With the rise of cancel culture, it’s something that’s got me curious, why are so many works (music, literature, tv shows, etc.) no longer separated from their controversial makers? Is it purely to do with money (e.g. not wanting to give money to people you don’t agree with?) and what about controversial people who are dead? They don’t gain anything, so why isn’t the art separated from the artist? What’s your opinion on this topic?
Are you talking in terms of a legal/political definition of cancel culture I presume, because I wasn’t.
yea, this combined with “Oh don’t start…” further down the thread, I’m all set. you’ve got that “just asking questions here!” vibe that got old like fifteen years ago.
That’s because I didn’t want people to bring politics into this, because the post wasn’t about politics. I’d appreciate it if people could stop behaving like the media and trying to turn everything about politics. That is all. Thank you.
Everything is about politics.
Bullshit. There was a time in history when there was no politics (modern, etc.) and human being survived (arguably they even thrived). People try to twist anything into politics now, it doesn’t mean it has to be, if even it were possible, but not so
What do you think politics is, exactly, that it can be so easily excised from… history, or whatever it is that humans do?
I don’t think there’s any point in human history that doesn’t have politics deeply ingrained. I don’t even think history as a concept can exist without politics. Someone has to decide what to write down.
Well, are we born with politics?
Of course we are. As Billy J put it: we didn’t start the fire, it was always burning since the world’s been turning.
“Cancel culture” is not able to be parted from politics.
Depends on the definition. I’m not talking about a political definition, more the raw human emotion of rejecting something for whatever reason they don’t like it — not because it fits into some political ‘theology’
That’s politics.
That’s a remarkably succinct definition of politics.
That’s what we call politics, but was not always so. Again, just because we define politics in a modern sense, doesn’t make it always was