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This is not a ‘quirk of art,’ MSNBC.

OK? OK? Something very much like this showed up in Delta Green: Targets of Opportunity*. Which is a roleplaying supplement for the game Call of Cthulhu. Which is a game that explores mind-destroying cosmic horror, and the best way to futilely delay its inevitable final victory over our weak human concepts of ‘logic’ and ‘sanity.’ They put that in there to freak out the people playing the game, because it takes a lot to freak out your average Call of Cthulhu player, these days.

(pause)

No, I don’t know why this freaked me out, either. Maybe because I wasn’t expecting it.

Moe Lane

*Look it up. Page 183.

This is a sad video.

In that I am associating it with feelings of sorrow and melancholy…

…and I’m not sure why. The music, perhaps? I mean, as art it’s very interesting and uses technology in a clever way; obsessively, perhaps, but then obsession is hardly unsurprising in art. It’s probably not meant to make people sad, and yet it does. Or at least it does me.

Odd.

Art for politics’ sake.

Via Instapundit, the funniest thing that you’ll read all day. From Patrick Courrielche:

I find it hard to believe that the Obama Joker creator is the only serious detractor (assuming that it is a critical commentary) within the art community. And I’m sure the incendiary criticism will keep others from creating similar images. But regardless of political affiliation, the art community must embrace all rational dissenters. Art must not exclusively serve the interests of any presidential administration.

(Bolding mine) Not because any of it’s actually wrong, of course. Well, at least it’s not ‘wrong’ in the narrow, technical sense of ‘general ethical guidelines.’ In the more important sense of ‘elementary political reality,’ on the other hand I suppose he can’t be more wrong. In that sense, art of the type that Mr. Courrielche apparently produces is expected to exclusively serve the interests of a Presidential administration, assuming that the President is a Democrat. If the President is a Republican, then the art is expected to exclusively serve the interests of the Democratic party in general. Quid pro quo. The Democrats make sure that Mr. Courrielche – or at least his friends – have enough NEA grant money to survive; surely he doesn’t think that this largess was being given out for free?

Most artists would not want to be referred to as tools of the state, but in the case of Obama’s administration, that’s exactly what they’ve been so far.

Bless me, but I think that he very possibly did. I don’t know whether to be disgusted, or envious.

Moe Lane

Crossposted to RedState.

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