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The wrong people have free time for art
People who will make something like this have lived privlidged and coddled lives, they’ve never seriously been challenged or struggled with poverty. They’ve lived in a nice safe little bubble. And you can’t make great art if you don’t properly understand the human experience. Not saying that you need to have struggled to make art, but when your existence, you life, has been easier than 99% of humanity, you aren’t going to be able to properly connect on a human level to that rest of humanity.
Not saying that you need to have struggled to make art, but when your existence, you life, has been easier than 99% of humanity, you aren’t going to be able to properly connect on a human level to that rest of humanity.
This is also why I think music artists who break through via connecting with people and current conditions end up being shit later on. Their success transforms their lives and they lose the connection they had struggle that allowed them to make that art in the first place. They were writing about their own experiences, and they continue to write about their own experiences later but it hits different because their conditions changed.
The politically well educated artists understand this and aim to keep their connection but many are very unaware of it.
It’s the same with traditional artists as well. A lot of art in galleries made by “big name artists” is incredibly vapid and empty, and only appeals to equally vapid and empty people, they feature such concepts like “Too much social media bad” or “War bad” no nuance, understanding or subtlety, just simple, basic, easy to digest, unchallenging slop. The execution is usually good, because they are usually quite skilled in the technical part of art, but the actual “meaning” and “empathy” parts are just atrophied. But big fancy art gallery pieces are made to appeal to the ultra rich who purchase them as tax write-offs, so it would make sense that it would need to be the same sort of vapid shit as above.
Not saying that you need to have struggled to make art
“Good parents have never made a good artist.”
The first one was like, okay, lame, cheesy, feel-good nonsense but largely harmless.
the second one is fucking gross though, like they just need to hug it out. fuck
it’s saying they need to smash israel to free palestine. Or maybe the lib has a different resolution pictured.
That would be a hilarious thing to do
Yeah, based on the first one being a generic anti-war statement, I made an assumption, but I can see how you could be correct. I think that’s giving them a bit too much credit, but I see your point.
Either way, a big obvious problem with the “metaphor” (I hate to even give it that kind of credit) is that it presents Israel and Palestine as being equal with respect to the problem, they’re symmetric. That to me is what’s most lib-ignorant and gross about it.
That’s a great point, I missed that.
Umlaut in Israel
This is fucking German, isn’t it?
Probably French, actually. There are exactly two major languages where Israel is officially spelled Israël, and those are Dutch and French; of those two, the only one that says Palestine rather than Palestina is French.
You’re quite a language nerd, so I’ll take your word for it lol!
Québécois in this case.
half of my qt are english speakers just now realizing that french uses the trëma
https://twiiit.com/knottedhairs/status/1942025466010808663 https://twiiit.com/knottedhairs/status/1942286587443736939
German doesn’t have an Umlaut for e, just for a, o, and u.
No, I have never seen it used specifically in Israel, but it is a diaeresis. It indicates that adjacent vowels are in separate syllables. It is most commonly seen in words like naïve.
Israel is indeed a giant puddle of diaeresis
It’s not an Umlaut, it’s a diaeresis, so most likely French or Dutch, probably French cause of the spelling of Palestine (it’d be Palestina in Dutch)
Harry Pottery
Israel needlessly restraining Palestine, accurate
what if instead it said “smoke pot. not war”? that would be awesome. weed.
Fuck you I’m smoking war
I guess “Two State Solution” isn’t appealing as a slogan these days, when it’s apparent to even the most braindead clog that one state is going to violently subsume the other
The linked cups are an apt metaphor then. For either to function, one must be shattered
I said this in response to a different comment, but it applies even more here:
A big obvious problem with the “metaphor” (I hate to even give it that kind of credit) is that it presents Israel and Palestine as being equal with respect to the problem, they’re symmetric. That to me is what’s most lib-ignorant and gross about it.
Honestly, I think the only way a two state solution might work is if we all acknowledge the Mormons are right and construct a Jewish homeland in America.
I would love to subject Israel to the terrors of Salt Lake City
And vice versa tbh. A match made in
heavenzionMake them deal with the White Pharaoh
Most reasonable plan I ever heard
Vogon poetry
Liberal potteryas long as the israel cup exists the palestine cup cannot stand upright
subliminal confession from the lib
Make pots, not war
The design principles on bombs are pretty badass, though, let’s hang on to those.
What do you mean it’ll muddle the message?
