A new Dark Age for Dutch Culture

seraph · Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 9:49 am Post subject: A new Dark Age for Dutch Culture

http://www.sonicacts.com/A_new_Dark_Age_for_Dutch_Culture.html

is that so?

v-un-v · Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 9:59 am Post subject:

Time to start developing then exporting a strain of weed that grows better in the dark than under lights? Wink

Blue Hell

DrJustice · Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 12:43 pm Post subject:

"... the State Secretary for Culture, Halbe Zijlstra... "
"...Zijlstra, who admits that he lacks any understanding of art and culture..."

Ahh, now...

BTW, in Norway too, the only qualification for minister posts is that you have no qualifications whatsoever.

DJ
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v-un-v · Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 12:58 pm Post subject:

Welcome to Britain!

For the last 10 years or so, they have been calling us, the creative types, "the creative industries" (whatever that means Rolling Eyes

), not having a clue who we are or how we work.

We've just been placed into little boxes, and are accepted on how much we have in the bank rather than what merit we actually have. (And how good one is at 'sucking the cash out' of the government).

I blame capitalism, post-modernism and "illiberalism'. Anyone can be famous for 15 minutes (but no longer).

Acoustic Interloper · Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2011 5:47 am Post subject:

Perhaps we are in The Corporate Millenium now, cranking out narrow thinking MBAs like zombies in a grade B movie.

Plenty of them here in Pennsylvania.

v-un-v · Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2011 6:33 am Post subject:

Personally I blame the dread XLS spreadsheet! Twisted Evil

kkissinger · Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2011 9:49 am Post subject:

As one of my professors once said,

"In a drought the flowers are the first to die."

Acoustic Interloper · Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2011 10:38 am Post subject:

I guess the ancient Greeks were right. There are capricious gods raining havoc down on the mortals from Mount Olympus, with the modern Olympus being large banks and other multinational corporations.