@Jolly said in Palladium:
@Aqua-Letifer said in Palladium:
These are the exact same motherfuckers who for the past 50 years have threatened to disown their kids for majoring in theatre or wanting to study fine art.
Now, you and I know that's not true.
Well, it's weird. I find it to be less true in the south, where it's less uncommon for families to have a musical tradition, or woodcarving or something similar. But I've gotten a lot of shit for my degree. I've had a job interviewer ask me if I wiped my ass with my master's for all the good it did me. Vast majority of that derision comes from conservatives.
It's like they're okay with the arts so long as it's something people do in their basements and never bother other people with it. As for a profession, though, owning your own business is the noble pursuit. Studying the arts makes you a loser expecting a handout. That's the line. I know would-be music, theatre, literature, fine art and design majors who did business, psychology and teaching instead because daddy threatened to cut them off if they didn't make that choice. Guess what their parents' politics were.
Which has always been insane to me because as I said, it's the same people who lament the loss of traditional values. How do they think those values get passed down, the Necronomicon?
There is indeed good stuff happening on an institutional level in the humanities, but most of it's coming from conservative or Christian organizations. And there aren't nearly enough of them.
