Mastodawn

RE: https://mastodon.social/@kviksilver/116286871350643627

Creative industries thrive on the eagerness of the young apprentices to be a part of something they’ve always deeply admired. So many of them have become machines that take that youthful enthusiasm, crush it in the mill of productivity, discard anyone who burns out, and call the rest the distilled product. Then the cycle repeats itself as those who made it through the crucible take over.

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Guy English

But the process didn’t distill the best talent. The greatest ideas. The most creative work. It simply reinforced the established structure, way of doing things, and failure modes baked into the system. Creative industries are, somewhat ironically, abusively conservative when it comes to the process they demand from their members.