THE POWER OF ART AND THE FEAST OF THE GODS - impressions about art

July 29, 2024

author: Katarzyna Nowocin-Kowalczyk (Catherine)

The Power of Art And The Feast of The Gods - impressions about art and life with the cultural expert's eye

It only took one French performance, the Opening Ceremony of the XXXIII Summer Olympic Games in Paris 2024, for the whole world to start discussing art. It only took one theater for the world to finally open its eyes and see its own caricature. It saw the true face of the ideology that it is being fed, and which it mindlessly applauds by supporting politicians who sanction this ideology.

A big plus is that at least half the world learned about paintings and artists that they had no idea about before. Above all, it is worth noting that the creator of this performance achieved the intended effect. It caused shock and a loud global discussion. Photos from this spectacle went around the world. And the more we talk about it, the more energy flows and feeds the theater of ideology.

Global outrage, condemnation and delight. After all, everyone saw in this image exactly what they wanted to see. Why? Because information is just information. A picture is just a picture. It is the viewer who gives it their emotions. The viewer lets the information pass through their own system of emotions, beliefs and convictions. That is why some saw a wonderful performance, while others saw Jesus in the purple Dionysus.

Often a shock is needed for people to finally see what is before their eyes, but for some reason, they do not want to see or pretend not to see. It is easy to be an echo and repeat the word you have heard as your own. It is easy to use emotions instead of your head. But one step back, distance is enough to see more. And when you do this, when you put emotions aside, you become an observer of events, not a pawn on the chessboard in a game of chess played by the politics of the players. And that is when the questions arise.

Who is the player? And did the one who created this Parisian spectacle not do you a favor by showing you the image of the world you live in? By shocking you, he made you think. He made your glasses fall, or at least slide down your nose. After all, an artist is just a messenger. A postman bringing a message. Why do you want to kill the messenger because you don't like the message? An artist paints what he sees.

And here is the Artist, he showed you how ideology, propaganda and mind control distort the perspective of the individual and the crowd. How easy it is to use religion and ideological politics to divide people and pit people against each other.

How easy it is to rule a pen. All you need is to create an enemy - whether real or virtual. All you need is to create fear. All you need is a good actor on the political stage who knows how to play on the strings of human emotions and beliefs, and the entire crowd runs after him, enchanted by his smile and words, chanting his name, placing him on the throne and giving him power over their mind. The mind of the crowd. The mind of the Pen.

And this crowd is so stupid that it will believe in any stupidest nonsense. Echo. Copy - paste. A programmed mind that mindlessly repeats that John's poem "Imagine" is a communist manifesto. Why? Because that's what the Google king said, thus glorifying communism and the entire leftist ideology that the Shadow Government is currently trying to introduce globally.

Two theaters and one. The power of art. The power of the Polityka theater. You see an actor in the theater and you transfer your emotions to the costume, role and scenography. You see an actor on the Polityka stage and you become a mindless claqueur. But blinded by the crimson wine of the earthly gods, the self-proclaimed rulers of this world, you don't see what's most important. You don't see the real director of these global bacchanalia dressed in the lgbtqia+ ideology. And it won't even occur to you to ask - Who is behind all this? Who governs these political puppets playing in this Shadow Theater?

©Katarzyna Nowocin-Kowalczyk, culture expert

The Power of Art And The Feast Of The Gods - read in Polish by the author