Wednesday, May 25, 2011

would einstein get bose dk

are you serious dk bose. Before someone files a public interest suit notice the truly democratic intelligence failure. One that all can live with. It comes with a sense of humour. This has cocked a snook at the censors.
But Ive always wondered whether some kind of censorship wasn’t such a bad thing. Truth be told even the most depraved art would not have the heart to kill. So the debate over the studious elision of the danger conveyed by art becomes moot.
But there is notional danger and clear and present danger. As apart as they are in any physical space they beg the same defences at all times for mental peace. The threat in the abstract meets a wall in censorship.
It can’t be denied that art does inspire all kinds of emotions that can become difficult to deal with in aggregate. If censorship is rather an acknowledgement of the fact that people have things to hide and an instrument which enforces that need then I agree that we do have a lot to conceal.
For example if any sizeable number of people in a population have a problem with screwing in public then the authorities might conclude that the same set would very much mind merry exhibitionism on tv. Well that is an argument.
Now if there was only one art and only one way of expressing it then as a concession to what is ultimately such a useful thing the powers-that-be could have allowed its pursuit despite prudish inconveniences. Like you see there is an urgent need for energy and that’s why the japs signed onto nuclear power. We know the dangers, they knew all the while. But that is a necessary evil. Hence allowed.
The fact that art is not subjects it to censorship. Because it is always seen as serving a higher end. But the higher end cannot appear to be an impulse contrary to quotidian orderliness. Here i think that art qua art has nothing to do with controversy and I’m sure that if it came to us in its own words it would say so much.
The problem lies elsewhere. The artist is a man, the censor is a man, both are god’s children and that’s about all either knows; if the one is in denial the other becomes the defender of the faith because how can two people have the same point of view. In such situations to say a second thing is to invite a riposte. But that is what art has set out to do. There is truth in art but it certainly is not the whole truth. Art is an opinion. It needs a critic for clarity and a censor it needs for celebrity. Censors don't deserve a second thought. So imagine our glee when run dkb pulls a fast one on the scissormeisters. No bloodshed, mission accomplished. It has announced the era of the smart rebel in bollywood. no?
All the same to the toil of the artist long suppressed and the artwork that received its burial at the censor’s table bhaag bhaag dk bose dk bose dk bose bhaag bhaag dk bose dk bhaag

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

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TC said...

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