The article about political editorial cartooning is interesting. Social media has totally messed up free speech. Until people can be held accountable for aggression and threats, I fear we're doomed. It's like a new "dark ages" now resulting from information overload. Even pointed, intelligent critique gets lost in the enshitification of …
The article about political editorial cartooning is interesting. Social media has totally messed up free speech. Until people can be held accountable for aggression and threats, I fear we're doomed. It's like a new "dark ages" now resulting from information overload. Even pointed, intelligent critique gets lost in the enshitification of everything.
That said I do also think ethics in the creative class have suffered. Statements like this, from the article, "Good cartoonists push boundaries and upset people..." reveal a kind of habitual malice aforethought. Cart before horse.
The same is true in the art world. To be avant garde you need do something wacky that offends. It's such a cliché. Today there's no 'garde' to be 'avant' of. And creators have lost their grounding.
I'd like to think there is or will soon be a new new way of doing things. I haven't seen or found it yet though.
The article about political editorial cartooning is interesting. Social media has totally messed up free speech. Until people can be held accountable for aggression and threats, I fear we're doomed. It's like a new "dark ages" now resulting from information overload. Even pointed, intelligent critique gets lost in the enshitification of everything.
That said I do also think ethics in the creative class have suffered. Statements like this, from the article, "Good cartoonists push boundaries and upset people..." reveal a kind of habitual malice aforethought. Cart before horse.
The same is true in the art world. To be avant garde you need do something wacky that offends. It's such a cliché. Today there's no 'garde' to be 'avant' of. And creators have lost their grounding.
I'd like to think there is or will soon be a new new way of doing things. I haven't seen or found it yet though.
Thanks for all your great work on Substack.
I tend to agree. Especially on the count that social media has messed up free speech.
Thank you for the kind note.