Edit: I just want to say that the dream in my previous post happened after I was dancing around my room in the dark listening to trance and techno music. I've been thinking about buying like UV stuff too but I probably won't ever get around to that. I just want to turn my bedroom into a kind of psychedelic alien rave type space because that's cool but I'd have to move stuff around a lot because I don't want it there all the time necessarily. There are so many cool tapestries but I can't change them all the time as it suits me.
But there's an invasion of moths here right now loads and loads of moths. I'm constantly having to move them outside as I don't want to kill them. Trying lavender right now but doesn't seem to be working. A bunch of them also in the bath/shower yesterday. I had to move them, they were in the way while I wanted to shower but the water kills them and they're not intelligent enough to avoid it all the time - so annoying.
So I was thinking about that because I was listening to music on my phone and watching videos and such and they're drawn to the light. Sometimes if I'm just in the dark with my phone they will come near or even land on the phone that happened once.
Then, I sat in bed with the light on and fell asleep by accident before remembering to turn it off because I was reading Pride and Prejudice fanfiction while lying in bed at that point. The light was on to avoid moth attacks.
I just find this combination of things very narritively amusing in light of what I'm talking about in this post.
Ended up having a conversation with my friend about various gaming stuff and then when I was searching on YouTube for something else I found this:
The woman saying 'No fucking way this is such a violent nation' as they zoom in on all the cars driving in the air.
I love stuff like this. I try to find/create similar vibes for some of my YouTube stuff too. I'm not going to post that here though obviously lol but I've had some entertaining times.
This is a very weirdcore glitch lol. The sky being on the ceiling, the dark hospital, and the floating cars in the distance feel like a dream. Love itbrainrotNo I'm spiritually gen z when it comes to this stuff. I've always loved this stuff too like back in the day with Glitch City and misingno in Pokemon games. It was before YouTube so I don't even really remember where I learnt about that back then but I did.Millenials finding about this in 2009: cool I guess
Zoomers finding about this in 2024: omg weirdcore backrooms vibe
It has the same vibes as this music:
It's on Yellow Hedgerow Dreamscape I think (yeah I mean it's in the video image lol,) which is a compilation album I don't own but as with many albums there are many versions of them so not sure if the track is on all of them but I haven't looked myself atm.This is the best song of PT, and I can find it only on Youtube...
Yellow Hedgerow Dreamscape is a compilation album by British progressive rock band Porcupine Tree (at that time a pseudonym for private solo projects by Steven Wilson but later a fully fledged band in its own right). It is a compilation of the band's initial three tapes, Tarquin's Seaweed Farm, Love, Death & Mussolini and The Nostalgia Factory. It consists of the rest of the music from the tapes that was not included in the band's first studio album On the Sunday of Life... and a previously unreleased track "An Empty Box".[1]
Yeah so I can see the dots connecting Throbbing Gristle and Porcupine Tree thinking about it lol. Coil was a spin off project by one of the members of Throbbing Gristle.
You know what's ironic about this post?
Steven's opinions about GTA. xD
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I didn't know about this painting but there's lots of people (conservatives,) freaking out about it which is how I learnt about it:Steven Wilson
I said before I liked it because butterflies have a lot of symbolic meaning well I actually said this (quote):
so that jumped out at me immediately without focussing on it too much (I still haven't really it was a sidenote for me in the video I was talking about before criticising 'modern art.')The Charles painting has a butterfly that resonates with symbolic patterns for me.
But there's a lot of discussion and also this BBC article:
I mostly don't pay attention to the royal family at all and try to avoid news etc about them but in this case it interests me because of the art angle.King Charles III's new official portrait: What the butterfly means
There's a more boring answer though from a 2006 post on a forum if you know about butterflies (which I don't.)
I do like their vampiric qualities.This is a picture of what I know from being a child as a King George Butterfly? Other people call it by the more common name of the Small Tortoishell Butterfly.
What I would like to know is, do any of you call it by it's species name or as I do King Goerge?
I was under the impression it was a local name given in the North West as most people who are not from round here call it by it's species name. It was only when i posted this question on Watercolour Home that I found out Steve also knew it by the name of King George as well, blowing my theory of the local name apart.
It's also funny that the guy in that video googled King George before Charles.
I also just realised it sort of resembles that cover of Yellow Hedgerow Dreamscape with the pink and the butterfly lol.
Hope this image stays because it's wikimedia...
More butterflies.
One of my favourite album covers (cuts off the top):
Butterflies are also really common obviously though just everywhere.
I've said this before but this was easily my favourite moment in a game ever. It was so unexpected and I was just in awe:
Yeah that's interesting too.I think you have the portrait of a monarch sort of blending in with the background as if he was in the process of disappearing in a way his uniform, his medals, his sword, they're all fading away. The only thing remaining is the man, his face and his hands.
That could also be an element of propaganda a focussing on the Human behind the title.
Now I'm posting my bs haha (it's purely a coincidence though I based this on a photo where someone had a butterfly headband and decided to keep that element even though they don't look anything like the original and the colours are very different obviously):
I have multiple paintings/drawings where people are sort of fading into backgrounds actually (digital and hand painted stuff.)
I'll have you know that this painting is ugly because I cannot draw or paint people well at all (never could.) Lack of skill. It's mostly not deeper than that. Although I do love horror and stuff as well (well I like weird/surreal/creepy stuff more than horror. Like I don't really watch horror films very often at all. I also like the idea of horror as a genre though.)
There's a lot of bad on purpose stuff now too though because it's relatable? Surreal Entertainment's art style which is like creepy, amateur and so on all at the same time (but he has other stuff that's better quality so it's a choice or he was less skilled at the time hard to say he makes videos less often now I think but also I'm not checking regularly I thought this universe was really zany with Sheldon, Kanye, JK Rowling, Harry Potter characters, Ben Shaprio etc that he was building before):
And he reacted to this video! Which makes it so much better. 8:28 into this video:
He's completely confused and I love his reaction. What makes his reaction better is that initially he thinks he's seen that video before then realises he hasn't and is like 'actually I don't think I've seen this one...' And then he's just weirded out lol.
I love the sound effects in the video though it really adds a lot.
Most people who have attempted to create visual art at some point will be able to relate to this or it will remind them of something they've tried and failed to create and so on. Not like geniuses lol probably, but like average people in the 1-4 scale of creative ability (people who have never tried won't get it at all though presumably.)
At some point in their life they will have also probably experienced the sensation of being criticised or repressed in a sense for their amateur ability or because they were supposed to be focussed on something else in class etc. You know one time in a maths lesson I was just daydreaming about making something out of coloured pencil shavings instead of paying attention, which I couldn't do in the class, and so I did it later and made a kind of tortoise or turtle on paper out of coloured pencil shavings. Getting yelled at for drawing instead of writing at a young age, getting told to stop messing about with a piano because I didn't know how to play (by a music teacher at a school I didn't go to. Yeah I just broke in 'she doesn't even go here' no lol my mum worked there me and my brother would end up there after school before we started secondary school and just walked home with our own key.) Things like that.
Even skilled people get this though:
"Your desert electricity pylon is too predictable."Definitely not a sell-out record (if you believe in that sort of thing), but the factory-based imagery shows them in the preparatory stage towards selling something. An interview with Aural Innovations (partially transcribed in Rich Wilson?s Time Flies: The Story of Porcupine Tree) had band leader Steven Wilson admitting that ?it?s completely at odds with the music?, but the manner at which they arrived at the cover came out of frustration he felt at times over the music industry and that many in the industry viewed what musicians created as product as opposed to art. Wilson had initially wanted a photo of an electricity pylon in the desert to be the cover, but management told him the idea was ?bland and cliched?.
They didn't think about me and my fixation on deserts and electricity pylons. Many years later I would have appreciated that cover.
Right now I want to create something with vending machines and cacti but I get hung up on the skill thing a lot and also my general lack of motivation/distractions. Maybe it also isn't that important to me dunno. The idea came into my head.
I think I realised some years ago that the ideas were more important to me then the end result. Especially if it wasn't going to look that great.
And art and music education is very bad (they don't really teach you techniques or necessary skills in most cases.) Perhaps there is also a steep learning curve though but I didn't feel like it was good in my school and I think that most people who learnt anything had outside lessons honestly or were self taught. Even at university level it wasn't good for that mostly, we even had a teacher come in later and comment on the lack of ability/weird teaching choices of our first year.
So for people who aren't geniuses you will find yourself especially in the education system kind of distracted constantly from anything creative. But that's old news. It all kind of feeds into that horror feeling though I think.
This is a forest dragon with butterfly wings I drew or fairy dragon. I tried to create it in 3D later and it looked terrible. (not that this is amazing either but really and sort of horrifying in that way bad 3D art looks which is why people are using this style now on purpose hahaha. Which I kind of love. It should get some use.) I used to write the word chaos in various places... It was very important to me symbolically I think before even Jordan came along. But I said that before.
I once also compared some guy's eye makeup in writing to butterfly wings (like his eyelids, and it's powdery in a similar way,) overly flowery language. Not a real person a fictional character in my writing. And there are probably a bunch of other examples I just can't think of right now.
"The flapping of the wings of a butterfly can be felt on the other side of the world." - some Chinese proverb I think.
Yeah it's interesting to me because of all these elements. Butterflies are kind of vampiric and you could view the background as being associated with blood though really it's a weirdly vibrant colour. I can see why conservatives and fans of tradition and the royal family wouldn't like it though. The aesthetics aren't necessarily... Something like this although they would have criticised that too at the time:I love how this painting genuinely holds a ton of symbolic meaning and purpose, but I can still look at it and predominately see a decaying man looming over me covered in and surrounded by blood. Probably the most honest portrait of the British monarchy we are ever likely to get with their approval.
Lol I picked one of the most purposefully edgiest paintings of that era and the model got sick after they were unable to heat the water one day while he was painting.
I would have assumed but wasn't 100% sure.The paintings of the PRB received quite the backlash for being "blasphemous" and too edgy, however, once the brotherhood was backed by the esteemed critic John Ruskin they began their climb to fame and acceptance
What do they like again? Cathedrals obviously.
I had some related plans in my early to mid 20s in 3D art. Like some kind of cybergothic, slightly creepy electronic cathedral type stuff. Merging computers with cathedrals and bones. Not super original (there is actually a bone church - Sedlec Ossuary) and in hindsight can even point to artists that probably influenced me but at the time I'd forgotton the names. Like HR Giger (one time while visiting the Tate Modern as I'd guess a teeenager - I know, of course they'd love this a modern art museum - I was looking in the book shop there and found a book about his work I think, think it was his work. It's a vague memory. I didn't buy it obviously I looked through it and it interested me for a moment.) In the end didn't really get that far with anything I was creating either. Skill issue mostly.
But the reason this speaks to me in the first place is as I said recently I spent a lot of time in Camden Town and the shop I posted about before Cyberdog had like this sort of creepy horror sci-fi vibes as well (moreso the original one I think even the location being this creepy underground tunnel network. The newer shop is cleaner I think,) but it had mainstream appeal by that point in the 2000s - with The Matrix, Ghost in the Shell - and it's all sort of coming from 1980s cyberpunk and sci-fi:Hans Ruedi Giger (/ˈɡiːɡər/ GHEE-gər; German: [ˈɡiːɡər]; 5 February 1940 ? 12 May 2014) was a Swiss artist best known for his airbrushed images that blended human physiques with machines, an art style known as "biomechanical". Giger later abandoned airbrush for pastels, markers and ink. He was part of the special effects team that won an Academy Award for the visual design of Ridley Scott's 1979 sci-fi horror film Alien, and was responsible for creating the titular Alien itself.[1] His work is on permanent display at the H.R. Giger Museum in Gruy?res, Switzerland. His style has been adapted to many forms of media, including album covers, furniture, tattoos and video games.
https://www.timeout.com/london/oral-...chno-goth-rave
There was a very particular vibe there which was interesting to experience. But some related feelings I'd get just in other areas of Camden, merch stores selling alternative stuff or horror stuff. Hellraiser like anything associated with that film series and so on.
I'm very fixated on originality which I know is dumb because everything keeps getting repeated and most ideas have already been done but it's hard to shake that honestly.
Of course that idea's not what they have in mind or what appeals about cathedrals either lol. They want something transcendental in a way that appeals to them personally.
When it comes to what they want and this is partly why I'm fixated on this I get, once again, very mixed messages. I was looking for this one webpage by Bruce G Charlton where there are a bunch of people discussing related topics but I found this just now and it will do (Edward Dutton also writes about related topics and co-wrote a book with him) some of these people are also fixated on IQ in particular. I also know that this below is not the exact complaint that a lot of conservatives make 'art is ugly,' 'I don't like modern art.' But it's still a reactionary sentiment:
https://voegelinview.com/what-consti...individualism/
What constitutes genius? Who is a genius? The Genius Famine, by Bruce Charlton and Edward Dutton, answered many burning questions that have arisen for me over the course of several decades that have importance for the notion of genius and what constitutes a genius and why we still need geniuses:
The populations of Japan and China score higher than almost all Western countries on psychometric tests, so why have there been so few "geniuses" produced by these countries? Is "genius" a Eurocentric concept?
As a corollary of that, why do the Chinese just copy American technology through reverse engineering and industrial espionage instead of creating their own? Yes, it is easier, but also derivative and destines them for second rate status.
Why would someone who came top of his class in English, second to the top when transferred to an ?lite private school, find the vocabulary of Charles Dickens fairly challenging as an eighteen-year-old? (Names for Victorian ladies? hats and kinds of wallpaper did not help.)
Why are there no genius physicists at all anymore; the kind that make real, meaningful contributions to basic theoretical physics? Our 'genius' physicists are now individuals with a lot of knowledge about physics but make no meaningful contributions to physics. We are still waiting for a grand unifying theory to reconcile quantum physics and relativity and a solution is nowhere in sight. In the first half of the twentieth century, we had unmistakable geniuses like Rutherford, Heisenberg, Schrodinger, Max Planck, and Einstein.
Where are the genius musicians, poets, philosophers, painters, and novelists? The 1990s saw the mishmash recycling of styles of post-modernism, with seemingly nowhere to go, as though music and literature had exhausted themselves. We had the nihilistic geniuses of Joyce, Picasso, and Schoenberg, in the early twentieth century, all of whom, Dutton suggests, were artistic dead ends. Academics could not have boosted atonal music anymore if they had tried, and it is effectively dead. Though it is true that the past can seem disconcertingly intimidating because there has been a lot of time to accumulate a list of worthy geniuses. But it has been seventy years from 1950 to 2021. Think of what the physicists did in a mere 40, from 1900 to 1940.
The late eighteenth and nineteenth century had Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Mahler, Liszt, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Wagner, Berlioz, Puccini, and Verdi. The twentieth century produced Stravinsky, Richard Strauss, and Schoenberg, and that's about it. And most people do not even like the last one.Looked after by monasteries yeah. A lot of people have an interesting and complex relationship with that.The answer to the first two questions is that the kind of genius that alters a culture and expands and enriches society and culture for evermore has been largely a product of Europe whether we like to admit it or not, though not in the way certain individuals and groups implicate and or in the manner that our so-called public intellectuals shriek in terror from when condemning the concept of the genius. The results of their genius, however, have created what we think of as the modern world, capable of supporting seven billion people, thanks to advances in roads, shipping, engines, planes, farming, medicine, fertilizers, and other technology. This generates a certain resentment from the beneficiaries, who it seems wish that it could have been they who produced these wonders. Geniuses need to have a high intelligence, of course, but they must also be endogenous - inner directed, creative, and intuitive. This is far more important and the defining characteristic of a genius and culture plays an undisputed role in shaping the inner directedness of individuals. Furthermore, they must have traits of psychopathy. They typically will ignore the usual quest for sex and social status - generally being celibate and almost never having children. They will instead dedicate themselves to a self-chosen obsession, approached using first principles, rather than reading other people extensively and applying the results of their research. They are antisocial, and do not care much about the thoughts, feelings, and opinions of others (low agreeableness). They are not conscientious and do not follow social norms and the expectations of others. The highly intelligent often lack common sense - so that popular trope of the absent-minded professor is true. In fact, they resemble idiot savants to a surprising degree.
Idiot savants have unusual abilities coupled with extreme deficiencies, though their talents are typically useless and they do not make major culture-altering contributions, unlike geniuses as they are defined here. They also need to be cared for by parental figures. It turns out that geniuses typically also need to be protected from the world and are frequently looked after by their families. Jane Austen, Emily Dickinson, Paul Dirac (almost never spoke), Wittgenstein (wouldn't eat with colleagues, socialize, or do administration, taught what he wanted and only the students he liked), Blaise Pascal, Gregor Mendel (the discoverer of genes), Thomas Aquinas, Alan Turing, Kurt Godel, Albert Einstein, Fyodor Dostoevsky (gambling addict and not very competent in life) in other words, half the authors of the books on an educated person's book shelf, were rather helpless and incapable and were looked after by their families, wives, for the very few that had one, and by monasteries that sheltered them. Einstein got lost near his home once and walked into a store and said "Hi. I'm Einstein. Could you help me find my way home please?" Godel depended on his wife and would only eat her cooking. He literally starved to death when she was hospitalized. Paul Erdos slept on the couches of mathematics professors and collaborated on articles with them. A book has been written about him called, The Man Who Loved Only Numbers. Theirs is not the fake creativity of originality as novelty. As Charlton/Dutton point out, Constable and Gainsborough are less original, but are better painters than Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon. (It is tempting to think that their famous last names helped their careers with the last two.)
Probably the appeal of Ethel Cain for some people:
https://hero-magazine.com/article/18...aptist-america[Verse 1]
These crosses all over my body
Remind me of who I used to be
And Christ forgive these bones I'm hiding
From no one successfully
[Verse 2]
Jesus can always reject his father
But he cannot escape his mother's blood
He'll scream and try to wash it off of his fingers
But he'll never escape what he's made up of
[Chorus]
The fates already fucked me sideways
Swinging by my neck from the family tree
He'll laugh and say, "You know I raised you bеtter than this"
Then leavе me hanging so they all can laugh at me
And I can sort of get this reading as well (it occured to me before I discovered her but it definitely didn't occur to me first.) I don't identify with Jesus it's easier for me to identify with Satanic figures (when it comes to that framework anyway,) but I get how people could and specifically for his outcast qualities I mean. The way he's portrayed too in art historically is interesting... I mean I make this joke too often but like. His fans not the biggest fan of his aesthetic in art in other people. Not a big fan of skinny white guys with long hair lol. He does have a beard though so there's some balance.CH: I saw you recently hung yourself from a cross, can you tell me about the idea behind the shoot?
EC: You see Jesus up on the cross every morning, and then when you think about what?s going on behind the scenes ? how many [BEEP] children are you crucifying to save your faith? How many of us are you putting up on that cross so you don?t have to go up there? Aside from the sick-ass imagery of hanging in a field in a white dress, that?s how it felt. You?re crucifying children to feel as close to God as you can get. If you wanna crucify me I?ll do it, I?ll get up on that fucking cross and hang there. I wanted it to be a raw image ? no snakes, no blood. Here I am, this is what you wanted, this is what you get.
And to my mind this comes from this idea in many cultures of using people as a conduit to speak to God. You see it in numerous cultures globally certain people are treated as go betweens for some deity or other. Often with certain personality and sexual traits too. And I think in some cultures more than others they have to walk a tightrope. An impossible tightrope if you will xD
Damn this is so annoying of me. The least I could probably do is just create a 3 hour video essay instead. It's just easier doing this.
The research here is mixed. I've seen research showing East Asians are less agreeable than Europeans actually. It's hard to argue that the art they're creating now is worse. Many would say it's better.High intelligence seems to develop in populations where farming is possible. Difficult climates, but not too difficult. The environmental aspect of intelligence is important, something hereditarians often ignore. But more than environment is the cult of creative individualism in the genius. East Asians come from an environment agreeable to agriculture and, as mentioned, are highly intelligent but are often too agreeable and conscientious to generate many geniuses unless they immigrate to more individualist societies. Traditional East Asian culture and society is extremely group focused, or collectivist. The amount of time and effort they put into "saving face" for others is quite exhausting. In Japan, workers are assigned a pod of other workers. If one person messes up, the rest are held responsible. They will typically only take half their vacation out of a feeling of responsibility for letting the group down, since they have to do their own work and part of their vacationing colleague's work too. The genius is not concerned with the group, although his talents end up serving the group in all sorts of ways, including helping them compete with other groups. This is why East Asian immigrants seem to flourish and become geniuses when living in Western societies where they are freed from group consensus and embrace creative individualism.
I know that idea doesn't fit the stereotype or the general collectivist/confucian sort of mindset people are familiar with but... That's what some personality research showed.
Well I mostly mean Japan when thinking about creative works people clearly rate Japanese works highly in the modern era. Studio Ghibli is definitely better than Disney as one example that's actually mainstream. Did it copy Disney? I dunno they started later and definitely collaborated over the years and had a complicated relationships lol... It's better I think, so who cares? (I mean some people will prefer Disney this is my opinion lol.)
I just really like this music track lol so posting it again.
There's a lot of interesting anime works in general, though I don't watch that much especially now. My understanding is that Miyazaki is not a fan lol or a fan of 'otaku.' Or antisocial nerds.
https://www.cbr.com/studio-ghibli-mi...ime-criticism/
The Miyazaki criticism that most fans are aware of is Hayao Miyazaki's issue with the creators of anime, which he says are essentially otakus. Miyazaki perceives otakus as people who don't observe real people. This is tied to the overall negative view that Japanese culture has of otakus.
To briefly step away from Miyazaki, the Japanese public does not shine a warm spotlight on those known as otakus. In 2014, a Japanese Corporation ran a survey revealing what a portion of Japanese citizens think about the word otaku the number one answer was "someone obsessed with his or her hobby." Reflecting this negative sentiment of the "Obsessed Nerd", Miyazaki's frustrations with anime stems from his viewpoint that anime and manga creators are obsessed not with creating depictions of people, but escaping from reality.
I saw a description of this video on a forum someone said:
This is a very antisocial urge btw. Perhaps due to what they've noticed a good amount of our work is either commenting on this, or an example of it:Media is filled with derivative slop and people who fervently defend such. Fundamental change needs to involve the consumer and unfortunately it's far from just otaku, or nerds in the west, fuelling the continued production of these things. As long as this continues to be misunderstood we will not see anything but continued decline.
The image above is taken from a video where Miyazaki met with some animators who wanted to make something "creepy". Miyazaki proceeded to cook them for making something with no intended use or defined purpose behind it. But the viewer whether through cable or subscription model will uncritically accept what is in front of them just as it was uncritically made by the artist.
But that's not the whole story ever (or rarely ever.) People also bond over shared emotional experiences and identify with horror and ugly characters and experiences.
Some people also find creepy stuff comforting at least some kinds. I get these comments like that sometimes and that's also my interest in liminal work because it's creepy, nostalgic, comforting, horrific and so on. But I would say my YouTube stuff combines different themes obviously. It's a part of most things I do though. The creepyness.
I actually think he's quite conservative and judgemental based on some quotes I've read (like his way of thinking,) I don't say this critically as I have respect for the fact that he's actually making art. And so his work should appeal to these people technically (except nothing ever does, and perhaps the messages aren't what they want still anyway.) Moreover unlike studio Ghibli (let's pretend it's a conservative project,) what are they creating in the West?
Off the top of my head lol:
I also am aware that in the video I linked Miyazaki's judgement in that video will also be effected by the fact that that's using Artificial Intelligence which is very new and most artists dislike it. I prefer to keep an open mind on that topic. Like I can see multiple points of view. I understand why people dislike it but I don't have strong opinions really on the technology itself at this point in time.
Also he's very emotionally impacted by the subject of war which is something I can relate to. That does pop up as a theme in a lot of his films too. This is funny if true because he failed:
https://www.cbr.com/studio-ghibli-wa...deep-messages/
Globally when people think of South Korea on the other hand the first thing that comes to mind now is kpop and I can't say it's a great source of creativity in it's current form but it's still very popular (which I don't think is something to dismiss entirely unless you're misanthropic,) and it's not less or more creative than Western pop music atm. There are other interesting Korean works and music besides that too like outside mainstream stuff.Howl's Moving Castle came out in 2004 and was written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki. Pacifism is a central theme in the film, as the story is set during a time when kingdoms are at war. While the main character, Sophie Hatter, is attempting to break a curse that transformed her into a 90-year-old woman, she is also caught up in a powerful wizard named Howl's life as he tries to avoid getting recruited for one side of the war. Instead, he takes every opportunity to fight both sides even though he's against the war altogether. Miyazaki has shown strong opposition to the Iraq war, which was his reason for creating this film. It was important to him to create a movie that wouldn't be well-received in the United States. However, even though the film has a clear anti-war stance, it still became a hit for the studio in the U.S. Miyazaki's anti-war stance has been established since his youth as he grew up witnessing the harshness of war in Japan during the 1940s.
China has some interesting films I don't really watch films that often (in general)... In general China seems to have numerous issues at this point (like obviously the greater censorship of the internet though it's censored to some extent everywhere + locking people up for 10 years for selling danmei comics and persecuting feminine men and this is just stuff I'm aware of because it's related to my own interests,) but that's a very complex topic especially historically that I'm not an expert on that's beyond what I was even doing with this post before I edited it 343223432 times.
No I don't think it's just that. Source: Me. It will take me a year or more to skimread a book out of order with ideas I find interesting. I'm just very slow, not very intelligent, and have trouble starting things often. Video essayists are obviously trying to bridge that gap somewhat.So, there are almost no geniuses due to active hostility to them, collectivist mentalities, indoctrination to conformity, and, of course, stagnating intelligence (by all empirical test measurements). Even very young people seem to realize that people are not as intelligent as other generations in the past. We have gone from farm laborers listening to five-hour complicated debates between politicians in the mid-nineteenth century America, to thirty second attack ads on TV in the recent past, to "students" with no interest in academic topics sitting in class fuming if they are not allowed to distract themselves online. Preliterate oral cultures were functional and focused on rote memorization and either learned what they needed to know, or died off. Literate cultures represented an enormous expansion of the human mind and liberated it from mere rote learning and permitted the possibility of critique. At certain points, it gave individuals access to the whole history of mostly Western thought to learn from. A post-literate "culture" may turn out to be an oxymoron. It has not gone through the trial by fire of oral cultures, and literate cultures. We blame functional illiteracy on "technology;" smartphone addiction and the like, but it might also be that dumb people are not as interested in abstract ideas.
Oh they brought him up cool because going back to this:The other factor is that modern culture actively selects against genius and is hostile to it. The antisocial Wittgenstein who refused to do administrative work, and would only teach what he wanted to, would simply be fired. In fact, he would never have been hired in the first place.
Yes and no. If you look at excerpts from his diary he discussed masturbating while thinking about mathematics problems (couldn't be me lol.) I really think the only major difference is the intelligence. Like most of these people seem to have a certain personality complex that most people hate but then they also happen to be intelligent and manage to find a way to be productive instead of what I'm doing now lmao.They typically will ignore the usual quest for sex and social status - generally being celibate and almost never having children.
Apparently he might have been attracted to men too. I don't know this man lol. I'm a degenerate and enjoy hearing about people's idiosyncratic fetishes (that's also why I stalk Aella's work/twitter page though there are so many she doesn't ask about or include in her research..) So I was intrigued by the idea that he might be sexually aroused by maths. Though of course in reality he was probably just doing both simultaneously which to me is less interesting.Although Wittgenstein was involved in a relationship with Marguerite Respinger (a young Swiss woman he had met as a friend of the family), his plans to marry her were broken off in 1931, and he never married. Most of his romantic attachments were to young men.
Obviously the idea of someone else masturbating about maths could work for me because I'm into nerds as an archetype, but it wouldn't be my favourite theme of all time. It could fit in somewhere though.
It's not that I think people should be catering to reactionaries either I'm just confused lol. Like I'm confused about straight women who watch lesbian porn etc.
What do you want? What is going on?
So what appears to contradict for me is this. A lot of people with viewpoints like this admit that people have to be antisocial but then people like Jordan Peterson devote a lot of time to complaining about psychopathy and antisocial behaviour in their political opponents. They say the point is not to listen to other people and just focus on your obsession, but criticise the people doing this. Actually tbh everyone criticises obsession it's the number one thing people criticise.
It's particuarly bad with people who are obsessed with gender and sexuality as topics but the contempt for obsession is everywhere. That's why nerds/otaku etc are looked down on.
Yeah OK maybe these aren't all the same people criticising stuff but culturally, politically and ideologically and in other ways they seem to be mostly the same population.
Edit again: Regarding my reading of Miyazaki as conservative (because people describe him as anti-capitalist etc, may not be true though and this is not a typical understanding of conservative for some people,) progressives will often criticise stuff for ethical reasons in the manner he does in this video: 'this is an insult to life because of my disabled friend.' They interpret things in similar ways. A lot of conservatism is centred around Christianity - in theory - and a lot of progressivism seems to be drawing from Christian ideals such as defending the weak etc this has been talked about by many different thinkers mostly on the right. Bible quote supposedly:
Defend the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.
But it seems slightly different from the hierarchical based complaints that most of the 'right wing' in the West and modern conservatives have about art, music etc. You can see how the two could blur together though or even overlap. One is coming from a place of empathy, the other from this pursuit of perfection.
The common Western complaints I see (against modern art for example,) centre around the idea of beauty and some kind of transcendental ideal that's not being achieved. When it comes to art. Obviously this complaining gets broader in scope sometimes like 'where are the geniuses in physics?'
Some writers like Edward Dutton have had certain friends or aquaintances. He wrote about the weeks he spent in some witch house with lesbian witches while he was at uni, before he moved in with some Christians one who he thought was attractive before they later came out as a trans guy maybe? Wasn't clear. And his friend who he lost contact with and believes was autistic and came out as a trans woman (he was clear about this so it's not just vague because transphobia,) and was unfortunately killed. He expressed multiple times that he was attracted to his friend but kept forgetting who she was post transistion. Like he'd see her around, was attracted, then remembered. I was reading three (?) of his books at the same time. Maybe two. So these anecdotes were mentioned in different books I think. Also the trans woman friend had an interest in philosophy and was studying it I think, I won't go into all the details but I'm quite angry about what happened to her.
I find it again incredibly hard to follow (the complaints and such in his writing,) because there appear to be so many contradictions and he never posts about any art, music etc online. I've seen him mention a handful of like musicians and artists with very narrow focus all from centuries ago.
Many of these writers/thinkers dislike anything from recent centuries but some are more open than others.
So Edward Dutton puts it like this but usually this gets expressed in more basic terms like 'it's ugly/demonic':
They also spend a lot of time complaining about how 'woke' people are antisocial and have various antisocial personality traits - all of these thinkers have taken to doing this. According to research. I think this research actually only describes some segments of the left btw but some will project that onto everyone, but I also think most people are antisocial to some degree especially creative personality types just cause I mean look around.Modern society has indeed become more and more 'evil' - which is to say (providing here a brief definition of evil) organized in pursuit of destruction of The Good in the traditional sense of the word - the Good being (roughly) the transcendental values of Truth, Beauty and Virtue, underpinned by a sense of unity and the eternal."
And so this is the big contradiction I just can't figure out. Maybe they all just changed their mind lol. I don't think they understand what antisocial means or psychopathy anyway or at least they don't seem to want that at all.
Again most people aren't just one thing. (Probably explains the contradictions I notice here as well lol...)
But antisocial personality traits have seemingly nothing to do with what they're hoping to achieve? They're not designed to give people hope, to encourage them towards procreation and other things I see people want art to do. It's stuff like sadism and the entertainment people get from these impulses.
There is a kind of sentiment that some people have about finding beauty in darkness, and relating to dark stuff and using that as a way to connect with others or to feel some sense of connection and not everyone finds that relatable. And this can also overlap with sadistic urges ime but probably is different:
"That made me so happy and I don't know why."
There's also you know a general interest in psychology that people have.
He's said he lies in interviews a bunch in his autobiography. I haven't finished that book yet though he did go into his family's dark background a bit (they're not killers or anything just it's a dark background.) He also said this in one interview:
https://www.loudersound.com/features...-steven-wilson
Look at the world, not at your phone. Make music for the love of it, not as a career. Serial killers are fascinating. The best is yet to come. These are among the things that shape Steven Wilson's world viewNostalgia is comforting, especially as you get older
I've found as I've gotten older I've become very nostalgic for surrounding myself with the things from my childhood. So the other day I bought a Mary Mungo & Midge album. It was a BBC children's programme, probably from the late seventies [1969], and somebody posted a picture of the album on Instagram, and I decided I had to have it!
And the other day I bought myself a photo-print for the studio of The Avengers - Dianna Rigg and Patrick Macnee. It's comforting to buy things that remind you of your own childhood. So I buy a lot of crap.Personally I have mixed feelings where I don't like true crime documentaries. My mum watches them all the time and I just can't. I find the broader topic interesting and sometimes read about them because I like psychology, but that can get bleak sometimes too. But I like surreal horror, creepy stuff, dark fantasy. One of my favourite films is American Psycho. Other stuff I've mentioned in this post. It's also sometimes nostalgic lol.Serial killers are fascinating because they're part of the human race
The first time I heard music that actually made me physically sick, in a good way, was Throbbing Gristle's Second Annual Report. I was about fifteen years old. The first song on that record is Slug Bait, and it's a really sick, lo-fi electronic noise piece, with Genesis P-Orridge intoning over the top a story about a [...] It was the beginning of serial killer chic. I grew up in a house where my mum had a lot of books about serial killers, so I was already a little bit influenced by her in my interest in that world.
[CR: Do you enjoy that feeling of being unsettled by art?]
I really do. Or at least I really did. I don't like the torture-porn films; that movie A Serbian Film, I can't say I enjoyed it. I like the idea of true horror, but only if it's in relation to a great idea, if it has something to say about the human condition. And of course the thing about serial killers, it is horrible but it's also part of our society. They are people that have malfunctioned for whatever reason. I find that fascinating because of what it says about the human race in general, what it says about childhood and upbringing.
He sometimes seems to be trying to convince people he's safe, and that he's not a miserable and cynical person and so on (was doing that a bit in the book in the beginning.) I think this partly comes from an instinctive fear a lot of creative and/or neurodivergent people have that they will be eg: burnt alive or something if they come across as too antisocial or weird or dark etc.
And that band he mentioned were incredibly infamous in their own right especially the lead singer. Probably not a perfect person but I doubt all the accusations were true as there's no evidence and there very much was criminal evidence for several other famous British people.
Also it's just annoying to be pigeon hole'd especially into one emotion obviously.
But while reading his autobiography I thought about Edward Dutton's writing. It's ironic because Edward's... I mean if you've come across him you'll get what I'm saying (he's even owned cats,) but he's sort of in a sense written a series of things (books, tweets, other stuff,) about 'how to find witches.' He's very insistent on this term even to the point of alientating some people because a lot of people switched to using the term witch hunt for just cancel culture but he's insistent on keeping it to a set of phenotypic traits and he talks about dysgenics and so on, and various traits that cluster together genetically and in families. Of course anecdotally I can think of many examples (my own included,) and assuming he's not lying again (heh) Steven Wilson sort of fits the profile described too.
No witches aren't real. Just the idea of them persists.
So conservatives (or whoever I think I've made it clear by now that labels don't exactly work well,) will often argue:
"we need more classicial music and classic art. No stop focussing on this theme this is wrong.... Nothing good has been created for hundreds of years."
Anyway my take is, if we're not intelligent enough there's not much that can be done so whatever. I mean what are you even hoping to achieve here? You don't seem to know where to find the people you're looking for or really how to encourage them. You just complain they don't exist.
Also plenty of people are happy with things that have been created in the last couple of hundred years I know I am. I guess it's because I'm not a genius xD (of course I'm not, but like do they think they are? That's why they can't find anything they enjoy?)
Me:
Nevermind women what the [BEEP] do right wing mostly men want?
Imagine being this 'hypergamous' lol they have the highest standards of all.
I guess this is more their issue with women not reproducing. I like how antisocial tendencies are just connected to everything besides being average lol (supposedly):World War I further culled the smart people. Officers led from the front and were from the upper classes, the best and brightest, leaving a generation of women who refused to marry down, in the usual hypergamous manner, to live out their lives as spinsters.
It's like this:High intelligence and education are inversely correlated with having children, especially with women. So, the modern tendency to spend years in higher education well into the twenties, contributes to infertility among the smart. [..] And criminality is associated with low intelligence, and poor character (high impulsivity, antisocial tendencies, etc.) During Medieval Europe, the poor died in childhood in huge numbers, the rich and successful survived, and through this dynamic and learning intelligence slowly increased. We then became a victim of our own success, stopping this rather brutal natural selection in favor of the smart, and the poor and less mentally and physically healthy had more babies than the obverse. This ramps up the mutational load with dysgenic effect.
#yesallgamers
Well good news for you (if that's even true,) for several decades now they've been recruiting the working class and now gamers and people who use social media. (I'm not joking in the UK they have ad campaigns targeted at gamers and people who are addicted to social media etc.) I'm pretty stupid but not so stupid to have not noticed lol.
The Charles painting is quite monochromatic though. You feel almost assaulted I think. It's sort of merging high and low culture art in a sense and also ability. Like it's obvious they can paint in a hyper realistic way in the painting, but there's also that weird use of colour and everything. That's just my interpretation.
This seems related to the overarching discussion too:
Most people are both these characters at some point or other. But at the extremes some people lean more one way or another.
And if they picked apart the symbolism it could be interpreted critically. But seeing as this sort of thing is subjective they could come up with a different story if they wanted.