>>1087090
>I wonder what's the psychology and motivation behind retards like Adi Shankar and the like that have to screw over the source material to inject unnecessary political drivel that alienates people.
TLDR: you already know the answer if you're here, don't be an idiot. It's just a retard that hates what they have to work with, so they intentionally sabotage it to try to prop themselves up while pushing the original down. Below, how these retards are created often times.
Imagine you're in your college of choice for a degree in fine arts of some way, almost certainly there will be a class in three different key subjects:
The first one is called Critical Thinking, where you dissect embedded messages in stories, dialogue, and art to understand what is their cultural value, the implications, reading between the lines, all the implicit details of what came to generate a specific message, as well as the expected end result of this message. The intention here is to cultivate the skills necessary to grasp deeper meaning in works of art, but most fail to actually learn how to independently scrutinize things through actual critical thinking, they do, however, learn that there exists this veiled aspect where art has meaning greater than its contents.
Then, you'll have some cultural classes, that's the second key subject. Just things that expose you to culture, history, philosophy in general. This is OK on paper but hardly ever utilized, and it only serves to deepen the "intellectual connection" that these artists often feel to art. This is troubling for the third point.
Lastly, the third common subject is something called Critical Theory. Ordinarily this would just be something that is mentioned offhand in the second culture class, but it's particularly pushed in art students in modern day because it's the avant-garde thinking, it's in vogue, it's all because artists love to have meaning and love to be 2deep4u while proposing some sort of change to the world as if they're the clever ones. Critical theory simply pertains to the theory that all art, inherently, is some form of veiled criticism to their own age, often in regards to the duality of the opressed/opressive hierarchy "that we live in". Artists really like this because it poses them as deep intellectuals, and as this is pushed a lot in academia, they use this to identify each other and help the message along wherever they can in order to assist the artist phenomenon. In fact, because it's so diffused between artists already, you often don't even need to go to college to be exposed to the way Critical Theory works, you just need to have artist friends that talk to each other and share their thoughts.
So basically, we learn that artists want to ALWAYS have a message of some kind in their art (because otherwise it's not subject to Critical Thinking exercises), we learn that they COULD embed their art with tidbits of interesting culture and philosophy, but instead they focus entirely on the Critical Theory school of messages, where they veil some criticism under the story to feel smart, get other artists to pat them on the back for being so goshdarned smart, and a lot of funding because they're the intellectual ones here, don't you forget.
The cherry on top often comes from the fact that these artists are very often outsiders to the culture they interact with when they create stories like this, they intensely dislike the source because, if they didn't it's likely it was already catering to them, so they work to dismantle it using their broken method of "Critical Thinking", apply a bit of Critical Theory to seem smart and twist the work into their own style, and move along with their day. It could be argued that in the case of Adi it's just some dumb retard pushing slop because he's paid millions to pretend to be smart, so whatever he pushes people will just eat up so he barely puts the effort, but the roots of his actions all stem from Critical Theory, which is something that is pushed to hell and back in artistic academia.
Pic related is basically the essence of what happens when an outsider interacts with a culture that doesn't cater to them, they will intentionally ruin it to cater it to themselves at the detriment of everyone that was already inside.