Australian musician states that ‘there are times when it is almost a sacred duty to silence the PO *** of the mouth’ in a response published on his newsletter
Nick Cave Used your newsletter The Red Hand Files to talk about politics. He said he does not identify himself with the left or the right and that today he finds both sides difficult to defend and recognize.
The Australian musician answered after a fan said he argued with a friend about Cave’s opinions. The composer then wrote a long text explaining his political and philosophical ideas.
“I am not sure where I position myself about nothing today. As the floor slides under our feet and the world hardens around its particular visions, it becomes increasingly uncertain and less self-confident,” wrote Cave.
“I am neither left nor right, finding both sides, as they mainly present, redeensable and unrecognizable.”
Cave explained that if he needed to summarize his position, he would say he is a ‘spiritual conservative with liberal inclination’, but stressed that this has more to do with his temperament than with politics.
Cave said that he believes that humanity is more than just matter and sees the world as a mocking but beautiful. For him, we have a moral duty to fix what we can and avoid causing more damage.
“I believe we have an obligation to watch those who are genuinely marginalized, oppressed or suffering in a useful and constructive way, not to explore their suffering for our own professional advancement or personal survival,” he said, citing his own loss of loss as a reason to want to be more “cautious with the world and try to treat all his inhabitants carefully.”
Later, Cave said it resists moral certainty, group mindset and dogmatism. He said he is bothered by the egocentric politics of some colleagues and does not believe that silence is always a sign of violence or cowardice. For him, being silent can be the best choice when you’re not sure or in doubt, which happens often.
“I am mainly comfortable not knowing and I think this is a spiritual and creatively dynamic position. I believe that there are times when it is almost a sacred duty to silence the PO *** of the mouth,” he added.
The musician also explained why he does not break ties with people due to his political positions, saying that he feels “proud and immense pleasure in having friends with divergent views.”
“I suppose that, in the end, I value actions on words,” he concluded. “I am starting to understand where I position myself, I position myself with the world, in its goodness and beauty. In these hysterical, monochrome and combative times, I cry to your soul […] I sing to her, the compliment, I encourage her and effort to improve her-in worship, reconciliation and pulsating faith. ”
The position described by Cave in The Red Hand Files coincides with comments that he shared with NME in 2023, when he said he realized that “there is no metric that says virtue produces good art.”
“I don’t think it’s an accident, or it seems to me that there is some correlation between transgressive and bad and good art behavior. It’s not an accident that really big things are often done by the most troubled people,” he said at the time. “If you start looking for the good people who do good art, the conversation ends very quickly. All great things seem to be done by people who are somehow out of order in one way or another.”
“Art is in its good essence – it is morally good. No matter where you are coming, if you are putting this particular force in the world, then it is for your improvement. That’s why I don’t care particularly where my art comes from,” he added. “It doesn’t bother me if someone uses a ‘for Britain’ badge [Morrissey] Or it is an anti -Semitic or whatever it is and is doing extraordinary music. At some level, I don’t care. It’s not that I agree with your policy, which I don’t agree, I just think what they are putting in the world [com música] It is essentially good and should be encouraged. ”
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