The Politics of Freedom
November 1st 2006 02:24
Albert Camus says:
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
I say:
It's interesting to contemplate Shanghainese architecture, which is highly creative, but is often designed by massive amounts of plagiarism and lack of respect of individual designer's contributions. Art is a state of mind, but I agree that it's mostly as it's most insightful when the product of a liberal democratic pov. Then again, restrictions are a state of mind - stubborn pockets of freedom emerge under different forms of repression, which cannot be created by democratic environments... the two ideally inform each other.
You say:
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
I say:
It's interesting to contemplate Shanghainese architecture, which is highly creative, but is often designed by massive amounts of plagiarism and lack of respect of individual designer's contributions. Art is a state of mind, but I agree that it's mostly as it's most insightful when the product of a liberal democratic pov. Then again, restrictions are a state of mind - stubborn pockets of freedom emerge under different forms of repression, which cannot be created by democratic environments... the two ideally inform each other.
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