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Art is not a commodity

submitted by MINK

1 decade 7 years 5 months 2 weeks ago

Politics

OK boring voiceover style but this is exactly why music and art are completely messed up by big companies who don't understand the difference between art and a commodity. They sell CDs, artists make music. Big difference.

4 Comments

antimatter

says...

Thank you.

MINK

says...

no problem. i would shake your hand, but that would result in annihilation. i'll just salute you instead if that's ok.

jwray

says...

It's pretty obvious and more general than that. There's often a tradeoff between producing the best work and producing the most financially successful work. TV stations dumb down their programming to reach a larger audience. Cereal companies spend more money on package graphics and advertising than they spend on their actual product. Distributors of digital media use DRM that makes their product far less useful. The best writers, musicians, and artists produce whatever they want to produce without mitigation by finances or popular opinion. Most great thinkers in history were hated by many of their contemporaries, from Socrates to Dawkins.

Art rarely had much use value anyway because paintings cannot express ideas as well as words. The voiceover narrator is spouting a lot of Marxist Newspeak bullshit, but the other guy is interesting.