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Old September 6th, 2014 #7
Sean Gruber
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As Mr. Linder said, if you can't eat it, fuck it, or resell it, then it's worth no money to the vast majority of so-called humanity.

The "solution" to artists' problems is now supposed to be embracing giving your art away (as promoted by jews like Lewis Hyde in The Gift). The idea is that either you do this or civilization just won't continue, so you ought to be a giv-ah. In other words, provide civilization for free--don't touch the economic system. (Most people do give it away. There is less and less interest in intellectual property rights because there is less and less money in them, which explains why you can watch or download anything for free and practically no one cares.)

The old solution was to spend as much time and effort building up educated audiences as making art. No audience means no art. So a lot of people's lives went into building institutions and schools and publications that taught the public that Shakespeare, for example, was someone to be respected, Beethoven should be respected, folk or whatever music should be heard, paintings are fascinating, this and that instrumentalist is great, etc. Cultural uplift almost always had rich sponsors, who considered it worthwhile to impress on the dumb-dumbs of the world that life might consist of more than whiskey and farmwork and they ought to shell out money to experience a bit of culture now and then.

Where is the uplift today? Where is the market, the audience? Where are the rich sponsors? As someone here pointed out, the rich now make big money by pandering to the lowest common denominator (actually lowering that denominator)--so most of them will say fuck Shakespeare or Chet Atkins or whoever. The next Shakespeare or Atkins will have to give his work away for free, if anyone will take it....

The problem with money is that it's only as valuable as what it buys. What if there is nothing to buy? What if all that's left in the end--after the last urban yodeler has muhdikked his way into nigger heaven--is money? Piles of paper, that's all. Okay, farmwork and whiskey will remain, and maybe an old drunk with a banjo on his knee. Yes, back to 1849. Hey, you could still sing in church (bringing in the sheaves!) or in the wash bucket.
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Last edited by Sean Gruber; September 6th, 2014 at 01:31 AM. Reason: clarified a few little things