America responds to Pornography!
(And you just know that we do... !)
Remember, just because it's Degenerate, doesn't make it Art!
Surrealism offers such a perfectly contemptible excuse for puerile self indulgence such as this...
But I'll take it gladly!
So, just click the links.
<You can guess where they are...
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Q. Is Surrealism truly "as beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on a dissecting table"?
"Being the right thing in the wrong place and the wrong thing in the right place is worth it because something interesting always happens."
— Andy Warhol
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"The surrealist use of games, like that of art and literature, is primarily focused on the subversion of premeditation and rational constraints, but in addition it is also a subversion of the artist's ego with the potential for revealing the Marvelous heavily relying on the release of collective creativity."The objective of Surrealist artistic and writing exercises, experiments and techniques, after all, is to expand cognitive and experiential perception via the unfettered imagination, divine change, psychological exploration of the unconscious, eroticism, absurdist disjointed juxtaposition of images, and even sheer Nihilistic alienated amorality uninhibited without self censorship or taboo and in dreamlike suspension not merely of disbelief but of critical reality testing whatsoever, all with the goal of liberation from the normal confines and paradigms of reality into bold new horizons.
According to Salvador Dalí, the "simulations of mental diseases" in Surrealist works of art "systematizes confusion. . . and so assist[s] in discrediting completely the world of [everyday] reality."
For better perverse, the surreal has become that category of experience expressed via fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions, seductive, fantastical, to horrific or even humorous effect, in art, fiction and parable, enfolding weird uncomfortable irreconcilable incongruity and estrangement from the ordinary and banal or even of powerful situational forces and conflicting realities, pressing and confusing ordinary people into ego-alien behaviors, as well as the name for any kind of art or performance of the unusual and impossible in order to so vividly reproduce or evoke just such perverse peculiarity and humorous or grotesquely overt bad taste.
The very essence of the Fairytale is not just how wishes come true and problems resolve themselves, but even intractable contradictions in plot logic and every dilemma of human ambivalence as well, all resolve and melt away as a matter of course, even taboo into the impossible and surreal, by transformations, by gaping plot holes and transparent slight of hand, even dreamlike, unreal, characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions, fantastical, to horrific or even humorous effect, in art, fiction and parable, even all such as may be distinguished from any more rational and ironic narrative happy ending of satori wherein the solution may be hidden in plain sight all along.
Verily, the Zen, as the quest for emptiness amid enigma, may even resort to the surreal, non sequitur, enigma and contradiction, replete with surreal nonsense and incongruous juxtapositions.
Indeed, likewise, because Surrealism either seeks to disorient an audience unless they are slyly in on the gag, either way, Surrealism demands it's own blithe conviction, never overt superiority. Hence, the true relevance and impact of Surrealism is only undermined by vastly unfunny adolescent smug camp.
Taboo often serves as an heteronymous reinforcing mechanism of unconditional allegiance to hypocrisy, authoritative denial, manipulation, coercion, oppression and persecution of pariah. Taboo evokes crimestop demanding the silent neglect of interesting and important matters. When any sort of a veto or indefinite tabling of discussion is not, in turn, for any practical purpose, open to revocation, and when every discussion of such obstruction is itself subject to similar obstruction, this effectively constitutes a TABOO (also sometimes spelled: TABU or TAPU). Because beyond even the most dire cultural or personal shame, embarrassment or simple bad manners, let alone even sheer fairytale unpremeditated magical realism and the provocation of horror and ambivalent denial and projection, a taboo is frequently not merely any cautionary restriction or particular open and explicit prohibition and not merely any howsoever sacred or blasphemous or otherwise an object, meme or notion of whatever awe, dread and reverence, but typically being so fraught with deep denial, often even forbidden from very mention or certainly to cogent question even for better definition, thus either characterized by subtext of unspoken common understanding and even conspiratorial bad faith antirationally shrouded in relentless obscurantism. A challenge to taboo must either be ignored or the challenger or some scapegoat attacked. And this too, must be somehow however vaguely surreptitiously rationalized and disguised.
Surrealism partakes in a tradition of the flouting of taboo extending back from antiquity as in Stoicism or even Zen and the rabid taboo against ego. But all such influences of Nihilistic value destruction in every dishonest guise are eventually replete with taboo of their own, as evidenced from antiquity in the Zen and Stoicism, up up the bleeding edge of Behavior Modification that so welcomely infiltrates what passes for education, manifesting also in the veritable latter day cult of exhortation to willful positivity that so shamefully taboos not only the admission of unhappiness but autonomy in any relevantly meaningful quest for happiness. All such taboo is often readily enforced by bullying and flaming in the suppression of dissent towards the concealment of controversy. Indeed, squeamishness regarding Cryonics and even radical life extension so vividly demonstrates how taboo supersedes and undermines even sheer survival instinct, let alone reality and pleasure principles.
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