07 April 2012

How Art Contributed Nothing to Anything Ever

On how art has never ever - in the history of anything - contributed to social structure and history.

I say, music has essentially contributed nothing to society. Music had no effect, at all, on the protests and movement in the 1960's. John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Creedance Clearwater Revival, Woodie Guthrie, Buffalo Springfield, and so on, had absolutely no effect on the civil rights movement and anti-war protests. How society views the Vietnam war had nothing to with the singer/songwriters of the time.  In fact, all of rock 'n' roll had little to do with the sexual revolution. The Bible has basically had no effect on history, it had little to do with the inquisition, and was not a major cause of many sorts of persecutions. To this day it has no effect on society, people hardly use it to justify hate towards homosexuals along with other sorts of hate. In fact, during the fight for abolition, supporters of slavery hardly used the bible to support the institution. On the other hand, the likes of Martin Luther King Jr. didn't at all use the bible during the fight for civil rights for African Americans. Mother Theresa didn't even use it to inspire her kind deeds. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair didn't  affect the meat industry. Photography of the Civil War didn't at all influence war and how it was portrayed by the media.

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