{"id":2672,"date":"2002-11-15T13:11:41","date_gmt":"2002-11-15T13:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.armedliberal.com\/?p=429"},"modified":"2002-11-15T13:11:41","modified_gmt":"2002-11-15T13:11:41","slug":"art-and-satire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2672","title":{"rendered":"ART AND SATIRE"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u0092ve had some correspondence with Instapundit<\/a> over the whole Burk thing; as noted below, I think he\u0092s off-base, and that he\u0092s not acknowledging a whole history of right-wing satire of leftists (which I don\u0092t have time to research just now, dammit). In my view, that makes his points on Burk kinda meretricious, and as I told him privately, he\u0092s not a moron so he can\u0092t just wave that stuff off.
\nNow he\u0092s comparing<\/a> the controversial \u0091suicide-bomber self-portrait\u0092 with the Burk article, and here I\u0092ll go back to the point above, which is that the painting is romanticizing violence and death, while the article was satirizing reproductive politics. One != the other.
\nBut there\u0092s another point (surprise!!) that\u0092s more urgent. I think Lileks<\/a> (scroll to the bottom) and Reynolds are missing the more serious issue, which is the connection the painting makes between romanticism, Romanticism (as I\u0092ve talked<\/a> about endlessly<\/a>) and cathartic violence.
\nI think that the Beltway shooters may have had an ideological framework that made their violence OK, or a plan to bury an act of domestic violence in a mass murder. But I also think they were acting out of an impulse to cathartic violence which is legitimized by modern philosophers, in the modern arts world, and in the mass media.
\nOne issue (unfair satire) is a cold. The other (romantic violence) is the plague. Let\u0092s not get distracted by sniffles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u0092ve had some correspondence with Instapundit over the whole Burk thing; as noted below, I think he\u0092s off-base, and that he\u0092s not acknowledging a whole history of right-wing satire of leftists (which I don\u0092t have time to research just now, dammit). In my view, that makes his points on Burk kinda meretricious, and as I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}