The forces of art and the forces of power, ever since their existence, have always clashed with each other. The battle field, where the fight for artistic exposure is suppressed by the powers of censorship, is not just one field, but a massive number of fields. Fields like painting, advertising, food, media, and even gaming are being massacred by the weapons of censorship. Now, is it wrong to hold back art, or is it wrong to let it run free? It all depends on how the art is presented. There are good sides and bad sides to art.
In the infinite battles of the war of art, the outcome of the war has already been decided, even before any battles have taken place: a stalemate. There are certain things that should be censored in any country. Things like eroticism, violence, negative influence, and plain scary stuff that can make people cry. The government should have the power to protect. Since the government is made to govern the people, it should be logical to say that the government has the right to do anything in their power to protect their people. Without the people, there is no government.
With the protection the government provides, it can shape the society the people live in. young minds will be corrupt and turn precocious with the mind of a sexually violent person without the proper guidelines to show them the right path. Not everything should be censored, but inappropriate things that can damage an innocent society. Examples like decapitated limbs for a movie poster, erotic videos, and gory games should be controlled. The world today is already corrupted. Children as young as ten years already know what sex organs can do, what they feel like, and how it should be used before the government has a chance to teach them.
With that knowledge, children will turn evil, pulling down innocent children into their ranks with the greatest weapon they have in their arsenal: peer pressure. Peer pressure is very lethal. It’s like a disease that spreads like wild fire. Censoring morally wrong material can stop all this madness. The government can have a better functioning society where violence is low and tax dollars aren’t wasted. It is not just the government that should be doing this. It should be the guardians as well. Guardians have a duty to protect their children. Not just their children, but the children of whoever they meet.
Guardians play the role of a role model for the young ones so they can grow to be good people. It starts a chain reaction that can only be stopped by censorship. So censorship is not all that bad. On the contrary on the censoring of the arts, it is also bad to hide what is needed to be preached. Realistic images can teach lessons on life, stuff that just looks cool and inspires new ideas, and people can show themselves off with pride and power. The government is so scared that they make themselves believe that even a bit of bad exposure will cause society to crumble.
That is why in some countries, people are dull and conservative. An example of this is Reading Lolita in Tehran. The narrator stresses on the fact that women are being forced to be dull. Dull as in not being creative with their appearance. Maybe it is their religion, or maybe it could be their tradition. In the book, it reveals that behind the veil, there’s another form of life, and alternate brighter life. Instead of being uniform, they get to shed those dark, lifeless cloths into lively personal images uniquely that define them. The same concept applies to everything else.
Now compare that to a larger scale. The person behind the veil is a country. The cloths are the censorship. People going around that person do not notice her. Those people are the victims of the exposure of art. Those people ignore her because she was so dull, covered up, and damaging herself. Without the cloth, there would be no censorship. People around her will notice her and everything will take off from there. Censorship is not all entirely bad, nor is it all entirely good. It is like a math equation where you must have something to get something.
Censorship is not an absolute force that can censor anything deemed as unfit for audiences. Reality is real, dangerous, scary, and it really sucks. Censoring reality will only have people live in fantasy lands where they are unable to sense the dangers in the world. The government should just as well censor the news since it does what other things do: expose the arts of reality. For the artist, it works both ways. Either the artist is an enemy or an ally of the country that person lives in. it all depends on what type of art is being posted.
