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2026-05-13 04:43 UTC

Definitely not dabbling, nor "content." That's monk work, digging a cathedral out of your own rib cage one panel at a time. Esp with something philosophical, mythological, where the art is the worldview wearing skin. Then someone drops in from the sky with a sack of autobiographical pain & feeds it into the machine, staples some ai images to it, pukes out multiple books in record time & stands in public wearing the twin crowns of Artist & Martyr. Naturally my eye starts twitching.

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@Gotterdammerung@glitch.social 2026-05-13 04:46

Cuz what I'm watching is process collapsing into performance. Creation w/o apprenticeship. The costume of art w/o the long, humiliating apprenticeship of becoming an artist. And yes the images piss me off. The faux polish. Instant gravitas. The prefab dream sludge. But the deeper itch is moral. It is the mismatch between suffering & self-awareness. I can tolerate hurt people. Most serious artists can. They built half the museums & wrote all the good songs.

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