Evan ProdromouYes
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Comfortably Numb@evan "Is art important?" yes
Samwise -> Hard Difficulty
Benjamin Kwiecień 🇵🇸@ben @wizardponderingorb @numb_comfortably for example!
I don't want to knock art, but I think we can engage with other people, with ideas, and with the natural world in ways that are purposeful and fulfilling which are hard to call "art".
@ben @wizardponderingorb @numb_comfortably
I recognize that some definitions of "art" extend to any meaningful act, in which case it's a tautology.
But I think there are more colloquial definitions that cover a few dozen human practices, and while they are wonderful, life is not empty and pointless without them.
@evan @ben @numb_comfortably Art has been vital to the human experience to express abstract concepts that limited languages struggle with.
So I disagree. History has shown art is intrinsic to the human experience for as long as we have creativity, outside-the-box thinking, and emotional resonance with symbols, images, and sounds.
To imagine a world where humans get on without it is a history erasing fantasy and no more than a thought exercise.
millennial fulcrum@wizardponderingorb I see no counterpoint to that.
Max Lee@ben @evan @wizardponderingorb @numb_comfortably
As someone who doesn't drink coffee: I don't get it. It's a beverage/drug that you use to achieve an effect like all the others, no? Why celebrate it? (I don't get "beer culture" or "wine culture" either, all they seem to do is cause harm)
As someone who doesn't drink coffee: I don't get it. It's a beverage/drug that you use to achieve an effect like all the others, no? Why celebrate it? (I don't get "beer culture" or "wine culture" either, all they seem to do is cause harm)