archive link: https://archive.ph/ONKkm
contextualizes the topic beautifully. you might learn a lot about how american racism relates to capital and art from this article
highlight: most of these guys are into classical art fascism but one of them, a bitcoin guy looking to build a 450 foot tall statue of prometheus, appears to be specifically into italian fascism. his favorite aesthetic is futurism and he hired a futurist sculptor with this "manifesto" on his website:
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captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 306d
Listen I love me a giant statue, surely we can find a common ground. The right wants giant statues to be of rich white men, I say Kropotkin it is.
bitofhope@awful.systems · 10 pts · 306d
We need to fight capitalism with giant mechs modeled after wealthy white leftist intellectuals. Here's my proposal for project Friedrich Evangelsion Unit-00
swlabr@awful.systems · 9 pts · 306d
Anno was cooking when he predicted that the tech elite (seele) would try to melt down all of humanity into amorphous data (orange tang) and control the “superintelligence” singularity (third impact)
bitofhope@awful.systems · 7 pts · 305d
What he got wrong is that the emotionally stunted boss man in charge of executing the plans of the shadowy elite conspiracy was a grieving widowed wife guy and not just the most divorced man in the world.
sc_griffith@awful.systems · 5 pts · 305d
https://youtu.be/5X9RUOEOoNQ
swlabr@awful.systems · 8 pts · 305d
::: spoiler meme text Meme template is the scene from the tv show "The Good Place", where Michael is expressing disbelief about someone notably stupid figuring something out.
Michael: "Alex Jones figured it out? Alex Jones? This is a real low point. Yeah, this one hurts." :::
jaschop@awful.systems · 11 pts · 306d
Doesn't matter if any of those projects come through. The aesthetic of the current US ruling clique is gilded toilet bowls and AI-generated poop videos, and always will be.
swlabr@awful.systems · 11 pts · 305d
Tech bros: putting the “meth” in “prometheus”
Soyweiser@awful.systems · 3 pts · 305d
Shit, it is going to be really hard for me going forward to not intentionally mispronounce that.
etherphon@piefed.world · 9 pts · 305d
sc_griffith@awful.systems · 10 pts · 305d
if you're familiar with the history of fascism, he might as well have just written "ART SHOULD BE FASCIST" over and over. for example, one of the tenets of fascism is the 'cult of action for action's sake,' which you can see stamped all over this. and in the fascist conception, all institutions, including the art world, exist ultimately to preserve and extend their favored cultural values like vitality, creation, masculine strength, rejection of the outgroup, and identification with the nation
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com · 7 pts · 306d
as an aside: In Seattle, theft of bronze art is rising. Why? And who is impacted?
etherphon@piefed.world · 3 pts · 305d