Jake Ēkiss: The natural endpoint to removing any mandatory arts education is that the only people who know anything about art are the folks who are self-motivated to make it. This is bad for a number of reasons, but selfishly, it makes it way easier to convince people that artists don't actually do anything.

The natural endpoint to removing any mandatory arts education is that the only people who know anything about art are the folks who are self-motivated to make it. This is bad for a number of reasons, but selfishly, it makes it way easier to convince people that artists don't actually do anything.

Was listening to a Sixty Minutes segment on AI. The host made it do a short story based on "for sale, baby shoes, never worn" and could not shut up about how good the result was even though it was pure soulless drivel. Think a big key to this racket persisting is not knowing what real writing is.

I shall once again tap the sign: American culture hates art, but loves media. Hates science, but loves technology. Hates ethics, but loves feeling justified. It hates the process, and the producers, but loves the commodity at the end.

I also say, we love our shiny consumer goods, but generally could give less than a shit about the workers who built them

Just look at the rhetoric that’s used whenever paying food workers more comes up

All the same deal. It's no wonder our culture is so obsessed with "consumers", the only priority we're told to really think of is what we want to devour next. The US has a culture for locusts.

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