I don't have a link and can't be bothered to look it up.

Also somebody called it a "woke Jordan Peterson lecture" which made me wonder whether somebody is doing the whole jungian "helping young people to self-actualize" grift but without the reactionary baggage. Won't be surprised there's demand for that.

  • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    That collective approach used to live on in folk art to some degree, and remnants of it are still found in subcultures heavy on the DIY aspect. After the mid 20th century move towards superstar cults, high "production values" and a complete commercialization and commodification of cultural production, i'd argue there's been a strong countermovement in scenes like punk, hip hop and techno, in online communities centered around user-created content (memes, fanfiction, video essays etc.), in indie game development and so on. When i look at music production in particular, making and distributing your own recordings has never been easier and more egalitarian. We could easily live in the most creative society of all times if we'd get rid of media corporations and IP laws.

    • Anemasta [any]
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      3 years ago

      I feel like there's a deeper problem here than corporations and IP law. A century ago my horrible screeching over a guitar might have been the best music people around me were going to get without a hussle of traveling to a music hall or something. Nowadays all of the world's best music is a button press away. Same with the other forms of art.

      That's one of the things I like about ttrpgs. My friends can easily play much better games than stupid prototypes that I concoct in Unity, they can read better books than my half-baked short hard sci-fi stories. Sure, they might partake out of politeness and I don't judge, I've been on the other end. But when I'm GMing they have no better choice than to deal with all the stupid shit that I've came up with or at least until they've made AI GMs.