Charles/87; –imho you’re right on Kubrick’s politics & it’s good to re-examine that part of him –but those leftwing artist politics are so axiomatic that i guess what i do with them is just suspend that whole question in favor of the artwork’s stand-alone merits. That may not be such a good thing to do –you’re right and thanks for the heads up. I mean, not that enjoying the work of lefty artists will harm anyone aware of the embeds, but sending the artist your ticket money surely is a vote for his worldview.

OTOH, a working artist who is ‘lefty’ can’t have really examined the individualist entrepreneurial gamble his/her career actually is –the lefty politics at bottom must amount to an appeal for more emotion in life –thus to automatically villainize the ‘system’.