Comments on: A View From Stage Right; My Manifesto.

By: TBogg » Tales from the BigHo

TBogg » Tales from the BigHo — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 22:14:18 +0000

[...] Stage Right: I am blissfully unaware of the fact that nobody actually reads anything puporting to be a "manifesto". More to come! [...]

By: Zackery Pitts

Zackery Pitts — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:45:01 +0000

oh no !! i like chrihanna soo much !!

By: Big Hollywood » Blog Archive » A View From Stage Right; Part 2

Big Hollywood » Blog Archive » A View From Stage Right; Part 2 — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 01:50:35 +0000

[...] Part 1 of what I half-jokingly called my “Manifesto”. [...]

By: DAW

DAW — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 14:13:40 +0000

great, thanks. i was just wondered whether or not to take your opinion seriously, and you've given me a definitive "move on. there's no informed opinion here." i appreciate it.

By: Tennwriter

Tennwriter — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 04:33:25 +0000

Perhaps you ought to read the memoir'Tenured Radicals' about a professor biting a college student in the chest, and then the college faculty slamming the publication the student wrote for.
I think its pretty clear that the violent group in today's politics is the Left. I'm not saying the Right is wholly innocent, but much more so than the Left.

Ah, why am I talking to you anyways? You've got your theory. Right=stupid, inartistic, thuggish. And the Government is here to protect you from all those brownshirts.

Wouldn't it be more interesting to discuss the creation of conservative art by replacing liberal cliche's with conservative truths?

By: jimocean

jimocean — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 04:27:46 +0000

well this is the problem with his whole argument. who says conservatives are shut out and excluded? where is the proof? my point is, there just aren't any conservatives who actually try to get the funding. if there were, with quality product, i bet they would get it. but there just aren't that many conservative playwrights. and anyway, who cares about the politics of the writer really? my favorite TV show is '24' and i heard that one of the exec producers is a big conservative, and i said, who cares? i'm addicted to the show.

By: Tennwriter

Tennwriter — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 04:05:28 +0000

Thanks Lola. I remember when my wife said "Oh, I finally understand you. You're an artist." This was after we'd been married for several years so evidently she'd suffered some confusion as to what was in my head. I think the biggest problem conservative artists have is what R. Emmett Tyrell called 'kulturfog'. You have to make up your own stories, your own cliche's, disconnect from the expectations the liberal overculture has programmed in to you, and so on….all that is good because you can be orginal by merely being conservative, but its hard too because we artists get better by example from other artists.

By: AndrewPrice

AndrewPrice — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 03:10:01 +0000

So basically, if someone mentions a conservative, you will claim they were really a liberal.

Also, using your argument, let's look back at history. Once you get back beyond the early 1900s, no one would have accepted modern liberal thinking. No one was pro-gay, everyone was racist (by modern definitions), almost no one held atheistic views, etc. That means that almost every one of the classics was written by conservatives — using your own test. So maybe you should show us some great liberal dramas?

By: Laura

Laura — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 23:21:03 +0000

Of course, Stage Right's entire argument is that there isn't anyway for conservatives to go write there own play and be separate from the government funding and not-for-profit organizations. The system is rigged in favor of liberal artists and to the exclusion of conservative voices, if I understand him correctly. So, I'm all for dropping the whole government funding for the arts thing and have everyone compete in the free market. How many tickets can they sell for some of this nonsense? But if we aren't going to do that, then my tax dollars should go to support voices that represent me just as much as they go to represent others.

By: Stergeye

Stergeye — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 23:19:04 +0000

I elect to do neither. One of the prime benefits of having critical faculties is the ability to smell out stinkers long before you step on them. Before I spend either my money or my time, I seek to establish that the reasonable expectation that the expenditure will not be wasted. It's why I spend time here at BIG HOLLYWOOD rather than HUFP or KOS.