What Are You For?
Often when we are frustrated, the things that weigh on our minds most is what we’re against. Instead of remaining positive and initiating change through supporting the things that are great, we boycott and draw unnecessary attention to the things we hate. Sometimes people check out the things we dislike simply to find out what all the fuss it about.
That is why I like this new website I found on the web called Regenerate Culture. It’s creator Ryan Zemple says,
The arts have tremendous power to shape the culture and simply criticizing “degenerate” art gets us nowhere. Instead, we need to pay heed to two quotes of debatable origin. “Criticize by creating” is good advice, regardless of whether or not Michelangelo was the one who first said it. Similarly, “Give me the songs of a nation, and it matters not who writes its laws” may or may not originate with Damon of Athens, but rings true regardless here in the nation’s capital. I firmly believe that by fostering redemptive art, regenerate artists can bring about a morally and spiritually revitalized culture.
