Emascularea cenzurii în epoca post-discriminării

Abstract

Censorship is a result of the presence of culture in the world, of the need for order and discipline, a useful mechanism that ensures the continuity and perpetuation of thought, an axis mundi for civilization. Censorship serves a world that cannot exist otherwise than by virtue of comparison and the need for order, it discriminates, but it doesn’t do so because it possesses an intrinsically malicious attribute. In order to enjoy the status as a member of the clan, one is obliged to respect the rules and customs that society imposes. Similarly, today’s artist is forced to adhere to the principles and “trends” that contemporary culture postulates, whether or not he agrees with them.

Basically, we live in an age of “post-discrimination”, an age of confusion, in which the one who is the servant of culture self-censors out of fear, in order to preserve his status and reputation, an era of oversaturation that tires and irritates. Beyond ”self-censorship”, ”cancel culture” or the fever of ”political correctness”, can world wide artists manage to make a common front and, alongside their public, to signify a language, a code of solidarity, or freedom of expression remains „free” only on a theoretical level?