On Controversial Art (Life Lessons 3)

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00:00So there's this phenomenon about controversial works of art that there's

00:08the establishment that wants to suppress and take down and attack

00:14controversial works of art. And this arises because there is a viewership or

00:24a viewer base, listeners, watchers, whatever, that don't know how to receive the art. And so they

00:32make it depressed or they might get angry at something that's controversial. They watch it

00:37and they get in a bad mood and they're ticked off. So what happens is the establishment then

00:45goes after the art, the song, the movie, the picture, whatever it is. And then they take

00:50that down, they suppress it, they eliminate it. But that's the wrong thing to do. The

00:55problem is not the art or the artist or the platform it's on. The problem is that you have

01:02this viewer base, these people, these listeners, these watchers that don't know how to receive

01:07the art. It's not the artist's fault. It's not the song or the movie. The problem is that you

01:13have a group of people that receive the art poorly. They don't know how to take it. They

01:17don't know how to listen to it and think about it and digest it correctly. They don't think

01:23about how is this going to affect me. How do I want this to affect me the right way? Am

01:29I going to let it affect me negatively or positively? So it's up to the listener, the viewer to decide

01:34for themselves. It's not the responsibility of the artist to live the life of their viewer

01:43or to take care or to raise the viewer. It's up to the viewer. It's their responsibility.

01:50So the problem is not the song or the movie or whatever it is. They shouldn't be taken down.

01:56These songs and movies and such shouldn't be banned. They should be left up. It's art. Art

02:02should not be suppressed. Rather, we need to foster in the public people who receive art

02:11correctly, intelligent, strong, smart people who know how to look and receive and view art

02:17and appreciate it correctly and not blame and insult and attack it. We need an establishment

02:23that's intelligent enough to support art, even if it's deemed so-called controversial, quote,

02:30controversial or dirty or explicit, whatever you want to call it. We need a more intelligent system

02:38that supports art, even if it's naughty or nasty. These labels we put on them there are totally

02:45ridiculous and absurd and not even worth discussing because they're so wrong. But the art is good.

02:57Leave the art up. That's the point.