Tired of Senseless Political Correctness

Saturday Night Live brings out the sketch of Tiger Woods denying being unfaithful.


Bunch of talking heads from the media start yammering about how wrong it is, mainly cause Rihana is on the show.
GOD I JUST LOST ANOTHER BRAINCELL!!!

First of all, abuse is not funny, no matter who the perpetrator is or who the victim is.
Is not funny for a judge to be hanging around the water cooler and joke about a wife being beaten by the husband, or a husband being beaten by a wife.
Saturday Night Live IS A FREAKING COMEDY SHOW!!!
It is ok for them to poke fun at the NY Governors' blindness, and at Tiger's situation, CUASE ITS A FREAKING COMEDY SHOW
It may not be very funny, it may not be smart comedy, but the problem is not them poking fun at that topic.... is us being so freaking Politically correct that we can't pick our out panties out of the crack of our asses even if they are ridding up to the amygdales!!!

We seem to enjoy mislabeling things again. Calling performers "artists" was one of the first mistakes we seem to enjoy in society, latter mistaking "Talking heads" (anchor people) for journalists, and now assuming that the press and comedy outlets should adehere to political correctness...

Well it is not them who have an eskewed sense of moral direction. I think it is us that we prefer to dispense with reasoning and making judgement calls while protecting our sense of decorum under the guise of "being politically correct"

Do you think you are a part of the problem or a part of the solution?
Do you think we should enfoce politicall correcteness everywhere and all the time to ensure a "Conflict free" environment?

December 17 2008
Saint Jovite, Quebec, Canada.
(Lots of towns named after saints in Canada)
Artists and Performers.

I've been hearing a log about artists feeling ripped off by the internet and piracy, in the last 5 years.
One question comes to mind:
What is an Artist?
Among so many definitions, i have one that i've always lived by, very visceral and very basic:

Artist is an individual who creates demonstrations of his talents no matter the situation or context.

And thus, we find that the music industry has been very keen and quick in appropiating the term "artist" for his employees.
A performers doesn't have to be an artists, any more than an artist has to perform his/her art.

A modern day music performer, let say... Britney Spears, has to meet a few requirements before we call her artist:
We have to know she is writting her songs, composing her music (or involved to a high degree, not lesser degree in these activites), and then we should appreciate that she can perform them in public.

But what is more important, this "artist" (and any other artist) should continue creating his/her art no matter the degree of public recognition or financial success.

And artists creates art because he/she can't do anything else with all that within him/herself.

Most people that I've seen being called artists are basically performers.

Could we start using a more proper terminology?

I mean, someone like Frank Sinatra had a great voice but he sang mostly the material from other writers and composers.
He was a cog in a machine. Separate the lyrics, the music and then put them together with the voice and interpretation of the singer, but as you can see, his role as a singer is more a function of interpreting the creative process that other individuals did and giving it his spin and personal touch.
But speaking in absolute terms, any other performer can sing that song, while only that one writer and only that one composer could've had created those lyrics and that music score.

Care to share your opinion?
Disagree?
What performers you consider grossly mislabeled as artist?
Which one hold the title of artist with dignity and pride?
You got the floor.
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Me?
I'm a middle aged guy, born in Europe and transplanted to the US very early on.
I speak 3 languages fluently, and work in New York City.

My main mantra "A life not examined, is not worth living"


Lets exchange experiences and analyses, of those experiences.

And so one day you wake up, and you realize you are lying in a place that feels ephimeral, interchangeable, and you have an epiphany:

Maybe the rest of your fellow man are as lost as you are!

I'm a man of the 21st century, like many of you, a fellow traveler.

I was born in a place far from here, and for reasons beyond my control, i was uprooted, and forced to move around.

And fueled by the power of the dreams of youth, I too believed that there was an Ithaca waiting for me. I just had to find my way to it.

But halfway through my life, I want to stop, and tell my tell, weave a litany of sorrows, teach without teaching, leasons that were taught to me by life herself.

And thus it begins...