{"id":2272,"date":"2008-03-17T05:33:50","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T10:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2272"},"modified":"2008-03-17T11:04:34","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T16:04:34","slug":"ill-make-an-exception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2272","title":{"rendered":"I’ll Make An Exception"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve said it in the past; conservatives need to engage the world of art. Not as opponents, necessarily (although there is much to criticize in art – both in specific pieces of it, songs and paintings and plays and what-not, but the way art is practiced in our society, especially the big, grant-driven institutional “arts” organizations) and consumers, but as participants.<\/p>\n

And I’ll stand by that.<\/p>\n

That said, I believe a strike force from “Complete Rejection of Asinine Performance-art” (CRAP), with tear gas and attack dogs, would have been better and more appropriate in responding to <\/strike>this bit here<\/strike><\/a>.<\/strike><\/p>\n

“ooh, look – a cynical critique of the hustle and bustle of the hopeless bourgeois life. We, the artists, who exist an a more noble plane, will silently mock their exertions, then scamper, giggling, away, wrapped in our smug sense of superiority”.<\/strike><\/p>\n

OK, maybe this bit caught me in a bad mood. It happens.<\/p>\n

Discuss amongst yourselves – the only ground rule is that nobody may use the term “Neo-Con” even once.<\/p>\n

But don’t get me started on that vacuous publicity-monger Spencer Tunick. Definitely tear gas and dogs for him.<\/p>\n

UPDATE:\u00a0 You’re right.\u00a0 I was wrong.\u00a0 I wrote the above after a crappy day.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Objection withdrawn.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Except for the Spencer Tunick bit.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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