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Ever notice how everyone appreciates art, but nobody appreciates artists?
How much art do we see everywhere all the time? We watch movies and tv shows, read books, look at paintings and read comic books and graphic novels, some of us listen to music at all hours of the day, and yet when our children want to persue a carreer in art, we try to talk them out of it because it’s not profitable enough.
We talk down to people who make art, tell them they deserve a low wage for choosing a career path with a low wage, and yet we need the art they make like oxygen. We want the art, but don’t want to appreciate how it got here. We think we’re just entitled to it, that it’s a given art will just magically appear out of thin air. We beg for cheap or free art from artists who are poor and starving, we romanticize their suffering and put it on display as an ideal, we suck all the life out of the artist like a vampire draining all the blood from its unfortunate victim, and then we wonder why art is disappearing.
And now, we’re even trying to make predictive algorithms to literally create art out of thin air when it’s really just making a glorified collage. It takes art that already exists and chews it up and spits it out with no thought as to whether or not the final image would be under copyright or not, and people don’t fucking care, because artists’ lives don’t matter even though we still think we’re entitled to art regardless.
You drink from the spring while cursing the snow in the mountains.
You want art without artists.
I think it’s absolutely sickening how much we’ve devalued artists while still demanding art from them. Why? How did we fall so far? Why are people who like math and science important enough to be appreciated, but the people making emotional lifeblood aren’t?
Are you prepared for the source of art to disappear? Because if you try to delete artists, art will go with it, and what will you do then?
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