14 October 2003

Art: The Creative Outlet to Save a Generation

This week’s The Onion | What Do You Think? asks: “After the recall of Gov. Gray Davis, Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected governor of California. What do you think?” Sarah Jacobs, Lyricist, replies:

Who would have thought that a bad Austrian artist who’s obsessed with the human physical ideal could assemble such a rabid political following?

Ah jokes. Senior year I took a class on totalitarian art. There’s a lot to be said for how much Hitler looked at running an empire as having hundreds of thousands of pretty blonde toys to dress up in uniforms and order to perform for him. What would have happened if he had just gotten into art school?