This question just popped into my head and I have no idea what it means. Please, discuss.
today i watched a samurai movie called Taboo about this new recruit who destroys the stability in his militia by being a semen demon. Very captivating even if its mostly just old guys sitting around going "why the fuck are there so many gay guys in our samurai dojo? (okay he didnt say that) we have to do something, or everybody will kill each other over this twink". I have never seen anything like it: the vibe is tense even though its not a thriller, it has hilarious scenes randomly sprinkled in, the plot revolves around one guy but hes not treated like the main character, and other weird shit.
oh, you were asking about if art should inspire rebellion. i rather watch a cool movie than a piece of propaganda even for a good cause, art can't inspire rebellion anyway.
Depends what should means. As in , should we be making art that inspires rebellion? then the answer is: only art that inspires socialist rebellion. If the question is: should something only be considered art if it inspires rebellion, then the answer is no.
All art is created from old art, remixed and contextualized. So art should inspire rebellion in the sense that whatever style/paradigm it has created should inspire the next generation of artists to rebel against it by creating new styles.
True, art inherently inspires creativity while the legal construct of property suppresses it.
I am borrowing the phrasing from the op title though.
I'm reminded of a recent experience I had in reading about Crunchyroll's recent attempts at Western anime, both partially because discussing anime always inevitably angers me and because I was jealous someone else got to make one before me. Anyway, there was this rather vicious discussion on whether High Guardian Spice counts as a diverse show. Someone accused it of lacking diversity, because having 3 white women is no longer diverse -- in fact, it's emblematic of one's privilege to say that, argued another. This person was subsequently accused of misgendering Raye Rodriguez, one of the showrunners, who is actually a transgender man.
But, does this out-rank the non-binary Rebecca Sugar's Steven Universe? Is it right for a westerner to make anime, and is a show run by 2 white women and 1 transgender man truly diverse in comparison to homemade shoujo anime? Then again, wasn't the classic Sailor Moon also really run by a man, and not the female animators all upon its staff? How can they market themselves with diversity if they are not actually diverse? Is this a betrayal of social justice, or revolutionary principles? These questions abounded in the sphere I was reading, and it became very heated, very very heated.
Being an artist, I just thought: Damn, well, is the show any good?
