What kind of Art do your elected-0fficials enjoy? It really matters.
Donald Trump has been known to call modern art a fraud perpetrated by those without talent. Trump ever heard of 'deconstruction'.
I have a badge that says "Art Cop". Well, it's kinda a badge. It looks alot like a campaign button, with an artsy logo and bold lettering labeling me as ART COP when I particated in an "Around the Coyote" art festival in Chicago's Wicker Park. I was a performance poet at the time and taught poetry workshops. But that's another diary. :)
I am writing this diary as an expansion of a comment I made in another person's diary.
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The diarist had linked economic theory wth Freud. I think game theory, not Freud, influenced economics. Can Freudian analysis be applied to economics and monetary policy. Perhaps. I didn't think the diarist made the case. My comment is lengthy with several videos from the opera "Tales of Hoffman". The diarist had linked Freud's theory of the pysche (Id, Ego, Superego) to economics and monetary theory. I agree that thought influences economic and monetary theory and policy. I am of the opinion that art (visual & performing) can influence the quality of economic theory.
However, it's game theory that most influences modern American monetary and economic policy not Freud.
Freud and Jung were contemporaries and collaborators. Freud thought the psyche was tripartite with an Id, Ego, and Superego. Jung essentially agreed, but additionally thought that in each male there was inclusion of the feminine that he termed "the animus" and in each female there was inclusion of the feminine that he termed "the anima".
Freud was greatly influenced by his study of anthropology and the Opera by Offenbach, 'Tales of Hoffman'. In my comment have embedded several videos of some of the characters from Freud's favorite opera.
I don't know what kind of art your representatives listen to, but I think it's worth knowing. The art your elected representative enjoys is telling-on-them, not just of their education and social status, but also of where their sympathies and soul really is at. When put on the line, after considering what their constituents want, what is good for the community, municipality, State, the USA: the final and absolute consideration is what the elected-official's soul, really wants.
Planet Drum, an album by Mickey Hart the Grateful Dead's drummer, is one of my favorite albums.
In this video, Mickey Hart talks about learning about rythmn from his father.
I think he learned rythmn from his mother. When Mickey was in utero, the first sound he heard as he unfolded and grew, from a blastocyte to a baby, was his mother's heartbeat. Tha-thump, tha-thump.
A rythmn of life. Sound. That's all music is, it's a sound. The first sounds we are introduced to are from nature. The tha-thump of your mother's heart. And that's what music is at its base. Music equals the sounds of nature. Many a soprano, like Maria Callas, actually warbled along with songbirds.
Jorma Kaukonen's Embryonic Journey is a soft guitar solo. He's with the Jefferson Airplane.
Music is only one of the art (communication) forms available to us. There are visual and performing arts.
What Art do your elected representatives listen to, watch, have on their iPods, have on their walls? What Art moves the heart of your elected official.
Lady Gaga, Sid Viscious & the Sex Pistols, GLEE, Sex & the City, One-And-A-Half Men; are all art.
It really matters if you know. Because ultimately, they will vote cast their vote not on behalf of their constituents, not with their heads, they will vote with their hearts.