BLOGS
I'm leaving this site. I haven't been here long or accomplished much, so I highly doubt I will be missed.
I shall be seeking out a different site that is more supportive of a person's right to express themselves artistically and sexually.
As everyone is now aware of, Nana's set was removed and she is now archived.
I am not angry, but I am disappointed. And as an artist, I am a tad insulted.
I have an elaborate argument to support my decision, but I'd rather not waste my breath. When I attempted to explain my opinions in the forums there was an overwhelming lack of understanding.... so I will simply let others who are wiser speak for me:
The populist authoritarianism that is the downside of political correctness means that anyone, sometimes it seems like everyone, can proclaim their grief and have it acknowledged. The victim culture, every sufferer grasping for their own Holocaust, ensures that anyone who feels offended can call for moderation, for dilution, and in the end, as is all too often the case, for censorship. And censorship, that by-product of fear - stemming as it does not from some positive agenda, but from the desire to escape our own terrors and superstitions by imposing them on others - must surely be resisted. -Jonathon Green
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. -John Stuart Mill
Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art. -Jacques Prevert
I wish you all well, and am by no means terribly upset, nor do I harbor any hate. I have just come to the conclusion that this is not the proper place for me.
Goodbye and Good Luck.
Kisses and best wishes,
" "
P.S. I am in the process of deleting as much as possible before I leave including friends, comments, and pictures.
I shall be seeking out a different site that is more supportive of a person's right to express themselves artistically and sexually.
As everyone is now aware of, Nana's set was removed and she is now archived.
I am not angry, but I am disappointed. And as an artist, I am a tad insulted.
I have an elaborate argument to support my decision, but I'd rather not waste my breath. When I attempted to explain my opinions in the forums there was an overwhelming lack of understanding.... so I will simply let others who are wiser speak for me:
The populist authoritarianism that is the downside of political correctness means that anyone, sometimes it seems like everyone, can proclaim their grief and have it acknowledged. The victim culture, every sufferer grasping for their own Holocaust, ensures that anyone who feels offended can call for moderation, for dilution, and in the end, as is all too often the case, for censorship. And censorship, that by-product of fear - stemming as it does not from some positive agenda, but from the desire to escape our own terrors and superstitions by imposing them on others - must surely be resisted. -Jonathon Green
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. -John Stuart Mill
Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art. -Jacques Prevert
I wish you all well, and am by no means terribly upset, nor do I harbor any hate. I have just come to the conclusion that this is not the proper place for me.
Goodbye and Good Luck.
Kisses and best wishes,
" "
P.S. I am in the process of deleting as much as possible before I leave including friends, comments, and pictures.
JANUARY 2012
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
JohnnyT