Can't laugh anymore. How to write a running account of contemporary art? Just write it. A well-trained eye sees that everything is "beautiful", so a certain pile of rubbish marked "art" has to be swept away by a tasteless cleaner. Can art independently and critically criticize reality? They say yes, so we should challenge the public's bottom line, and of course challenging the bottom line means virality and click-through rates, commercial tactics and media skills. Do we want free speech? They say yes, so absolute tolerance for Tourette's in public can go hand-in-hand with mass posting threatening letters for a theft in the backlit anonymous realm. Do we want humanitarianism? They say yes, using visual crit to awaken humanity from a professional point of view does not prevent you from bypassing beggars on the way to work.
They have a set of grand rhetoric about social facts that cannot be changed by themselves, the inequality is so serious, although I am a vested interest, I am helpless and so on, implying that it is not my fault that I hurt the young heart of that child. It is caused by this social environment, and the guilt should be borne by the society rather than the individual, for which I am not even willing to say sorry.
They say that it is a mission of modern art to look at reality calmly and neutrally; at the same time, it is necessary to advocate universal sympathy, because this is an era of lack of personal feelings. This way of making accusations out of the way, and reluctantly shirk it, really makes people climax one after another. In this case, art is independent and flattering, hypocrisy like tolerance, indifference like detachment, cheap like high. Masturbation is boring and sometimes the upper class also needs to embarrass themselves, make their own jungle in the safe zone of art, release the horrible poor people like wolves, add a bit of the exotic atmosphere of the country, and it is not so easy for people in bed to turn into orangutans during sex. And the only word that wasn't a jerk was from that lunatic who couldn't control himself, "garbage!"
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