I heard about the wildfires yesterday, and thought: "ain't it the rich people who have homes in that area?"
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:( to all the people who aren't rich I'm sorry
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Lots of actors whose work you appreciated lost their homes. I'm not defending rich people, but many of these folks actually earned it, not all inherited or squatted on wealth. Anthony Hopkins, Cary Elwes, John Goodman, Jeff Bridges, Billy Crystal among others lost homes. I'm sure a lot of amazing Hollywood memorabilia went up in flames too.
E: Why the negativity? Just generic hating on rich people with no nuance? I draw the line at when people use their wealth, personally or politically, to put downward pressure on people's wages, benefits, and quality of life, doubly so if they personally benefit from it like getting a bonus for layoffs. I don’t hate on someone winning at life as long as they aren’t keeping others down to win more. If you want to hate on wealth save it for the execs trying to use AI to put these people out of a job. People like Goodman walked the line to support their unions. Show a little flexibility before you throw more torches on the fire.
They all have enough to recover with ease, aside from a few lost artworks and memorabilia.
Except the things that cant be replaced with money.
Your kids first shoes, wedding photos, family heirlooms, the funny thing about rich people is that they are still people.
Things are just things.
That's unfortunate, I liked Oppenheimer. Always sucks to find out someone involved was a total dickweasel.
There's just so many people that work on movies and finance them that there has got to be a 100℅ chance that every great movie has a dickweasle wedged in the process somewhere.
You gotta separate the art from the artist. When one of my favorite bands got canceled because the lead singer was into the young ladies, I tried to remember there were four other dudes in the band, as well as presumably a lot of behind the scenes folks who assisted with touring and studio production. Same with movies. You can denounce people for being shitty, but at the same time recognize they were a part of something great.
I don't know about "gotta" but often, I agree. Picasso was a piece of shit and a great artist. I think it's actually counter productive to take the binary good/bad route in cases like his. The guy is famous already, if we were to try and reverse that, we not only remove art from the world in a sense, but we also decrease society's overall ability to discuss the light and dark side of things.
Picasso was a piece of shit ~~and a great artist~~.
FTFY.
Oh God. Every art historian and critic and fan basically disagrees but ok cool
Every art historian and critic and fan
Lol! You mean those people whose entire living depends on pretending the (so-called) "art world" isn't 90% hype and 10% "Great Man" fallacy?
I can throw a brick on deviantart.com and hit someone that's more talented than Picasso was (well, you could before it got swamped with fake AI), but none of them gets hyped up by a scam industry selling feelgood to rich people, do they?
Your ignorance (and contrarianism) shows.
If someone can take a look at Picasso's works and say they suck, their opinion is to be ignored. So thanks for that ❤️
Since you're having a hard time dealing with the cognitive dissonance you are suffering from due to your pathologic worship of (supposedly) "great men," I'll be reposting the obvious for you.
Picasso was a piece of shit ~~and a great artist~~.
Deal with it.
Since you fail to understand words, ✌️
Again. Since you're having a hard time dealing with the cognitive dissonance you are suffering from due to your pathologic worship of (supposedly) "great men," I'll be reposting the obvious for you.
Picasso was a piece of shit ~~and a great artist~~.
Again... deal with it.
You literally can't or won't read and that's a you problem.
Picasso was a piece of shit ~~and a great artist~~.
Again... deal with it.
Lol sure thing, contrarian random who doesn't understand art or words
who doesn’t understand art or words
I'm not the one snorting "great man" fallacies just because some rich people told me to... that's YOU, Clyde.
What a stupid, ignorant way to be. Cramming words in someone's mouth just to be mad about them. 🤢
Learn to read.
Do tell... does the shoe polish rich people wear on their boots taste better than the regular kind?
Idiot, read the fucking thread, where all I said was he was a shitty person who produced beautiful art. What the fuck do you think the point of badgering a stranger like this is? I never once said fuck all about he being great himself. In fact I said he wasn't.
When I go in an art museum and see literally 100 beautiful works that influenced generations, me personally, I don't pretend I'm so fucking brilliant that everyone admiring that with is wrong including myself because the dude was shitty.
Next, in true dipshit fashion, I'm sure you'll cram a bunch more fucking words in my mouth and claim I'm lying about something. I don't give a flying fuck.
all I said was he was a shitty person who produced ~~beautiful art~~ garbage.
Fixed that for you, AGAIN.
I don’t give a flying fuck.
Nope. That's not true. You sure do give a flying fuck about garbage.
What makes his "art" so great, genius? The fact that rich people paid ludicrous amounts of money for it?
that influenced generations, me personally,
So why didn't the people whose art Picasso APPROPRIATED to create his rip-off shite influence you?
Read first sentence and decided to block your moronic ass