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Originally Posted by Skaligojurah
I don't know, I think this is a bit extreme. It's an interesting Red Dawn like theory but seems to be thinking a little too outside the realistic scope.
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I would analyze the whole thing, but that 'realist' comment really gets to me.
The reality of history is that it is a series of the same things happening over and over and over... Different names, different places, different times, but the same story. Anybody who has taken the time to grasp the history of the arts would know that. Actually, any basic historical knowledge would suffice. Wars are usually won/lost for the same reasons. Revolutionaries are killed off, some are intelligent enough to live (usually for the exact same reasons). To quote Mark Twain:
"History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme."
For anyone who TRULY thinks we've done anything differently than the same people who ****ed up and had the arts drowned out 2,000 years ago, you might want to analyze it from a purely historical perspective. Nobody has fixed' anything; kitsch still controls virtually everything. Thousands of years ago there were critics who thought outside of the box. Those people were the 'underground' powerhouses who the masses came to adore for telling the truth. They were eventually suppressed, and everybody re-assimilated.
Just because I'm writing 'a lot', doesn't mean I'm reading too much into this. It's purely logic. Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it.