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Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy

E285. Politics Is Ruining The Arts - Clifton Duncan

Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy

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4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2024

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Summary

Clifton Duncan returns to the podcast to discuss the importance of creating culture that we can all share and the role the arts play in our shared experience. He and Bridget discuss the erosion of the spiritual well-being of our society, how art is what a civilization leaves behind once its gone, the effect that politics and political correctness are having on the arts in general, the loss of men and masculinity in the arts, and the reason good art is transcendent appeals to our common humanity. They also cover Clifton's crowd funded Thomas Sowell play, the backlash to making art more politically overt in one direction, how being a professional idiot is really difficult, why normal people don't go into theater, the importance of a live audience, and why neither one of them wants to be just another talking head. Check out Clifton's Substack here . Sponsor Links: Dumb Gay Podcast - https://bit.ly/WiW-DumbGayPod PlutoTV - https://bit.ly/WiWPlutoTV

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0:00.0

What certain kind of way are you feeling?

0:04.0

See now it's funny because now that we're recording I feel more self-conscious so I don't feel as a...

0:09.0

Well for anyone who doesn't know I'm back with Klipp...

0:11.0

Well actually I don't even think I need to introduce you anymore.

0:14.0

You're just a huge star now.

0:17.0

I have no idea what you're talking about but I do appreciate the kind words.

0:21.0

I'm back with Clifton Duncan everyone for those of you just

0:24.0

tuning in we were talking about he mentioned that he was feeling a certain kind of

0:28.4

way before we started recording and now of course I had to hit record and find out what that way is.

0:35.0

You know I feel bad just because you know you're

0:40.0

like you're kind of supposed to be bright and shiny for these kinds of things and have a positive aura.

0:47.0

But, um, no, I'm just, I'm fighting a lot of frustration these days and right now I I don't I've never felt more I guess

1:02.2

as Constantine says politically non-binary than now, I've never felt more

1:06.2

homeless than now, I've never felt more alone than I do right now.

1:12.1

And that's because my primary focus has been on art and

1:17.8

culture in this, you know, in our quote-unquote alternative space, whatever the

1:21.8

hell you want to call it. And no one else seems to really care. And I, I, it's, I try to figure out, you know, why am I so absorbed by this? Why am I so obsessed with this? I mean, obviously there is a, there's a, there's a, uh, involved but at the same time I just say to myself that this is

1:49.0

such an obvious component of you know you're talking about the culture war but you're not talking about the kind of art

1:55.2

That your culture is producing which your culture would be defined by

2:00.7

And I'm trying to figure out how to be a better ambassador and to communicate on a wider scale.

2:10.0

If the... if the connection between the, I don't want to say the collapse of society, but the sort of erosion of our spiritual well-being I guess as a society

2:27.6

the the importance of creating culture that we can all share and have a shared interest in.

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