Response to Nicole's question on Dewey

Dewey has a strong point about the Far reaching, biological relationship art has with human individually and collectively. 


We can see in many instances how art is corrupted and used to distort our perceptions of what is favorable, good, or worthy of approbation. The most significant effect of the capital-corporacratic influence in art is the perversion of human perceptions in a collective way which operates as the hitherto greatest apparatus for promoting, maintaining, and spreading the ideas, impulses, behaviors, and societal structure of the ruling institutions. 


The systematic mass production, consumer market stabilization, cost-benefit structure of the corporation ensures that all art, all means of aesthetic influence that are under corporate control are used as means to condition our perceptions and behaviors. The uniformity which arises from this conditioning renders people with increasing amount in commonality and direct-ability because through art a reality is established so that conditions, states, feelings, thoughts, and physical icons and objects that do not belong in the reality are outcast or left our of reality. 


Art is key at maintaining the status quo in in numerous ways, "capitalism" that Nicole is referring to is the status quo. The most primal, most fundamental areas in which art maintains the status quo through social division is the engenderment of the human sexes with characteristics establishing in our shared reality what a female and male are. 


It embraces the past forms of engendering the sexes which divides and assign statuses of domination to men and to accommodate to increase the division and or to cope with a society of increasing complexity. As seen in western corporate ideal of a women being promulgated to billions of people. Women's have been made into complete sexual objects through modern corporate "art". The sexual objectification in  advertisement contribute to and manifest  the rape-abuse culture prevalent across the world including U.S. colleges, the self value and perception deficit imposed upon our women based on their appearance and utility to men which as the corporate model incites is the use of women to dominate over in any way, as their own kind of a miniature king.


what is more scary is that if they are successful in convincing whole groups of people to dominate over other wholes groups of people, to exploit and use and dominate over for the lust and lack luster repentance for personal hurts and shortcomings or the impulse social mediums embed in them, if they do convince people that they can be their own miniature "capitalist" then the people in control will surely have a much easier time directing how people behave.


The alternative I think requires a collective consciousness to focus and deliberate on a resolve but in one persons limited view, I believe the the alternative is a removal of mediums which seek to centralize and make into uniformity aesthetic works which have a deceptive purpose. If we could remove barriers of integration of ideas, experiences, and means to express and enjoy art from more perspectives then we could truly hone in our artistic potential as humans. If we promoted art as a creative, innately diverse, and truly human activity, than I do believe it would bring us together, not in uniformity, but in an understanding that would to to progression on many levels.