Sometimes things have to be said.
Disinformation permeates what we have held to be reality to such a degree that one’s choice of fiction determines how one lives.
Integrity absent… your choice of news determines your ‘Reality’.
The person you trusted to be looking out for your interest has just accepted substantial remuneration for services rendered in a matter in opposition to yours. And this is a man you voted for because he promised to be on your side.
Mostly ignored is how government really works.
Our American government represents the most responsive, most compassionate government that money can buy. Come on guys, when Obama looked like a possible winner, GM, Westinghouse, Bank of America climbed on board. Big money poured into a campaign that had been financed by the lower middle class, dollar by dollar.
As it did before 2009, lobby money rules! MultiGlobal Corporations have democracy in a strangle hold.
Guess who made out during the big financial crisis? Ruben, Paulson, Gietner, Somers (the happy boys of Goldman-Sachs} Check their net worth before and after.
Guess what else? War is big business. As long as there is profit there will be more of it!
Real Democracy is about people who debate issues in order to arrive at a consensus. When was the last time your voice was heard by anyone who could make a difference.
My aphorism for the 21st century” WHERE THERE IS OPPORTUNITY, THERE IS GRAFT.
Most of my friends are artists and we have long understood that the quality of our product is of no interest to those who act as ‘middlemen’ Quality has no bearing on what is promoted. There are many more artists than outlets. Middlemen can pick and choose what is shown and given status by superficial appraisal by “the validators”
The contemporary validator is not a connoisseur. A connoisseur is someone who has a background in looking and remembering. This is someone who could walk into a room full of Cézannes and have a reasonable notion which one was the superior. And could tell you why. This is a person who could look at a specific work of art and judge it by it’s own merit.
Who are the validators? Curators, writers, high-end collectors who collaborate with dealers to drive up prices with chandelier bids at auctions and other collusions.
These are newcomers to the world of art. Their education has more to do with Harvard business school than to the research at the Fogg.
Dying breed, the connoisseur. Dying breed the rich connoisseur, Dying breed, the rich connoisseur who finds interest in collecting.
If a High-end dealer, a writer, and a museum get together on a product (Artist), sales and assured fame are a given. Usually for short term. Turn- over is a necessary element in the profit scheme.
No matter what they say, the big world of corporate takeover of governments and the smaller world of Art takeover by business has one thing in common.
