Leftist art for me has to be modernist or meta-modernist. We value art that empowers someone to say something new. Art nouveau is an artisan being well-compensated to replace commodities with nature worship, dada is an absurdist attack against imperial propaganda, impressionism is the average schmuck’s every day experience, social and socialist realism are inverting the power dynamics of western art, brutalism strips ornamentation to reinvent utility, constructivism is workers imagining something new, cubism and pointilism are pushing the limits of visual perspective, etc. Even my favourite classical music is stuff that used the shock of the new to make people understand something dissonant as consonant.
Right-wingers can’t do any of that. At best they have a gaudy cult of tradition that modernism directly rebelled against. For the ones that are too lazy to LARP as medieval Catholics, they’re also too lazy to come up with a new idea. That new idea doesn’t serve any purpose for them, and worse it might empower a worker to paint it. Any kind of change it might spark is a threat to people who are too scared to go shopping without an emotional support gun. AI art lets people who are pure Freudian id shit out their impulses as fast as they can feel them. It’s useless to us because it can only regurgitate its training data and cut into the self-reflection that’s critical for leftist art, but a right-winger’s entire worldview is regurgitating their training data and avoiding self-reflection.
Meh, it’s basically saying some people are working on nothing more than their impulses and therefore not wholly human. Not the freudian id part itself, but the entire sentence “people who are pure Freudian id”.
Leftist art for me has to be modernist or meta-modernist. We value art that empowers someone to say something new. Art nouveau is an artisan being well-compensated to replace commodities with nature worship, dada is an absurdist attack against imperial propaganda, impressionism is the average schmuck’s every day experience, social and socialist realism are inverting the power dynamics of western art, brutalism strips ornamentation to reinvent utility, constructivism is workers imagining something new, cubism and pointilism are pushing the limits of visual perspective, etc. Even my favourite classical music is stuff that used the shock of the new to make people understand something dissonant as consonant.
Right-wingers can’t do any of that. At best they have a gaudy cult of tradition that modernism directly rebelled against. For the ones that are too lazy to LARP as medieval Catholics, they’re also too lazy to come up with a new idea. That new idea doesn’t serve any purpose for them, and worse it might empower a worker to paint it. Any kind of change it might spark is a threat to people who are too scared to go shopping without an emotional support gun. AI art lets people who are pure Freudian id shit out their impulses as fast as they can feel them. It’s useless to us because it can only regurgitate its training data and cut into the self-reflection that’s critical for leftist art, but a right-winger’s entire worldview is regurgitating their training data and avoiding self-reflection.
Goes hard. Perfect description of these dorks.
Meh, it’s basically saying some people are working on nothing more than their impulses and therefore not wholly human. Not the freudian id part itself, but the entire sentence “people who are pure Freudian id”.