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rawliverandgoronspice · 9 months ago

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the incredibly delicate tension between: we need art to feed us and connect us and make us feel like things have a purpose, and: art is slowly but surely making us more complacent and cowardly

#thoughts #don't mind me I'm just having very complicated thoughts about artists and how art is being weaponized by power #I have zero good answer about that because quite frankly I don't have the mental health to walk that line right now #but yeah I can't help but think I'm just Not being helpful in any way #like a lot of what I dedicated myself towards and sacrificed things for might actually be a trap #not only for me but for community and connexion #I don't think it's true in every context btw. but I think it's starting to be true in 2024 #that we are spending a lot of time cosplaying at good praxis and Correct Emotions through art without challenging stuff #at the same time I cannot blame anyone and it would be hypocritical of me to do so #this world is being made purposefully overwhelming and lonely and art is soothing and feels warmer #I do think art is good for the soul and for our humanity. I do think that truly.#but yeah I don't know how we manage to breach past art and use it as a resource for actual meaningful actions.#again perhaps it's just The Mental Illness speaking --though I don't think it's entirely that #but yeah I just... I'm just really wondering about that balance of existing beyond art #while not rejecting art as full on bourgeois distraction which imo is also reductive and reactionnary #I don't know. I'm just kind of really sad about a lot of things honestly.

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