When we create, it should be a process of discovery, an experience of illumination as we grope in the dark. It is this that keeps culture alive, makes art and music vital. But the capitalist system that turns art into products doesn’t need creativity - it prefers to reanimate the dead, filling the cultural space with familiar ghosts in a self-sustaining feedback loop. And so we become passive, dull, hypnotised into conformity. Now, who wants to see the new Superman movie?
I want to scream when I see shit art and shit artists that are super successful and I’m not. But you, my exetential friend, remind me that art doesn’t have to be a product. The main point is I enjoy spewing out emotion onto canvasses since 2019.
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Michaelangelo and Shakespeare got paid for their work... But at least they worked.
When we create, it should be a process of discovery, an experience of illumination as we grope in the dark. It is this that keeps culture alive, makes art and music vital. But the capitalist system that turns art into products doesn’t need creativity - it prefers to reanimate the dead, filling the cultural space with familiar ghosts in a self-sustaining feedback loop. And so we become passive, dull, hypnotised into conformity. Now, who wants to see the new Superman movie?
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I want to scream when I see shit art and shit artists that are super successful and I’m not. But you, my exetential friend, remind me that art doesn’t have to be a product. The main point is I enjoy spewing out emotion onto canvasses since 2019.
Beautiful! This essay sums up why I want to draw cartoons! LOL, I know, why do people not write comments?!
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This (and you, consistently): outlandishly compelling & incite-ful. Vividly dramatises and Rubik's-cubes AI's proliferating hype into a crystalline thesis. You've wrangled everyone else's vague pusillanimous bothsideism into an inarguable commodified culture-vs-content vista. Also: splutter-laughs. Lots.