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★ Offence & Offense & Offend

Are we offended more than ever these days?  Are artists and writers running scared?  Is creative risk too risky?  Is artistic licence too easily cancelled?  Offended by Irvine Walsh, Sky Arts 2020  

 

If it provokes a single thought, isn’t that what Art is for?  ibid.  

 

Silence is inertia.  It’s death.  It means we’ve given up on the dynamic that progresses humanity.  ibid.  

 

In Britain, Art has rarely enraged public opinion more than the Sensation exhibition.  It propelled the Chapman brothers as part of a superstar generation of British artists to global infamy.  ibid.

 

The front line: Art offended the over-sensitive in the 20th century but now comedy is the battleground.  ibid.

 

Have people got the right to be offended? … ‘It doesn’t mean that you have the right to change the whole world to cater to your own particular sensibilities.’  ibid.  Andrew Doyle

 

‘Artists only work for corporations now.’  ibid.  M.I.A

 

 

How can you ban language, words?  How’re words offensive?  And why should I have to tolerate your interpretation?  I’m the one using the word.  Ask me how I’m using it, don’t tell me.  And if you don’t like the way I’m using it, so what?  It’s my right.  It’s my freedom of expression.  Without that, we’re nothing but slaves.  My language, now fuck off!  John Lydon aka Johnny Rotten, re court case against Richard Branson and record shop for publicly displaying record cover with the words, Never Mind the Bollocks [blanked], Here’s the Sex Pistols

 

 

It is not difficult to govern.  All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.  Mencius

 

 

I listen to all these complaints about rudeness and intemperateness, and the opinion that I come to is that there is no polite way of asking somebody: have you considered the possibility that your entire life has been devoted to a delusion?  But that’s a good question to ask.  Of course we should ask that question and of course it’s going to offend people.  Tough.  Daniel C Dennett

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