{"id":2818,"date":"2005-04-16T09:47:37","date_gmt":"2005-04-16T13:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2818"},"modified":"2020-12-30T16:40:54","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T21:40:54","slug":"the-get-over-it-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2818","title":{"rendered":"The “Get Over It” Crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mitch has a piece up right now about conservatives and art<\/a>. I really can’t add anything to it. All I can do is echo his sentiments, and say to him: “Job well done”. He explains perfectly what I call the “get over it” mentality of many conservatives, which I share – on some level. HOWEVER: when that “get over it” mentality is applied to art, I lose interest. Completely. If you say “Get over it” to Hamlet, you’ve got no play. You say “Jesus, dude, get your act together, and stop whining” to Van Gogh, you’ve got no great paintings. I am more interested in the mess and bother of life, and the art I’m interested in (Dostoevsky is a perfect example) shows people in the middle of crisis – how do they handle grief, rage, sorrow, etc? There’s a strain of conservatism that gets impatient with human weakness. Half the blog-posts I read out there (and many of the blog posts I write myself!) link to some human-interest story, and the bloggers comment is: “GET OVER IT.” or “STOP WHINING” or “GROW UP”. “Pull yourself up by your boot straps.” “Don’t complain. Just suck it up, and do better next time.” Etc. There is a lack of patience with indecision, frailty, weakness. Again: I understand where they’re coming from, theoretically, and I feel that way myself at times – but NOT when it comes to the role of art in society. No.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mitch has a piece up right now about conservatives and art. I really can’t add anything to it. All I can do is echo his sentiments, and say to him: “Job well done”. He explains perfectly what I call the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2818"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21736,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818\/revisions\/21736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}