"If ONE MORE PERSON says “What if they’d medicated Van Gogh!?” I think I’m permitted to set things on fire. If they’d medicated Van Gogh, he’d either have painted twice as much, or he’d have been happy and unproductive. And you know what? Starry Night wasn’t worth a terrible price in human misery. It’s neat. It wasn’t worth it.
Sometimes I wonder if being an artist makes me jaded to ART. Because it’s not magic and it’s not mystical, it’s just paint or pixels. And it can do amazing things! But you don’t owe humanity to be miserable just so you can move paint around in interesting shapes. Jesus. Art is not some kind of Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas bargain where you agree to be miserable so everybody can go “oh! Neat!” for 5 minutes.
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Ursula Vernon, dropping the mic. [x]
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TFW strange thought experiments actually come true. First they found out that exercise acts like the smoking lesion, now we have the question of weighing decades of being a suffering artist against the possibly massive numbers of future people who might gain a little bit of value each from the art that comes from said suffering. I keep exercising, and don’t think pre-transhumans should suffer just because they might be slightly more entertaining on the margin that way. Very interesting.
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