Four Freedoms After All

What freedoms do people need to work with culture? Or, to phrase the
question another way, what human rights exist as a result of the
existence of culture?

These freedoms may be disparate. Art may not need the same freedoms as
journalism. But different areas of cultural endeavour need access to
each other to continue the conversation of culture. Art draws on
literature and criticism, and vice versa. Even if one artist may not use
advertising imagery another may, or a musician the first artist enjoys
listening to (or is inspired by) may. This means that an individual may
not benefit from specific instances of use of their work, but will
benefit from the general ability to use others

Comments

, Eric Dymond

Hi Rob,
I have been sitting back with a very good bottle of wine and going over a number of emails/postings etc. on a quiet Thursday night.
Maybe it was the wine, but I think Stallman's error is in identifying power structures.
It's all well and good to set out parameters but without the correct, established support we're just spitting into the wind.
As I see it, and I am smiling while writing this,
shouldn't we really be trying to entice, ensnare and otherwise con the Alpha Males that control the known universe to become artists.
"WHat is is he talking about ", you immediately query.
Well, here's the deal.
Alpha males continue to control the economies of the free and not-so-free world.
How do we get them onside?
It seems the general mediated populace is drawn to their exploits.
I myself am a hybrid male, part alpha / part beta.
But never the less.
Let's get the Alpha males interested in the Arts, in a productive way.
Hunter S. Thompson, Francis Bacon and many others were hybrid males, but they missed the mark.
What is the Alpha Male looking for?
How about this, we offer an online art course and use the following catch phrases for marketing.
" Blood, Hate, Madness and Death, see it all in the paintings of Edvard Munch".
I am hoping for input here, any catch phrases you can think of will be considered. Respond to this thread only and we will put up a Freedom for the Arts website with diploma granting status for qualified Alpha Males.
Now thats a plan,
Eric
(stil smiling, still dreaming)

, Rob Myers

Eric Dymond wrote:
> I think Stallman's error is in identifying power structures.
> It's all well and good to set out parameters but without the correct, established support we're just spitting into the wind.
> As I see it, and I am smiling while writing this,
> shouldn't we really be trying to entice, ensnare and otherwise con the Alpha Males that control the known universe to become artists.
> "WHat is is he talking about ", you immediately query.
> Well, here's the deal.
> Alpha males continue to control the economies of the free and not-so-free world.
> How do we get them onside?

Certainly we cannot just wish away the problems that Stallman
identifies. But Copyleft uses one of the structures created by power (or
"the alpha males" as you describe it/them) against itself. It ironises
copyright law to reverse its intention. It's a judo-throw (Naomi Klein),
using the weight of the law against itself.

> It seems the general mediated populace is drawn to their exploits.
> I myself am a hybrid male, part alpha / part beta.
> But never the less.
> Let's get the Alpha males interested in the Arts, in a productive way.
> Hunter S. Thompson, Francis Bacon and many others were hybrid males, but they missed the mark.
> What is the Alpha Male looking for?
> How about this, we offer an online art course and use the following catch phrases for marketing.
> " Blood, Hate, Madness and Death, see it all in the paintings of Edvard Munch".
> I am hoping for input here, any catch phrases you can think of will be considered. Respond to this thread only and we will put up a Freedom for the Arts website with diploma granting status for qualified Alpha Males.
> Now thats a plan,
> Eric
> (stil smiling, still dreaming)

Throughout history, art has attached itself to the rich and powerful.
Royalty and nobility would produce art as well as commissioning it
("Greensleeves" is by Henry VIII). We seem to have lost this link, and
it could be that you are right that we need to restore it.

- Rob.