Without passion. And create art. Doing what you love by being yourself. Other people define and say you will follow your heart. Happy and free, not love your art and by inspiring people letting others tell you you can change the world.
It’s by Jasmine Kay and was exhibited at the University of Texas at Austin:
Installation piece made from vinyl
Location: Pillar in the stairwell of the UT Austin Art Building was up for two weeks
While walking into the building, this [the “art is pointless” side] is the first side to be seen.
My guy, all jobs are ultimately pointless if you look at it from the biggest perspective. The best that they can do is to make someone happier, which art does by adding meaning and beauty to people’s lives.
Edit: additionally, we actually have enough for everyone, and most conventional jobs ultimately end up exploiting the shit out of nature and humanity for the benefit of the rich. Art is fine.
I would honestly say that the creation of art is more important than most current jobs in society.
Art is what I really live for, most of everything is either about survival, comfort, or convenience. Remember, most of the entertainment you consume is a form of art, from videogames, to tv shows, to youtube videos, to books, to drawings, to stories.
Without art, life would have much less meaning for me.
So are about half of the white collar office roles, so will about half of general warehouse labor with the robotics coming in, including multiple humanoid competitors.
When 30%+ unemployment is the new normal within the decade, will you still side with system of the gluttonous owners who tell us to fight to the death in tribute to their greed? Will you declare that a third of the population dying in the streets as just lazy and not the dwindling employed’s problem?
For me, I would side with the employers and technological advancement. Reason being that I prefer not to be viewed as an old man scared of new things and being stuck in the past.
That and the fact that the future is always inevitable.
A group of people that willingly leave a sizeable portion of its members to die is the opposite of a society.
And technology is benign, and could be used for everyone’s benefit when combined with taxation on automation and UBI, so that society could benefit from technological advancements, and not just the sociopathic capital hoarders.
That person has been dead for thousands of years. We don’t really know anything about them. But whenever I look at this picture, I’m reminded that this was made by a human who once walked on this same Earth, drank water, breathed air, ate animals and plants, just like you and I. It was made by a human with a beating heart, emotions, beliefs and opinions.
Can AI make impressive and beautiful things? Sure! But those things have very little value to me, because when I look at them, I can’t think about the emotions and opinions the artist wanted to capture. I have molded pieces of clay into pots and painted them, just like my ancestors have done for thousands of years. A robot doesn’t have ancestors.
To you, art is simply something nice to be consumed. To me, art is a mortal human’s attempt to capture the vast greatness of the whole cosmos and leave a legacy that will survive the rise and fall of multiple civilisations and eras.
These are the glimmers of a human race I could respect and even feel pride to be a part of rather than shame.
Hoarding capital profit at the direct expense of your fellow man, ie our global economy? Not so much. Burn all the sociopathic, dehumanizing capital markets to the ground and nothing of actual value will have been lost.
Long term, the human race would wonder why we tolerated them for so long, demanding we remain one another’s enemies, working against each other selfishly trying to get mooooooore than the the next person, leaving our brothers and sisters to die in the streets for the sin of being sub-optimal capital batteries, not even mentioning what they do to our shared, solitary, irreplaceable habitat without a second thought.
As it is, most of us are coerced to act more like mindless insects slaving for an uncaring queen than individuals with intrinsic value and a need to self-express.
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