The perpetual ripoff is continuing in Canada
The ripoff of the creative by the fat cats with money
Book publishers, music publishers, arts publishers, art galleries
It's been going on for almost 2000 years
probably more
The people that create the greatest works of art
the pieces that people are oohing and ahhing about 100 years later
live in poverty and squalor
institutionalized poverty
It's a huge fucking scam that everyone knows about
but no one will stick up for them
because they can't afford lawyers
The one policy I agree with of Stephen Harper's
is his axing of benefits to these huge "arts organizations"
that are just rich fuck brown nosing ass-licking sinkholes
The rich stand around partying
on taxpayers money
in huge glassy edifices
paying shitloads for fucking shit-art
abstract bullshit that doesn't make waves
Twelve foot paintings of squares and triangles
thousands of dollars for scribbles
fucking bullshit
What we need is a guaranteed wage for original Canadian artists
Paid directly to the artists, not to some big organization
with administrative costs to match their parking lots of SUV's
real artists dying in the streets
How many Van Gogh's and Bill Reid's have we slaughtered?
Driven to nothing
spit upon
We ripped apart the social services system that was keeping them alive
consolidated the media
payouts for art go right to the rich now
no ones paintings get shown till they're dead
or they suck some rich fucker's dick
it's fucking sick
What we need is a new paradigm of true modern living arts
supported at the grass roots level
A gov't website
each week, to keep getting their paltry $1000 a month
barely enough to scrape by
they have to post 1 painting per week
or one chapter of their book
or one poem
Every Canadian is given a set of credits they spend
They get TAX credits for spending them on the Canadian Arts site
they go online
and browse the NEW Canadian art and music and writing
they give credits to what they like
Artists who get the most credits in a month
get a bonus
Artists who go 3 consecutive months
with no credits
lose their right to participate for a year
The gov't protects the copyright
of all artists posted
none of this shit
of a poor artist
being responsible for protecting their work
from being mass produced
in China or the Middle East
and shipped all over the world
The Canadian Gov't itself
distributing the art
of LIVING Canadian artists
Like iTunes
but purely Canadian
Craftspeople making handcrafts
carvings and weavings
delivered by Canada Post
to Canadian consumers
Canadian musicians
getting promoted by their own people
the PEOPLE choosing
not art-fag curators with pockets full of bribes
saliva on their dicks
Money for the arts in Canada
is all going into the hands of the already wealthy
while the true groundbreaking art
that will be remembered
is copied and passed around
underground
until some entrepreneur in another country
takes advantage of the fact
that a poor Canadian artist or writer
will never be able to sue them
and CSIS, unlike Interpol
doesn't investigate the ripoffs
of Canadian cultural heritage
Publishers make millions off of a book
While the writer themselves
makes a couple hundred thousand
Music publishers gouge artists
for 50% of the royalties
while Socan doesn't even know how
to automatically scan every song on every station
in the age of computer spreadsheets and song recognition services
they still follow their old way
of tiny commercial radio sampling
keeping a huge portion of what they collect
and never distributing it.
Think about it
A Canadian artist
Being promoted by his Gov't while he's still alive
A potter being shown internationally
while she still breathes
not worrying about having to work at an American fast food franchise
to live
Arts funding pays for "Playhouses" and "Symphonies"
That only the rich can afford to visit
Cities spend more on a single Art Gallery in a year
than their whole province spends on welfare in a year
and none of the artists alive in that city
is ever hung there
Galleries should receive their funding
based on the amount of wallspace dedicated
to living artists
from that particular city
and by the number of people that actually go
to the gallery
Suddenly curators would actually have to look around
they would have to find the true artists in their city
and they would have to find the art that truly draws people
not the puerile shit that the art snob schmooze scene
is trying to promote
Think about your last visit to your local municipal art gallery
how many living local artists were represented there?
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