Feb
6
"But that’s what art does. Madonna’s religious provocations certainly didn’t have any substantive content; she’s not going to be a theologian anytime soon. The provocation was itself the point. The flouting of norms was a way of arguing that they shouldn’t be norms, and this seems to be what MIA is doing too."
Here is a thing I wrote a while back that you may find relevant today, especially given my decision to generally Keep My Mouth Shut About the Whole Thing. (Though see “heel.”)