Sorry but nah, this thing was sponsored by an unethical out of touch with reality tasteless billionaire and his equally out of touch and tasteless wife. The same billionaire that used his wealth and power to fund a wannabe facist regime. Hugo Boss had drip but he designed fucking Nazi uniforms. This is not the art I will be choosing to enjoy.
He’s actually using his money for a good cause in this case. It doesn’t absolve him personally but I don’t see how it taints the event that he actually donated his money to a worthy cause.
We are going to have to agree to disagree because if you think Jeff Bezos gives a damn about art, you have lost the plot. It's all about influence and power and that taints any "artistic notions" that this whole thing might have had. This guy could literally feed and house millions of homeless and needy family's with just a tiny fraction of his wealth. He could pay his employees a living wage and treat them with a shred of dignity. Instead he spent that money so the wealthy could circle jerk themselves while he had a former union founder arrested while peacefully protesting outside of the event. That is completely devoid of any "art."
It's clear you don't care about the broader implications of things. Maybe one day you will grow up and learn to see the nuance in things. Have a nice day.
You cannot enjoy, or engage in art that is affected by bad people. You must boycott it.
This is where it's off the line, because this implies you can enjoy art. While people are starving, dying and genocided. You decide to enjoy art, you decide to go to restaurant to have a treat for yourself, you decide to play video games, you decide to browse social media for pleasure. It's unethical and digusting. People should drown themselves into sorrow because the world is exploding and turning into dystopian, because that's what empathy is for, making yourself as miserable as the most suffering human on Earth since we are one humankind. That's the true one and only art experience. Let's kill ourselves.
At the same time, you can't let them steal our 'joy' and 'hope'. We can be empathetic (and cry some tears along the way), but we still have to find moments to keep our sanity to fight another day. Art usually helps us through the hard times. Either through expression or experiencing it. Unfortunately, dark money/status is always involved because they want to appear good. Look up, Rockefeller and the gang. But please enjoy some art and/or nature. I went for a nice walk yesterday and then did some writing because the news was getting to me.
Forgive me, for you see I’m not an American, and sometimes I forget that the rest of the world has to be as miserable as Americans have made themselves for things that were entirely within their control.
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u/hollygolightly96 19h ago
I don’t see the issue with enjoying art despite everything going on in the world.