{"id":52,"date":"2021-02-15T03:04:57","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T03:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/jacobsbraingoop\/?p=52"},"modified":"2021-02-15T03:04:58","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T03:04:58","slug":"a-social-good-kerfuffle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/jacobsbraingoop\/2021\/02\/15\/a-social-good-kerfuffle\/","title":{"rendered":"A Social Good Kerfuffle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I think this is a very interesting concept. \u201cThis\u201d being the question of \u201cwhat responsibility do i have to push \u2018social good\u2019?\u201d  In my opinion, the answer depends.  It mostly depends on what I am.  If I end up becoming an animator, like I would like, then my first, second and third responsibility is to animate.  If I somehow become a musician, my responsibility would be to make good music people want to hear.  The end, right?  Well, of course, were there to be a cause I want to throw my weight behind, I may or may not mention it.  Even then, people wouldnt look at my animation or listen to my music in order to hear me be preachy.  More often than not, people come to artists\/entertainers in order to escape the preachy, moral superiority complex of the rest of the world.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I hear the argument that if you have a platform, you need to use it for \u201csocial good\u201d.  And okay, cool, I understand that, but no.  No I don’t.    Naturally, you, the country, and the queen can all point at me and say \u201cNuh-uh, you gotta\u201d.  And once again, very naturally I would reply \u201cNo I don’t.\u201d  If I want to, I\u2019ll use my platform as a way to create a space for people to escape everyone else forcing activism down their throats.  To me, THAT is a \u201csocial good\u201d, so if that counts, then yes I\u2019ll be more than happy to use my platform for social good – just don’t tell me what social good I\u2019m supposed to push.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, don\u2019t get me wrong, if I choose to use my platform to get away from the moral authoritarianism, I think you should be able to play into that and push whatever the hell YOU want – it\u2019s a free country.  I’m not here to yuck your yum, yah dig?  I just think if an artist chooses to stay in their lane and not preach a political point, they are well within their right to do so.  They are adults, they can make choices for themselves without the mob telling them what choices to make.  Thus is freedom. And hey, there may be some artists that push a different social good than you are thinking.  For example:  For someone on the right, \u201csocial good\u201d may mean pushing a pro-life agenda.  For someone on the left, \u201cSocial good\u201d may mean pushing a pro-choice agenda.  Who\u2019s to say which one is the definitive \u201csocial good\u201d?  Not me.  Probably not you.  Probably not the other.  God?  Maybe, but even then his track record isn\u2019t perfect.  Need I remind you of the Great Flood fiasco that happened because God didn\u2019t like the people he made?  I’m just saying, maybe it\u2019s a little tougher to find an objective moral authority these days that people seem to think.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So do i feel a responsibility to promote \u201csocial good\u201d, I certainly wouldn\u2019t word it that way, but sure.  I would say more I feel a responsibility to do whatever the hell I want and since I have my own morals, values, and principles it will naturally end up promoting SOME kind of social good.  I just don’t wanna hear any authoritarian tell me \u201cNO! You\u2019re not promoting MYYYYYYY idea of social good.\u201d  because I might just start laughing.  At the end of the day, you can just say that\u2019s the pesky thing about freedom: people will do what THEY, not you, want. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I think this is a very interesting concept. \u201cThis\u201d being the question of \u201cwhat responsibility do i have to push \u2018social good\u2019?\u201d  In my opinion, the answer depends.  It mostly depends on what I am.  If I end up becoming an animator, like I would like, then my first, second and third responsibility is to … Continue reading A Social Good Kerfuffle<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11132,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/jacobsbraingoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/jacobsbraingoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/jacobsbraingoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/jacobsbraingoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/jacobsbraingoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/jacobsbraingoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/jacobsbraingoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/jacobsbraingoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/jacobsbraingoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/jacobsbraingoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}