Sunday 9 April 2023

Happy whatever you wish to call it, readers

We like to ask the easy questions here:

Is there some "art" which deserves to be cancelled, with changed sensibilities?

As this is an OoL type question ... the right to do this or that, cancel culture etc. ... the bulk of this post will appear in both places.  Consider this, by Ms Eliza Goodpasture (is she for real?) at the Grauniad of course:

Even as other ‘great artists’ are beginning to be held to account, Picasso has clung on to his status as the most important, and most famous, artist of the 20th century. Genius transcends misogyny, apparently. It is impossible to separate Picasso’s work from his life, and equally impossible to escape the legacy of his enormous oeuvre. But we can escape the narrow definition of ‘great’ that limits the history of art to men like Picasso.
Up front, I'm going to opine that I don't really like his art, even Guernica, but he certainly had some skill, as did Dali, Magritte and Escher.  So did Leni Riefenstahl, so did the Soviet artists whose works were in the Moscow Metro.  So did Hirst with his preggers teen?  Probably Tracy Emin did not have what it took, nor Jackson Pollock.And what of Michaelangelo and the Last Supper?


Anyway, getting back to Picasso:


So "we" ... as if "we" have any relevance whatsoever to anyone ... to the cabal of psychos above ... to their myrmidons ... to the "vee voz just following orders" karens ... to the ovine normies with their reality TV and talkback radio ... what if "we" decide something is now in poor taste?

Do we start making every man, woman and child pay interminable reparations, as a certain loony royal plans to do, just because he's Green Man and he says so? And what if a bunch of mutilating, family wrecking, violent psychos get it into their heads that non-women are just as much women as women?


Do 92.3K people's voices count for anything?  Or what of the millions across cities and towns in France right now, singularly ignored by the MSM? Or what of the good people of Tintagel, Cornwall?


Is this so offensive to public taste below that you must send the riot squad in to apprehend the lady who had these in her local pub?


While this is completely ignored:


And what of the unfashionable Christians such as that lady "silently praying in her head" near a local abortion clinic in the light of this:


And if your conclusion is that we must be fanatically libertarian, that anyone can do anything and not be restricted whatsoever, in any shape or form, even to save someone ... what about this lot?


Have that lot the right to ply their raping and murdering trade because it's their culture's values?

And lastly, on Resurrection Day today, do you know what Maundy Thursday actually means (Last Supper again)?  It means where the Lord gave his greatest commandment:
Love one another as I have loved you.
Go ahead, do all the things covered in this post as your interpretation of that commandment.

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