The point about the need for a distinctly British movement is of particular importance. What may resonate among Americans won't necessarily resonate among the British, and neither will it be appropriate to simply import American ideas into a British scene, because we have developed along different paths. I have thought for quite a while that certain factions of the radical right fail because, ironically, they don't really understand their own people.
Really interesting. I am an Anglo-Catholic Christian so agree that American Puritanism is something we need to hold at arm's length. I do believe we need Christ though, and think age should be honoured as much as youth treasured.
Totally with you on Anglosphere and space colonisation though.
As long as most the land in Britain is controlled by unproductive inbred parasites who can tax any productive effort for their private gain, Britain will continue to turn into what it was in the Middle Ages; a backwater and an afterthought.
Thanks so much for reading and giving your thoughts.
Don't think I don't understand the concerns about AI art. I really do. I particularly feel sorry for the artists who spent their whole lives tirelessly training in their profession, to suddenly have it seemingly made redundant.
I can only compare it to the emergence of photography. Imagine how painters must have felt when, just when their techniques had evolved to the point when they could almost completely represent the human form, photography made them redundant. Famous individuals and families no longer required them.
But yet art developed in new and interesting ways. Artists found a new purpose, realising that photography could not capture the imagination like it could the present, and so you see art move to be more stylized. The genre of the animated film was a conscious choice for the drawn over the photo. Snow White and the Seven Dwarves would have been simpler to be made as a live action film, but Walt Disney 'chose' for it to be hand drawn, and it was one of the most successful films of all time.
So I think that AI art will be similar. Whilst it will unquestionably be a great shock to the visual artists in the short term, long term artists will once again find their role. It isn't like the trained artist has no advantage with AI art, they can still use their imagination and skills to synthesize the AI generated images together and iron out mistakes, that the normal user like myself cannot. It will allow a greater quantity of output to be generated, and therefore, allow the creation of a more beautiful world.
As you say, there no doubt could be a resurgence of analogue media. Just as the romanticist movement glorified the pre-industrial and the handcrafted when industrialization was changing everything. You could see a repeat of the sort of outlook of John Ruskin and William Morris, a conscious choice to shun machine production and instead embrace the handcrafted.
However, AI art does give normal people the advantage of allowing their artistic visions to come into reality, and extend the interest in aesthetics wider. This is an advantage to us, as the arts at present tend to be very Woke-inclined. By making the barriers to entry lower, we can use AI art to spread a vision of our politics, even with a shortage of artists of our own.
Yeah, being terminally online is a problem. Unfortunately, to an even greater extent than in the US, real-world organizing comes with extreme social and legal risks.
So it must be very smart. We do not want a British Charlottesville. Our goal has to be making ourselves respectable in mainstream right of centre circles.
I compare us to France, and how their current movement is the result of decades of cultural work. The best time to start doing this was decades ago. The second best time is now.
The point about the need for a distinctly British movement is of particular importance. What may resonate among Americans won't necessarily resonate among the British, and neither will it be appropriate to simply import American ideas into a British scene, because we have developed along different paths. I have thought for quite a while that certain factions of the radical right fail because, ironically, they don't really understand their own people.
Really interesting. I am an Anglo-Catholic Christian so agree that American Puritanism is something we need to hold at arm's length. I do believe we need Christ though, and think age should be honoured as much as youth treasured.
Totally with you on Anglosphere and space colonisation though.
Fair enough. We're all on the same side at present.
I'd prefer Christianity to Woke, particularly High Church Anglicanism.
As long as most the land in Britain is controlled by unproductive inbred parasites who can tax any productive effort for their private gain, Britain will continue to turn into what it was in the Middle Ages; a backwater and an afterthought.
Churchill was an Anglofuturist. :D
Anglofuturism seems based. Dominic Cummings would approve. Churchill would approves. The NHS should subsidize embryo selection.
Britain needs to grow economically. Free markets and building more housing would help.
Thanks so much for reading and giving your thoughts.
Don't think I don't understand the concerns about AI art. I really do. I particularly feel sorry for the artists who spent their whole lives tirelessly training in their profession, to suddenly have it seemingly made redundant.
I can only compare it to the emergence of photography. Imagine how painters must have felt when, just when their techniques had evolved to the point when they could almost completely represent the human form, photography made them redundant. Famous individuals and families no longer required them.
But yet art developed in new and interesting ways. Artists found a new purpose, realising that photography could not capture the imagination like it could the present, and so you see art move to be more stylized. The genre of the animated film was a conscious choice for the drawn over the photo. Snow White and the Seven Dwarves would have been simpler to be made as a live action film, but Walt Disney 'chose' for it to be hand drawn, and it was one of the most successful films of all time.
So I think that AI art will be similar. Whilst it will unquestionably be a great shock to the visual artists in the short term, long term artists will once again find their role. It isn't like the trained artist has no advantage with AI art, they can still use their imagination and skills to synthesize the AI generated images together and iron out mistakes, that the normal user like myself cannot. It will allow a greater quantity of output to be generated, and therefore, allow the creation of a more beautiful world.
As you say, there no doubt could be a resurgence of analogue media. Just as the romanticist movement glorified the pre-industrial and the handcrafted when industrialization was changing everything. You could see a repeat of the sort of outlook of John Ruskin and William Morris, a conscious choice to shun machine production and instead embrace the handcrafted.
However, AI art does give normal people the advantage of allowing their artistic visions to come into reality, and extend the interest in aesthetics wider. This is an advantage to us, as the arts at present tend to be very Woke-inclined. By making the barriers to entry lower, we can use AI art to spread a vision of our politics, even with a shortage of artists of our own.
Yeah, being terminally online is a problem. Unfortunately, to an even greater extent than in the US, real-world organizing comes with extreme social and legal risks.
So it must be very smart. We do not want a British Charlottesville. Our goal has to be making ourselves respectable in mainstream right of centre circles.
I have an article about this specifically. I talk about the failure of the BNP, and how that failure still haunts the British right.
https://anglofuturistmag.substack.com/p/why-is-britains-anti-woke-movement
I compare us to France, and how their current movement is the result of decades of cultural work. The best time to start doing this was decades ago. The second best time is now.