Category: Essay

  • Acting Against Our Own Self Interests

    ## Against Our Own Self Interests I think this is the thing that confuses me the most. If you think about everything that went into building cities, governments, currencies, etc, it’s hard to believe that people are, time and time again, convinced to go against their own self interests.

  • Reframing Art

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    One of the worst things that’s happened to us as artists is commodification. We’ve been conditioned to see our work as products for marketing and consumption, but who could blame us? Even though people enjoy art enough to spend money on it (how capitalism defines “value”), making a living from making art is difficult. Artists…

  • Why Is Social Media Such A Wreck?

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    The internet can do for us what the printing press did for the protestant reformation: we can learn to communicate, work together and solve problems that affect our communities, especially problems that relate to power. So why hasn’t it? Why is it that even with a technology as equalizing and revolutionary as the internet, do…