All the recent concern over censorship are rooted in the need of some people to assail our very imaginations.  All this misguided effort is the direct result of social pressure gone wrong.  It is not only the prerogative but the responcibility of artists of all types to question the social norms of society.  This is not to say that society doesn't need norms for the safety of the populace, but as society develops, the customs and mores of the past need to be examined with new eyes to discover if they still hold merit in the world of the day.  Fundamentalists will always fear change, for they are unable to adapt in an ever changing world.  Were it not for the questions posed by the thinker's of the day concepts like freedom, abolition, and women's rights would never have been taken up by the masses and the evil's of the past would still plague the society of today without opposition. 
 


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D. Lin
10/23/2012 15:48

Too, true. Societies are ever evolving social organisms, and aren't we glad. I doubt anyone would want to live in the Early Middle Age world of surfs and nobles - except the one percent at the top. Even they would be glad that medicine had progressed beyond "bleeding medicine".
Art, by word, canvas or camera by its nature entertains out minds, and if the artist explores the boundries of our lives they are performing aother valuable function as well. Thanks for your entertaining explorations.
PS Where is spellchecker when I need it?

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