“It’s not the job of the artist to give the audience what the audience wants. If the audience knew what they needed, then they wouldn’t be the audience. They would be the artists. It is the job of artists to give the audience what they need.”
Alan Moore
"One Night Only" director Will Gluck says it's "100%" true that Gen Z and Gen Alpha don’t want to see sex on screen:
"I went through this on two movies. I have long pages of empirical data about it. The only thing is I don’t think it’s just Gen Z and Gen Alpha. I believe it’s been a societal shift from taking nudity in adult situations and putting them on your phones at home for everybody. Now it’s more of a private, intimate thing that people don’t want to see when they’re in a shared experience. Whenever people now see nudity or very adult situations in a big theater, they get uncomfortable."
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His 'truth-telling' and 'biting satire' were only permissable as such because he had the prestige of being one of The Club™. He was allowed to be a nasty cunt to literally anyone, so long as it made print. Be a nasty cunt back, and you are slandering a great mind of the press.
Remember when the Panama Papers came out, revealed that all rich people in the world are part of enormous criminal network to dodge taxes and hoard stolen wealth in offshore accounts, and the journalist who reported was murdered by a car bomb, and no one was held accountable, and literally nothing happened.
This is what will happen with the Epstein Files if we don't unite against child rapists.
The Newsagents podcast should stick to caping for the worst people in politics, rather than trying to be moral arbiters
Empty vassals rattling with no more actual legitimacy than you or I
your critique of ai cannot be entrenched in aesthetics because there will be a time when you see an ai image or hear an ai song and think "that looks/sounds good". your critique of ai must always be entrenched in the poisonous effect it has on people's brains and the planet.