We can just do stuff. Make. Build. Create. We dont need permission. John Donne wrote some of the greatest poetry ever written. He only read it aloud to other poets. Never tried to publish. 400 years later i was taught him at Yale. The Bronte sisters wrote like 500,000 words for each other before they tried to publish.
Create artists collectives. Then we can just do stuff
I scored 85% in trait openness, but also 80% in trait orderliness. Fascinatingly, I usually classify myself politically as a centrist, in those issues that have not been clearly defined by the Church.
Surprises: Middle on agreeableness but cautious about trusting others
Land in middle on conscientiousness but take promises and rules seriously
Land in middle on openness but enjoy abstract ideas and puzzling things out
I score similarly on the Myers-Briggs
As far as conservatism, this has little to do with culture but I think what it needs is to stop trying to get rid of Social Security and Medicare and it should believe in hiring the best person for the job who is already living in the US, not the best person who is currently living in China or India.
There's something to this and I agree with your point. Not sure I love the "culturally-relevant" term though. As long as the Left controls the cultural levers of power, I'm not sure the Right will ever be "culturally-relevant," or if we should even want to be. I agree it is frustrating to see the usual suspects on the Right dismiss any and all art from the Left out of hand and refuse to engage with it at all. All that said, I think we are seeing a real movement on the right to create beautiful art (in all areas) that appeals to most people, regardless of how culturally relevant the zeitgeist says it is. Lots of examples of this from all the stuff Pageau is doing to some recent "Right" coded and/or "Christian" films that have been extremely well done.
I think we can't allow ourselves to think of culture as "the current state of things that have cultural affiliation." Culture is ground that can be ceded or won.
But the reactionary nature of the right creates two critical errors, in my opinion:
1. Refusing to see the good in something that is tainted by dominant ideologies that we disagree with and therefore creating an inability to engage with it on its own merits.
2. Thinking that creating culture that's "ours" means making preachy garbage that fails to understand Newman's point about (and I'm paraphrasing from memory) that it would be foolish to attempt a sinless literature about sinful man.
Since I was in my 20s I found myself wrestling with the tension between my creative sensibilities and the felt obligation to filter everything through the lens of my beliefs and morals. And I think many of us suffer similarly. Good art reflects what is real, what is true, even when that truth is ugly. Even when it points to where we go wrong.
I think it's a worthwhile endeavor to understand the human condition, even when it's way off the rails.
The only art I hate is the kind that is inherently nihilistic or antagonistic of goodness. Outside of that, I give a wide latitude.
100%! I think Bishop Barron does a good job of what you describe. He's never afraid to engage with art (particularly movies) regardless of how "unchristian" they may be from a moral standpoint.
We can just do stuff. Make. Build. Create. We dont need permission. John Donne wrote some of the greatest poetry ever written. He only read it aloud to other poets. Never tried to publish. 400 years later i was taught him at Yale. The Bronte sisters wrote like 500,000 words for each other before they tried to publish.
Create artists collectives. Then we can just do stuff
I scored 85% in trait openness, but also 80% in trait orderliness. Fascinatingly, I usually classify myself politically as a centrist, in those issues that have not been clearly defined by the Church.
I never heard of the Big Five other than for African animals. I found a free Big Five online test. And here are some of my results.
O Openness to Experience 54%
C Conscientiousness (is that the hardest word in the Eng. language to spell?) 46%
E Extraversion 10%
A Agreeableness 62%
N Neuroticism 83%
Summary: RLUAI Reserved, Emotionally reactive, Less structured (near midpoint), Accomodating, Inquisitive (near midpoint)
Surprises: Middle on agreeableness but cautious about trusting others
Land in middle on conscientiousness but take promises and rules seriously
Land in middle on openness but enjoy abstract ideas and puzzling things out
I score similarly on the Myers-Briggs
As far as conservatism, this has little to do with culture but I think what it needs is to stop trying to get rid of Social Security and Medicare and it should believe in hiring the best person for the job who is already living in the US, not the best person who is currently living in China or India.
There's something to this and I agree with your point. Not sure I love the "culturally-relevant" term though. As long as the Left controls the cultural levers of power, I'm not sure the Right will ever be "culturally-relevant," or if we should even want to be. I agree it is frustrating to see the usual suspects on the Right dismiss any and all art from the Left out of hand and refuse to engage with it at all. All that said, I think we are seeing a real movement on the right to create beautiful art (in all areas) that appeals to most people, regardless of how culturally relevant the zeitgeist says it is. Lots of examples of this from all the stuff Pageau is doing to some recent "Right" coded and/or "Christian" films that have been extremely well done.
I think we can't allow ourselves to think of culture as "the current state of things that have cultural affiliation." Culture is ground that can be ceded or won.
But the reactionary nature of the right creates two critical errors, in my opinion:
1. Refusing to see the good in something that is tainted by dominant ideologies that we disagree with and therefore creating an inability to engage with it on its own merits.
2. Thinking that creating culture that's "ours" means making preachy garbage that fails to understand Newman's point about (and I'm paraphrasing from memory) that it would be foolish to attempt a sinless literature about sinful man.
Since I was in my 20s I found myself wrestling with the tension between my creative sensibilities and the felt obligation to filter everything through the lens of my beliefs and morals. And I think many of us suffer similarly. Good art reflects what is real, what is true, even when that truth is ugly. Even when it points to where we go wrong.
I think it's a worthwhile endeavor to understand the human condition, even when it's way off the rails.
The only art I hate is the kind that is inherently nihilistic or antagonistic of goodness. Outside of that, I give a wide latitude.
100%! I think Bishop Barron does a good job of what you describe. He's never afraid to engage with art (particularly movies) regardless of how "unchristian" they may be from a moral standpoint.