Maybe I’ve been doom scrolling for too long
Maybe I’ve been doom scrolling for too long
On a similar note, I'm constantly afraid of consuming non-internet media too quickly, too often, or while I'm in the wrong emotional state because I'm afraid it'll all just turn into meaningless stimulating mush like social media. So I'll put off certain books, movies, and shows for months or even years.
countless
Billions
Pick one
Count to a billion in your head right now. No taking breaks and tell me when you finish.
Done
it says countless billions
as in
too many billions to count
/r/im14andthisisdeep
the truth is out there
I remember most internet images I've seen though
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this seems like one of the things telling you not to be an artist
and idk if that's a particularly useful message
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After looking at the whole piece, I'm still not convinced. The ending lines seem to be an attempt to wrangle a positive message out of an unrepentantly unpalatable conclusion, it feels tacked on. And I frankly don't really buy it. Kinda just seems like the whole thing is anti-art at the basic level.
The implication that Art is rendered worthless merely by having to exist in a world that contains a capitalistic system strikes me as inherently opposed to the point of art in the first place. Of course as an aspect of capitalistic desire is thrown into art, we live under capitalism, it is thrown into everything. I do not think that just because Art can no longer exist without pacifying that force it is rendered entirely worthless, and i think to say that is to defunct whatever worth art could potentially have.
If Art requires a total vacuum of influence in order to be meaningful as it seems to imply, then surely Art itself is not valid enough to actually provide meaning in the first place. And that conclusion I reject.
I think the implication the author’s going for is that art is rendered worthless when it is catered specifically to the capitalist system. There’s plenty of references throughout to the “impulse to create” and to calming internal anxiety by making art, it’s clear that they see inherent worth in the process. But it’s important you don’t mistake that for the things that are peripheral to the art itself - pleasing hordes of strangers, being perceived as an artistic genius - because they aren’t interchangeable and you’ll suffer internal consequences if you try to substitute the second for the first.
i understood it as saying that u should share ur art through mediums other than the internet cuz that makes it more meaningful when someone sees it
Damn that actually kicks ass