Art and Capitalism

Sharing your art is sharing your truth. Capitalism has taken our desire to express and create and bended to its own will. It says your self expression doesn't matter if it's not generating private jets for the "Private Plane Class".

An alignment with the "Private Plane Class" is an alignment with the erasure of disabled people, climate change denialism, an investment in Beauty, an investment into child slavery via blood diamonds and other minerals, an investment into human trafficking for cheap garment workers or low wage fruit pickers.

The Private Plane class has welded artistic expression for its own gains. And in exchange for protecting the image of the sheer violence and brutality of white supremacy/capitalism they promise protection, rewards of fame, resources and power.

Ambitious artists tell themselves "If we create art that glorifies the human trafficking fashion industry or helps sell diamonds that have been extracted by abused children, if we can get everyone excited about super spreader events and protect the investment others have in commercial property, we'll have fame, and a portfolio others will envy because of our ability to tell stories, not because we conformed to a violent dangerous white supremacist master narrative."

The Private Plane class has welded artistic expression for its own gains. And in exchange for protecting the image of the sheer violence and brutality of white supremacy/capitalism they promise protection, rewards of fame, resources and power.

The Private Plane class says "Never as much as us 1%ers we have no intention of allowing even a quarter of our wealth to be shared to the next 25%."

The Private Plane class says:

"You have plenty with that quarter versus my $1000, use that to stir the economy with your stories. Cheers babe. Doing good work. Those poor people are the worst so beggy right? Please depict them as the deplorable losers they are. Also the black people are the worst. And never forget the queers and the women also disabled people also fat people also indigenous people you know basically make sure your stories depict Straight cis-het white upper class university educated as brilliant, brilliant people that have family connections and links with the authoritarian state, perhaps throw in the military or police any modern day colonisers and agents of the state. Your stories need European men or men from English speaking counties particularly but also make a link to ancient Rome and Greece and like tell stories about how they are like amazing human beings. So complex so pinnacle of civilization so courageous so brave so amazeballs"

Artists have also been exploited by the Private Plane Class and yet still aspire to join them and exploit others.

Its so interessante to me that artists that have done copaganda, played up European achievements, contributed to sexist and ableist views are now speaking the truth as the gravy train has run dry for them too.

Written by Love, Builder of Worlds and edited by Katlego.

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