Art and Politics
Do not mix them
You know how water and oil don’t mix, right? And the only way you can get them to mix (in a manner of speaking) is using what’s called an emulsifier? Well, what do you think happens when you mix art — which transcends everything — and politics? They don’t mix, that’s what happens.
Now, before you get upset or anything or think more celebrities, actors, singers, or the ilk need to get political, nothing could be further from the truth. We have artists, and we have politicians — we don’t have “artiticians” or “polists.” When you start coming down from art and into politics, things start to become extremely messed up very quickly. Politics are their own branch, and taught in universities. Art is inherit in the person, and the only thing that can be “taught” is how to hold a paintbrush, how to use a camera, how to light up a stage, etc. In other words, you cannot teach art. You can teach how to do certain things in and around art, but art itself cannot be taught. It is truly inherit to each individual, and not everyone has that drive.
So that, right there, tells you that not everyone can be artists, but many can be taught to be politicians. And with that being said, just like I have said in my other articles, philosophers of time immemorial have praised artists, so it goes to show that artists really need to get their noses our of politics. There is such a huge responsibility artists carry with them — as they mold the cultures around them for centuries after they’ve lived — that by them actually coming down from their lofty plain where not everyone can factually understand them into this little boxing-match game of politics is actually not only petty for the artist, but speaks volumes of them as a person.
Artists have the ability to sway, persuade and change the minds of billions of people — billions. So when they are threatened that they will be “blacklisted in Hollywood” if they are “not Democrat” or say this, that or the other thing, what does that tell you as an artist? YOU NEED TO GET OUT OF THAT ENVIRONMENT. You are being threatened that your livelihood as an artist is going to cease if you don’t conform to a Socialist, Communism, Authoritarian or Fascist mindset — that’s politics. Artists don’t need that sh*t. Artists are above that short of barbarism of control. Yet remember when I said artists are magnets for bad and evil people? Because artists are free-thinkers and have the ability to transcend everything and thus everyone and reach billions of people and get them to be free-thinking, why do you think bad or evil politicians want to control artists and get them to say the sh*t they want them to say? BECAUSE THEY KNOW PEOPLE WILL LISTEN TO THE ARTISTS, NOT POLITICIANS!
I don’t care if you’re Democrat, Republican, Green Party, Independent, or Libertarian. Politics need to stay out of art. Any party that gives massive incentives to artists for them to preach their own values, or blacklists artists who are, on a personal level, registered as the other party or spoke about voting for “so and so,” or even fires artists from a series because you spoke out about the lies of that party, or gets huge artists to endorse you to make their campaign shoot up in popularity are the snakes, the vampires and evil people who do not care about you as a person or artist, but are manipulatively using you to meet their own political agendas — and a fatter bank account. And what begins to happen is you get people who look up to these artists now all of the sudden no longer thinking for themselves, but agreeing with everything the artist is now spitting out because they got their Met Gala ticket comped, or whatever — the artist is now helping the brainwashing.
Another thing that begins to happen is the quality of the art degrades. I don’t know about you, but ever notice how, especially within the last 20, even 10 or 5 years, the films have increasingly been getting worse? Though the technology on film making is getting insanely good, the actual art — the quality — is going out the bottom? Why, do you think? BECAUSE POLITICS HAVE GOTTEN INTO ART! It’s in our universities that teaches art, the colleges, the schools, the art classes, critics who critique art now are getting political, celebrities spout out political nonsense, actors are taught to be political parrots and not to think for themselves as artists anymore and that the only way they can make it in this industry is to conform and be like everyone else and spew political cr*p, artists are fired or blacklisted for being a free-thinker and speaking out about what they think and believe or calling out the bullsh*t that is clearly evident but these political parties don’t want it known.
I don’t care if you’re gay, straight, trans or lesbian — I just want to see a really good movie. I don’t care if you’re pro-Trump or pro-Biden — I just want you to make me believe you are Hamlet for a night at the local theater. I don’t care if you’re all about dog rights — I just want to see the amazing painting you created for the children’s hospital. I don’t care if you identify as a moose — I just want to hear a song that’s going to bend the senses and take me on a journey. Don’t you see? The more artists start getting involved with politics, the more people start to avoid them. And it’s hard enough in this world as it is as an artist, why make it even harder? The simplest thing people will think is “that artist is a sell-out,” but there are far worse things people think, say or will do to avoid giving you money because of the political cr*p. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is one of many who sold out, and I personally know hundreds of people who now refuse to see anything he’s involved in — he’s just ruined the longevity of his career by that much. Now take into account many other artists who’ve done the same — why do you think Hollywood is dying? Do you see? When you mix art and politics, you get people leaving Hollywood, Chicago and New York in droves, people tuning out of TV and streaming-service shows, people turning music off, people no longer going to movie theaters (so the theater companies think the solution is to RAISE THE TICKET PRICES), people un-following/supporting/blocking some celebrities on social media, and the list goes on. The amount of people who “support” this sick-mix of subjects is TINY compared to the 80+ percent that avoid it like the plague. Don’t believe me? DuckDuckGo the statistics and see what happened right before, and during, the decline.
I hope this article helps you understand how truly important you are as an artist and how you don’t need politics to boost your career. Because in most cases it actually destroys it, or the culture you’re injecting with it. Look at what happened to Germany before WWII: the art was mixed with politics, and now millions of people are dead… Do you see how utterly impactful art is? Why the f*** do you think these politicians are abusing and using artists? It’s not to boost your career, that’s for f***ing sure.
Anyway, I hope this shows you that you, as an artist, are far more important to yourself and society without politics!
