Sidekicks and shovels

I always admired people who have that skill of political correctness, the ones who are diplomatically applaudable, journalist jargon like “allegations, insinuations, apparent referrals” – it’s all so fantastic because I lack all of those skills. Spades are spades and I call them so. The world has become so sensitive that even fantasy superheroes are affected. Every white superhero has a black sidekick for political correctness and democracy’s sake –Bob in The Incredibles, Ironman, GI Joe, they slipped up with Batman and Robin but when Robin makes his 21^st century appearance aside those bat wings…mark my words! Is it great or have the sidekicks rather than supported or taken over the hero, simply just booted the show altogether?

It admirable, it’s a wonderful rainbow world, but it’s also a terribly oversensitive one.  This culture of political correctness has turned society into a fearful one rather than one that celebrates freedom and expression. Always do or say the correct thing because you don’t want to offend anyone, and worse, the “be correct” because “what if one day in the future”… So many things are based far too much now on fear, of the future, of others, of ostracisation, that we have become ridiculous in terms of boxing things into categories in which everything must fit – and if it doesn’t, it’s just politically incorrect. (If you’re dumb but not hearing impaired…well that’s a purely rude insensitive insult)

Have we killed creativity in our quest for equality? Have we bred a different form of sheep? Sheep all the same? I was horrified that Lady Gaga was named one of Forbes most top influential women! According to them, her techno pop monodromes have revived pop culture. She has large followings all over the world, people imitating her dressing, her image, but not her work, because there is non of the to reenact. She is not creative. Her two stylists invented her look, and all she has been able to do is replicate that look every day, even on “casual” strolls to do some shopping. Sure she’s great at selling herself in this way. But why does she have such a following? She is false, almost mute, there is nothing inspirational about her, nothing new that she hasn’t tried to copycat from artists of the past, and all she has painstakingly tried to reinvent from musical history has failed – none of it succeeded as revivals or reinventions of ‘life’. In most of her music videos she is involved in killing someone. Sadly all this reflects to me is how dead she is as a persona, an ‘artist’ and an inspiration. What has become of us that we can’t even identify this anymore? That we embrace the death of creativity and call it genius.

It’s time to leave the past behind us, I respect that sentiment. So I shall henceforth call spades … shovels.