{"id":16513,"date":"2017-04-12T18:18:17","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T01:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=16513"},"modified":"2017-04-12T18:18:17","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T01:18:17","slug":"but-hitler-loved-the-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2017\/04\/12\/but-hitler-loved-the-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"But… Hitler loved the Arts."},"content":{"rendered":"

Hm<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When I think of the Nationalist Socialist regime of Adolf Hitler, I do not think of a drastic cut-back on federal funding of the “Arts”.\u00c2\u00a0 Granted, maybe we do at some points in the sphere land on the age old question “Yes.\u00c2\u00a0 But is it Art?”<\/p>\n

— I’m sure Leni Riefenstahl was pretty well funded, and if you go ahead and charge “That’s Propaganda, not Art” — well… I find it difficult to imagine that the Arts being funded by Winston Churchill during that famed World War 2 mis-quote<\/a> being bandied about included much questioning military operations —<\/p>\n

At least there’s a whole mass of beautific structures being thrown out there.\u00c2\u00a0 A Wagner opera here and there.\u00c2\u00a0 (Or, as so happens, as things got defined as decadent and destructive to the moral fibre of Germany… Italian figures such as Verdi… apparently<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Speaking of which, Mussolini’s Fasci was quite good at paying Ezra Pound for new writings.\u00c2\u00a0 And, sure, this would be by definition the worst output of Ezra Pound…<\/p>\n

Totalitarian Russia liked its artists… those that advanced the state cause, of course, uplift the proletariat.<\/p>\n

It is amusing to consider, in the argument against Trump’s cutting of federal funding of the Arts — the very notion of “The Arts” as a bullwark to stop Trump…<\/p>\n

The federal government is giving arts grants for things like that? Wait, tell me again why you want to cut the NEA out, Mr. President? There was a great New Yorker cartoon years ago showing an artist painting a portrait of a businessman, with the words \u00e2\u20ac\u0153FUC YOU\u00e2\u20ac\u009d written on the bottom. All it lacked was the K. The artist turned to the businessman with his hand out, and asked for a donation to help him finish the painting.<\/em><\/p>\n

It is that idea from one thing that considers itself “The Arts” that the very presence of the man in the White House shows a failure of “The Arts” to permeate the culture, and what is needed is to get more…<\/p>\n

… er… “Piss Christ” out there, to make the people think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hm. When I think of the Nationalist Socialist regime of Adolf Hitler, I do not think of a drastic cut-back on federal funding of the “Arts”.\u00c2\u00a0 Granted, maybe we do at some points in the sphere land on the age old question “Yes.\u00c2\u00a0 But is it Art?” — I’m sure Leni Riefenstahl was pretty well […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16513"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16515,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16513\/revisions\/16515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}