Just so we're clear on what is happening here: The federal government is taking the tax money of American citizens and "awarding" it to artists who will use their talents to create propaganda which advances Obama's agenda.
Patrick Courrielche, an artist who blogs at Big Hollywood, writes of an interesting conference call he was invited to by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Can you say creepy?
“I recently wrote a critique of the art community’s lack of dissent in the face of many controversial decisions made by the current administration. Entitled “The Artist Formerly Known as Dissident,” one of the key points argued in the article was the potential danger associated with the use of the art community as a tool of the state. Little did I know how quickly this concern would be elevated to an outright probability.”
“Sometime between when I finished the critique and when it went live online, I was invited by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to take part in a conference call that invited a group of rising artist and art community luminaries “to help lay a new foundation for growth, focusing on core areas of the recovery agenda – health care, energy and environment, safety and security, education, community renewal.”
“Backed by the full weight of President Barack Obama’s call to service and the institutional weight of the NEA, the conference call was billed as an opportunity for those in the art community to inspire service in four key categories, and at the top of the list were “health care” and “energy and environment.” The service was to be attached to the President’s United We Serve campaign, a nationwide federal initiative to make service a way of life for all Americans.”
“It sounded, how should I phrase it…unusual, that the NEA would invite the art community to a meeting to discuss issues currently under vehement national debate.”
I think the word unusual is an understatement. I might have used a term like third-world-dictator-ish.
Just so we’re clear on what is happening here: The federal government is taking the tax money of American citizens and “awarding” it to artists who will use their talents to create propaganda which advances Obama’s agenda.
Ace points to Obama’s inflated sense of self as an additional reason for this:
“Ever think you can get away with doing something, probably, but then stop yourself from doing it because you don’t like where it might lead you? That is, your super-ego checks in and argues “Can you really trust yourself entirely?” and, being not altogether confident in your own integrity and capacity to resist temptation, you refrain from taking the problematic action?”
“Yeah, well, Obama has no idea what I’m talking about.”
“You know, I don’t drop the N-word much (Nazi, I mean), but seriously, if you don’t want to be called a Nazi, stop doing Nazi stuff.”
“Remember, before the NEA told them to, photographers and mainstream magazines were shooting Obama with halos and nimbuses (yes, nimbi, whatever) suggesting that he was in fact The Risen Christ.”
“Now, if the artistic community is already portraying you, ludicrously and blasphemously, as a deity, is it really necessary to ask them to work on your behalf?”
I can answer that last question, Ace. It’s necessary if you start to believe the media’s deification bullshit story about you. As most of us already suspected, Obama is drinking his own Kool-Aid.
