Thursday, 26 April 2012

The Question of Art and Freedom

Freedom has always been in very scarce quantity on our earth . And the chief enemy of freedom is fear .The fear to grope in the dark makes sure you keep put in your little dungeon .And society as a whole fears more than any individual to grope in the dark. Indeed if you see, freedom is the chief casuality of civilisation . The more civilized the society the more rules and ettiquetes of the way you can eat and the way you can cook and the way you can have sex and with whom you can have it with . Society makes sure that everyone walks the same walk everyone talks the same talk . Indeed every little thing from marriage to school from job to sipping tea in a cafe compromises your freedom to ensure the society that it does not need to grope in the dark . The fear of darkness is all pervasive .
Its always a requirement in art to strip down the subject .Sometimes literally sometimes more than literally . The conspiracy of the society is to coverup. Indeed civilization is constantly in need of coverup to make sure the natural instincts of people do not take over . All kinds of skills and requirents masquendering as ettiquetes are just an iron veil put over the natural instincts of people . And i am talking about the more free parts of the world and not just those still dwelling in medivieal times.
There is no use of debating art in those world where it is rightly called blasphemy and heresy cause Art even in a very limited sense is capable of challenging the existing order . the defenders of status quo of 1500 years and maybe a a thousand more can just turn the debate upside down . Art is nothing but debate and debate in such archaic order is the enemy of the existing  . Art has no wonder received a deathblow in such a world .
Let us understand that it is much more difficult to punish a poet or a novelist or a painter than it is to get hold of a jounalists neck in any dictatorship or religious order . An artist can render multiple explanations to escape the law. And yet an artist will be more popular and more potent than any of regimes opponents . And moreover slowly but surely an artist is more capable of challenging the idiological foundations of any regime than say another hard hitting reasonable opponent is .
And in what is referred to as free world is not free cause it allowed art and debate. The free world is relatively free cause new art was really able to challenge and win against the existing culture . New Art was able to defeat the old art .And as long as new art is able to defeat old art , and as long as new manners are able to attack and defeat old manners and as long as each individuals style , manner and behaviour is accepted as just another artistic way of life instead of being ridiculed , freedom shall survive atleast in a limited sense .

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