#distributism

[disgruntledexplainer]

boy, but i do love watching companies burn because of their own greed, callousness, disassociation from reality, and short-sighted decisions. It's delicious.

[spann-stann]

[fictionadventurer]

Art is, in its essence, a conversation. The artist speaks through the work, and the reader, viewer, or listener hears and responds. This is what I see--I want you to see it, too. This is what I feel, know, understand--do you feel, know, understand these things, too? Art can soothe, comfort, inform, challenge, disgust, delight, horrify, enlighten. It connects people by allowing them to share perspectives and respond to each other.

People tend to object when art becomes a commodity. Rather than a conversation, this art is now an object that I am trying to sell you. This makes the conversation less honest, as artists mute the truth they are trying to communicate in order to appeal to the most possible people. It can stop the conversation entirely, because art becomes a series of objects to collect. Art’s value is no longer the message it speaks, but the price tag one puts upon it. Paintings are traded in a vast global stock market for the mega-wealthy. Stories are snapped up by companies that make audiences pay for never-ending series about beloved characters. Music is distributed by corporations that mold all music into whatever sells best. Art becomes mere advertisement, where the only message that matters is the one that convinces people to part with their money.

When people object to “high-brow” art, it's partly because they are not allowed to be part of the conversation, but are expected to mindlessly accept it when other people tell them they have to see it as valuable. When people dismiss abstract art with, “I could make that,” they don’t necessarily mind that the abstract art exists, but that someone is selling it for millions of dollars. When people object to reading classic literature, part of the problem is that literature's exchange of ideas is reduced to a checklist of books that one has to read to consider oneself “well-read”. People are not allowed to have honest reactions, but are expected to appreciate it just because someone else said it was valuable.

The best and most honest art is made in community, because it’s the place where those conversations can happen most naturally. One is not trying to appeal to the masses, but having a conversation with friends about how they see and understand the world. If the outside world also responds to this conversation, it can spread further. But when one is making art with the aim of fame or fortune, that community is lost--the art is being offered as an object for someone to buy. You can’t have a personal connection with a crowd. It’s not that no one should ever be compensated for making their art, but the art needs to start with the aim of connecting to others in honest conversation, or else art becomes a dehumanized commodity. Mere objects instead of a path toward community.

[divinecomedyproductions]

“It is Capitalism that has forced a moral feud and a commercial competition between the sexes; that has destroyed the influence of the parent in favor of the influence of the employer; that has driven men from their homes to look for jobs; that has forced them to live near their factories or their firms instead of near their families; and, above all, that has encouraged for commercial reasons, a parade of publicity and garish novelty, which is in its nature the death of all that was called dignity and modesty by our mothers and fathers.”-G.K. Chesterton

[eternal-echoes]

The Life of a Distributist Girl

A distributist girl goes to her local small business cafe for her morning coffee to get energize for the day. 

Then she opens up the local small business bakery store that she’s a cashier at. As she raises the blinds of the window of the bakery she waves her hand at the local passer-by on his way to open up his own small business store. 

During lunch time she goes to the local co-op pizzeria to satisfy her hunger. 

 After work she goes home riding the train. 

The next day she does it all over again.

Then at the end of the week, she deposits her paycheck at the local credit union bank.

This is the life of a Distributist Girl.

[lokwinske]

I wanna do more research on Christianity and its relation to economic philosophy/politics

[tribow]

I feel like when people are trying to make the point and shift the blame on capitalism they reslly hurt their argument.

If you blame capitalism you will imply the solution is change to a new economic system and that's a herculean task to say the least.

Like I get it, the foundational sructure of our society is flawed, but do you know how vague it is when you just say "capitalism?" Please be more specific, you sound like you don't know what you're talking about.

[artistotel]

hey! for todays protest, i made this little zine about palestine (holding just simple and basic information).

you can download the zine here, fold it yourself, and distribute it around.

no credit is needed. feel free to leave it around bars, protests, or wherever. simply print it (borderless) and fold it. here is a tutorial on how to do it.

dont stay silent. there is a genocide of horrendous, atrocious proportions going on. also if you are a zionist here to argue with me, i dont plan to entertain you at all, not on my art blog. fuck off, you'll be swiftly blocked. i see enough of you clowns on my main and i have no energy for you. you can skip the death threats too bc i dont give a shit.

(i'm off to get ready for a surgery now, i just wanted to post it before this. if you need anything, i might take a bit to reply)

[thestuffedalligator]

My brother-in-law has a Thing where he gives me increasingly rare copies of The Bee Movie and it’s long since gone from “Goofy running gag” to “I don’t know how much money he’s willing to commit to this bit and it Scares Me.”

Where the fuck can we go from here

[cemeterything]

teen girl angel with one white wing and one black wing, not because of any angsty fall from grace or demonic parentage, but because she's an emo who thinks split dye looks cool

[disgruntledexplainer]

and repeat

[spann-stann]

[ispyspookymansion]

its really wild how many movies and tv shows are just like, obscenely skinny. how many casts are representative of the average population, if you sampled a crowd in a normal store or on a train? how many actually “average” bodies do you see on screen? how often are the stomachs shown flat or concave, how often are the thighs all muscle no fat, how often are the jawlines and cheekbones totally sharp and not covered by even a hint of softness? its bizarre and offputting whenever you start looking at media with that in mind

[fictionadventurer]

This IMDB trivia about Meet John Doe suddenly makes Frank Capra's distributist worldview make perfect sense. Of course he hated both corporations and the government! They're both massive impersonal machines that crush the little guy trying to make his way in the world!

[catholicpunker]

https://www.paulsofranko.net/2023/11/07/peter-maurin-and-catholicpunking/