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stella41b -> RE: D/s and Society (12/7/2007 1:02:10 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Owner4SexSlave
For instance, the people in the performing arts, Yes they may have many fans that Love them to death. However, who are these performing artist serving at the end of the day? Where does the money trail lead? In reality are they not somebody who's in the middle?
I can come back on this, if I may, if only to explain. I work in theatre as a playwright and stage director. I don't have 'fans'.. nobody loves me to death, I the person am unimportant, this isn't something for me about fame, power, money, or being known. All I have is a name, and when that name is against the title of a play and a date, time and venue people who know theatre and who know who I am come and see what is being performed.
Yes I serve, and I serve firstly and most importantly my actors because without them there would be no theatre and my work would just be words on sheets of paper. Secondly I serve my audience, it is for them I write and it is them who come to see the actors who perform on the stage and deliver my ideas to the audience through drama, or comedy, or whatever. Thirdly and finally I serve the people. There is no fame, no popularity (the star system went out of the window during the 'off Broadway' period of the 1950's except for the biggest commercial Broadway productions).
The performing arts you are talking about is just the tip of the iceberg - that most visible 10-15% of the whole performing arts industry - Hollywood, TV serials, B movies, newsreaders, the music industry's top stars, the people who are household names and known to everyone. This is just the tip of the iceberg.
The remaining 85% are people just like me, without fame, fortune, glory or adoring fans. They are people working in theatre, circuses, supporting actors and actresses, bit part actors and actresses, film and TV extras, session musicians, backing singers, street buskers and entertainers, all the actors and actresses who appear in commercials, voice overs, those who make announcements on television, radio, at railway stations, airports, drama therapists, Biffo the Clown who does children's parties, people working on promotions and advertising campaigns, those involved in the massive corporate video industry, teachers and lecturers of drama and performing arts, and many other people you walk past on the street and you wouldn't know that they are working in the performing arts. You can even add to that poets, artists, drama students, and so on...
I also add to this category Pro-Dommes, and for me a professional Dominatrix is a performance artist just like any other. She has had to go through the training, the practice, ahe has to prepare each and every session to the specifications of her client, she has to have all the right equipment, the right clothing, to dress up in the boots, the corsets, the leather and the fetish gear. She works in a studio, on 'the scene' this is nothing more than theatre of one person with an interactive audience and quite rightly in my opinion she charges a fee or requires a tribute for her services. She is not a prostitute, but a performer, and I for one feel that she deserves equal recognition for this from society just like any other performer, irrespective of whether they be an actor, actress, clown or magician. To me there is not much difference between what I do and what she does, especially if she works in the scene at a fetish club or scene event.
You can also add to this the porn industry.. It's the same principle, not everybody is a Dita von Cleese (the name is coming off the top of my head so may be wrong) but there's many other porn actors, models, fetish actors, CP models, and so on. This is a big industry, the Internet is full of it, and I guess many of us who use generic e-mail addresses such as Hotmail and Yahoo! if we visit certain sites receive the 'Bulk Mail' for pills, penis enlargers, films, DVDs and so on.
However I am also part of the media industry.. through my writing. But I'm not part of the so-called media industry which issues forth the propaganda in the media and the press, I would be a journalist but for one reason.. I refuse to follow editorial policies or toe the editorial line, which is why I work freelance.
"You who harmed a simple man, do not feel secure: for a poet remembers." This statement, written by the Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz, is inscribed at the foot of the Monument to the Fallen Shipyard Workers of 1970 which is found in the Polish city of Gdansk. The monument was erected to remember the 1970 riots in Poland under the communist leader of Gomulka, where the workers were pacified by the police and military under orders of Soviet president Leonid Brezhnev.
It's this statement which is the core fundamental principle of what I do in my work, and therefore through my artistic work I serve nobody other than the people. Why? Because I am none other than one of the people, just like everyone else.
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