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We have to stop CONSUMING our culture. We have to CREATE culture.
| This is shit-brained, this kind of thinking. That is all cultural diversion. What is real is you, and your friends, your associations, your highs, your orgasms, your hopes, your plans, your fears. And, we are told No, you're unimportant, you're peripheral — get a degree, get a job, get a this, get that, and then you're a player.
| You don't even want to play that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.
| But whats gonna happen on attack on titan tho
| I generally agree. A population is more independant when they have more creators than mindless consumers. Not only more independant, but more a more free society.
| I am 14 and this is deep
| >What is specialization?
To a certain extent, everyone creates culture, but you're a rambling dummy.
| >>399935
Do we really?
Obvs this is an anecdote, but sometimes I run into people who answer "so what do you do for fun/hobbies/life" with "nothing."
Like... they're so dead inside that all they can find in themselves to do is to clock in to work and clock out. Even when they do find free time it's usually to watch tv, browse facebook, or spend all their money on drink... which, ironically, leads to one of the excuses for not committing to hobbies even if they're interested.
| Surely it can be argued that, for these people, they aren't "creating" anything in the slightest- neither for themselves or others. They're just pure consumers.
| >>399988 >I run into people who answer "so what do you do for fun/hobbies/life" with "nothing."
They probably don't wanna get into it. I do a lot of stuff you'd probably classify as "creating culture", and I'd 100% answer this to most people. Also, there's not much point in people making nice things if none will consume/enjoy them imo.
>>399989 No more Nietzsche for you.
| Tfw culture is a finite resource.
| >>400016 I guess it gets old at one point and losses it's meaning? Like if you watch a movie 10 times you won't probably suck out any more useful information after the 3Rd time right? And when this specific movie patten gets repeated a couple of times it no longer has value (looking at you action movies)
| shut the fuck up dickhead
| I recommend reading OP's post in screensavers voice lol
In all seriousness, they do make great points. When we focus on symbols and celebrities, we can't focus on ourselves. Art is dying because of it, culture is dying because of it, and we are already dead because of it.
| Tfw I want to create a webcomic but I cant draw and I'm already too old and ashamed and also webcomics are a dime a dozen and utterly forgettable and wont be recognized as culturally significant unless they get homestuck big
| >>400819
you're making excuses not to do something you want to do.
if you can put a pen to a piece of paper, you can draw.
why are you ashamed of creating something if it will be forgettable?
get to it and make that webcomic g/u/rl, even if it ends up being terrible.
jake says it best:
https://youtu.be/DN43sCyEanA
| >>400856 to be fair you can make something great as long as you have an idea or something like that, take GradeA UnderA as an example: his videos were made with mspaint and windows movie maker, and he became pretty popular on youtube
| Not everyone is creative. And without consumers there wouldn't be a demand for the stuff creative people produce. The world doesn't need more shit-tier art.
| Yo, g/u/rls talking about art being shitty.
Sounds like you have a personal grudge.
That's not very creative.
Talent =/= good.
Bad =/= no talent.
Oh. Oh wow (|||ﾟдﾟ)
>>400856 is the deal!
>get to it and make that webcomic g/u/rl, even if it ends up being terrible.
This ^ ,this is the mindset people who can take little steps and get very far.
>>401865
Everyone is potentially creative.
Probably not in the forms of art you can think of right now.
Also TV has some creative stratagem.
| You need to be one hell of an outsider artist to create culture without consuming *any* culture.
>>399871
>if you're worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else, then you are disempowered. You're giving it all away to ICONS.
This. So. Much.
Worshipping those already powerful only shunts more power their way for free.
Fuck that.
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| DON'T watch TV, DON'T read magazines, don't even listen to NPR. Create your OWN roadshow. The nexus of space and time where you are — NOW — is the most immediate sector of your universe. And if you're worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else, then you are disempowered. You're giving it all away to ICONS. Icons which are maintained by an electronic media so that, you want to dress like X or have lips like Y...