about our good buddy Carl Orff, best known for Carmina Burana
@Leucrotta It is fascinating to me how authoritarian and fascist regimes are horrible at art as well as everything else.
They want everything to be about how glorious their homeland is,only allow a very traditional idea of beauty, and shut out all outside influence, and all the art stagnates.
They can't see the value in anything they don't already know and are too closed-minded to accept actual progress and innovation.
re: about our good buddy Carl Orff, best known for Carmina Burana
@ziphi the ultimate irony is of course that you don't get people inside and outside your country to think it's a great place with only sanctioned official content; it's the Lu Xuns, Dmitri Schostakoviches and Keith Harings of the world that get people thinking wow, yeah, China/Germany/Russia/etc are pretty cool. "I don't understand this, but eh, someone out there likes it, and I gotta trust it to peter out on its own if it's no good" is sort of the ultimate expression of democracy.
