Cristina >> Study up!
So you don't embarrass yourself posting Pink Floyd songs while voting for right-wing politicians.
William >> I separate the art from the artist.
For example, I like Chico Buarque's compositions, but I lean center-right, and he is a historic communist (or socialist).
Chico was born in 1944; in 1960 he was 16.
I'm not going to look it up, but the songwriters behind Pink Floyd's music must be from that same generation.
The group Pink Floyd was formed in 1965 in London. The peak of their success occurred during the 1970s.
Those folks who were born or grew up in and around the 1960s were heavily influenced by the motto "Sex, drugs, and rock and roll."
And by the philosopher Antonio Gramsci, who became "trendy."
Rock music and critiques of the "capitalist system" took over the so-called "West."
Gramsci never wrote a book ready for publication.
His texts were notes taken in school notebooks during the time he was imprisoned in Italy, and they were only organized and published posthumously starting in 1948.
"Prison Notebooks" is a collection of 32 notebooks written by him between 1929 and 1935.
It is in this work that he develops and deepens his most influential theories, such as cultural hegemony, organic intellectuals, the war of position, passive revolution... the kind where you introduce certain concepts into the existing culture, breaking it down from within.
The artistic and academic spheres were the preferred venues for introducing concepts that would lead to the gradual replacement of the "right" by the "left."
Religion remained the "Opium of the People," a structure to be demolished.
Without further ado...
Religiosity persists strongly around the world.
The human mind's connection to "spirituality" is stronger than Gramsci's theory predicted.
The Internet has decentralized information; academia now has to defend its theories before the public, it's no longer enough just to flash a diploma at people.
Artists no longer have the privacy of old-school media, where their PR teams could showcase only their best physical and behavioral angles.
Although art fan clubs still exist, artists are increasingly just "normal" people who happened to get famous.
The "King of Soccer" or the "Pop God" have their moments of glory and can quickly fall into oblivion... just like their opinions, if they aren't grounded in solid ARGUMENTS.
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