#truth pill

[naiamaree]

ART AND MONEY MUST BE KEPT SEPERATE. I've been posting about this for years but I feel the need to make one last definitive take on it. Randomly I stumbled upon the "artistslounge" subreddit (and by junction the "artbusiness" and "artmarketing" subreddits). Somehow that shit is even more depressing then /ic/ or discord. endless renderf**s wondering why they cant get any attention or money out of their work, missing the point completely that AI has killed detail intensive illustration and really most styles altogether in commercial use anyway. unless you are dedicated to clout chasing and trend chasing ACTUALLY 24/7 you are probably unmarketable. either that or dumb luck/ being part of an incestuous discord group of artists with follower counts in the 1,000-20,000 range that jack each other off by reblogging each others le epic and serious furry paintings. even then you are maybe getting a few commissions, private installations, or gallery opportunities. you are not going to be the new andrew hussie or toby fox. the indie boom has been dead for 10 years and the "indie art" market is deeply oversaturated. THE INDUSTRY IS DEAD. call me blackpilled but letting go of all of this in early 2023 improved my work so much and my relationship to it too. when I have the time and the energy I work on projects and I make things that I am proud of. it earns me no money and I have no fame, success, anything, I'm just another poor person, but I actually have an active imagination again that is churning with creativity all the time. my internal world is richer even if my wallet is perpetually empty

[sugartitty]

[cyruspavels]

Truth Pill 💊

Some people need structure and others do much better without any. 

I don’t pretend to know why  But I am also sure that human nature is not meant to do well contained in boxes of any form. 

By “boxes of any form,” I mean that everything you know Fits into a box,  And no,  Not a literal box,  But a real box. 

Take government,  For example.  The box is all the rules and laws and regulations laid out the same way a jail cell is laid out, the same way that your neighborhood is laid out, the same way that your apartment building is laid out. Boxes. Even the windows within these boxes are more boxes, remember? 🪟  

The School System also fits into boxes of rules and regulations and rooms where someone else tells you when you must sit, be quiet, write, and when you are free to leave. Defy and see where they take you to keep you intimidated enough to learn not to ask questions. 

Oh, and if you need to use the bathroom you must ask for permission, too. 

Institutions are the same. See the boxes all around you now? 

Even multiple choice questions contain boxes because the wrong answers are also predetermined. They give you a result to these tests that they think will mean something more than the wrong answers you chose because those had meanings behind the psychology of why someone would gravitate to a choice. What kind of quirks or learning disabilities they have, sure. But unless you read more, you’d have very little idea if I dove into. Still, the point is that those choices they provided you have limites, so they are boxes too. 

If you’ve watched The Matrix films then refer to the point in the movie after he takes the pill from Morpheus and right before he passes out as he is in disbelief of what he is just told. 

For some people,  The truth is scary,  So they never go to that point that Neo went to after swallowing the truth pill. 

Do you want to go there? 

CP’23

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