "political"
>usually means "left". How did that happen in this culture? I find that an
>interesting question. 
>
>Millie Neon

In relation to the activities of activists, yes, with the exception of lots
of pro-lifers most political activism is probably left of center.  How;
well, regardless of how much the
family-values-traditional-upbringing(pro-50s-TV-imaginary-world-that-just-tw
eren't-there), well, this country was founded by religious ZEALOTS.
Puritans.  Their work ethic is still with us, the family unit they brought
is still with us (though, as Marx predicted- with the continual
specializaiton of machines- more and more people are forced to have a
career, which means family second; we should leave this alone, though if
anyone is interested, a friend and I have a great thread going on the
foundations of patriarchy, across the board, across the board),and, of
course, the right to rule of the elite land-owning white male is still with
us (anyone who beleives this is a democracy where we actually, truly have a
choice of who runs, needs to take a close look; realistically, power is
secure in the hands of the families it came over with, or their pet o' the
month; again, uh hole-uther cannawurms).

The point (somewhere in there) was that most activism attempts to dethrone
the pharoah.  And even beyond that, anything that is "non-status-quo", is,
by definition, "left".



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