there’s a funny dichotomy in how people talk about art online, about its unique capacity to be revolutionary + change the minds of whole societies, and also how it is uniquely vulnerable to the evils of technology and will be wiped off the face of the earth by pre-mixed paints photography photoshop AI. In either case it expresses a hilarious view of artists as the centre of the universe, a higher class of human being who have a special connection to the capital-H Human Spirit. art is somehow both impossibly durable and impossibly brittle, depending on the argument, and sometimes you can watch people argue for both positions simultaneously within the same sentence
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