Wow, that was a lot of responsibility laid on your average person. As an artist, I have experienced passion, the pressure of success, the burnout, worldly ambition, joy of working for myself, and utter disinterested periods of artist’s block. I think the most valuable part of work is to structure to our days and give discipline.. idle hands are the devil’s workshop and all that. The truth is that not everyone has a burning creative desire and Liu would not have won a medal without the previous years of forced practice.
I totally agree with you. Structure provides the scaffolding that lets serendipity emerge. And, as Saul Bellow wisely said, “You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
These quiet contradictions (i.e. discipline is freedom, less is more, etc.) are all essential paradoxes that together make up the artist’s repertoire.
Given how fast things are moving across atoms, bits, and bytes, marking something as
"safe from Al" is as good as forecasting next year’s weather.
All that to say, there are no rules (there never really were, if we’re being honest) and we ought to pursue that productive, moral, well-ordered pursuit which makes us feel most alive.
I find this quote from C.S. Lewis about living in the atomic age eerily pertinent: “If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things—praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts—not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They may break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds.”
Wow, that was a lot of responsibility laid on your average person. As an artist, I have experienced passion, the pressure of success, the burnout, worldly ambition, joy of working for myself, and utter disinterested periods of artist’s block. I think the most valuable part of work is to structure to our days and give discipline.. idle hands are the devil’s workshop and all that. The truth is that not everyone has a burning creative desire and Liu would not have won a medal without the previous years of forced practice.
I totally agree with you. Structure provides the scaffolding that lets serendipity emerge. And, as Saul Bellow wisely said, “You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
These quiet contradictions (i.e. discipline is freedom, less is more, etc.) are all essential paradoxes that together make up the artist’s repertoire.
From the Bhagavad Gita to Nietzsche - genius!
Does the hobby need to be physical? Are thought-based hobbies (such as writing these fantastic pieces of yours) safe from AI?
Given how fast things are moving across atoms, bits, and bytes, marking something as
"safe from Al" is as good as forecasting next year’s weather.
All that to say, there are no rules (there never really were, if we’re being honest) and we ought to pursue that productive, moral, well-ordered pursuit which makes us feel most alive.
I find this quote from C.S. Lewis about living in the atomic age eerily pertinent: “If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things—praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts—not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They may break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds.”