Comment by tpurves
14 days ago
Literally the best possible kind of psy-op. Same with translating Sesame Street and distributing it to 100s of countries. Same with countries like Thailand exporting Thai food. It's a psy op based on what if we took nice things from our country and subsidized distributing them to the rest of the world, our country would grow in prestige and soft power. And these strategies are usually pretty effective, not to mention usually net-positive for all sides ... compared with so many other horibble harms US and other countries foreign offices have done around the world out of self interest.
Modern art sucks, and displaced art that is beautiful. Huge net loss for humanity.
"… displaced art that is beautiful."
Photography did that.
I didn't used to like pop-art, op-art, etc. I do now.
I suspect most things new take a while to sink in.
Modern art is older than me.
All art requires growth and change. Artists can't go on doing the same things forever. Will they take a turn into some dead end...sure. Maybe even for centuries. But remaining static is certain death.
Idk I think it's kind of neat
Personally, I'd take "beautiful" over "kind of neat" any day
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dude take one single art history class... (well, maybe 2 since the first one is going to give you the venus of willendorf and ionic/doric columns...) this is nonsense.
If you need a class to tell you what’s enjoyable to look at and what isn’t, then it’s not a class it’s brainwashing to suppress your natural instincts.
The only reason the CIA did it in secret is that congress _hated_ modern art and killed State Department projects supporting it. The soviets and every other government also promoted their own artists abroad extensively. Not everything the CIA did was a psy-op, sometimes it was a convenient way for the executive branch to do something that congress didn't want to pay for.
I wish those actions made the folks doing that "better" instead of implicating beautiful parts of my childhood in their vicious attempts to keep the entire world under their thumb...
The obvious problem is that when the same group is committing vicious crimes and horrors, it's very hard to look at about anything they do and be like... well, at least folks were getting laid during Midnight Climax.
"Oh, hey, that's cute: the vicious monsters who torture people to death in a global network of black sites are manipulating us again by exporting pleasant videos of puppets teaching children".
what do mean with the example of thailand and thai food, and why is that a psy-op? Every country tries to subsidize and dump excess production of stuff they produce
https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-surprising-reason-that-t...
not just Thai, the Japanese, Koreans, even Ethiopia (sometimes) tries food based influence measures
wow, did'nt know. but thats brilliant!
however, i did wonder at the decor at my local thai restaurants and they were definitely using some ethnic pieces, and now I realize...
They invented what is called "Thai food" for the export market, to bring in tourists.
> what if we took nice things from our country and subsidized distributing them to the rest of the world
Or the appearance of nice things. Consider the suburb as promoted by American film which has left a very deep mark on the global imagination and that, regrettably, maintains a strong influence over housing markets and urban planning to this day.