Bad Art Friend

[entertainment]

Who is this person ready to stake their livelihood on their thoughts being sufficiently interesting as for other people to pay money for them. It's only after finding that the thoughts are actually interesting enough to afford the concession that the thoughts are actually interesting that the disposition towards a writer can turn positive.

Maybe this is a very danish way of thinking, I don't know.

 

[Corpsey]

I think the appetite for something like this article Bad Art Friend is more about the sense of superiority it produces in the reader over these obviously delusional and shitty but more importantly miserable and unfulfilled people.

Interesting. I read a similar analysis of Succession recently - that it placates the proles by letting us think the super rich are all 1) evil 2) miserable. When actually they're laughing and dancing on a big pile of hoarded dubloons.

 

[Clinamenic]

I can see value in this kind of public therapy way of communicating, as I've engaged in here. But it seems people can over-feel things, just as I am prone to over-think things. Halfway through the article and I have trouble understanding why Dorland took such offense.

 

[Clinamenic]

I think much of this progressive academia milieu can be said to over-feel and over-think.

 

[Clinamenic]

But I also believe we as a swarm need our outlying nodes, variance across the units being like an evolutionary hedging strategy.

 

[luka]

Dorland was a person who is sneered at and marginalised by the Liberal Elite, the people whos respect and friendship she had been trying to gain not realising it was impossible because she is inherently the wrong type of person. its natural that she was hurt by this realisation.

The Brooklyn Cultural Mafia thread is also about this which is why Gus is drawn to the story.

 

[luka]

luckily i was ostracised by them aged about 11 so i've never had any illusions on that score. fear them, shun them, hide from them. that's my policy.

 

[Clinamenic]

Yeah and right away the article mentioned some childhood trauma, so I guess theres no accounting for that, from an outsider's perspective.

 

[luka]

I Love Music is the Liberal Elite.

 

[Clinamenic]

You've lost me.

 

[luka]

it's just another forum founded by oxford graduates but now most populated by ivy league grads

 

[luka]

their thread on the electrion when trump got in is the most amazing historical document ive ever seen. its the real-time crumbling of all liberal certainties

 

[Clinamenic]

Oh ILM, as in our unworthy nemesis forum?

 

[luka]

thats correct yes

 

[Clinamenic]

Are we the "alt" to ILM's "normie"?

 

[WashYourHands]

knee deep in detox hellscape, does this have anything to do with hubris?

Seamus Heaney said something akin to working for a living and art being a grace, so a bad art friend must infer a parasitical culture vampire/positioner who compromises art itself through hubris and greed

same as it ever was, pimps only function “because they inhere in the worth of the principals and define them”

 

[luka]

what are you detoxing from?

 

[luka]

Are we the "alt" to ILM's "normie"?

no, we are just a different type of normie. liberal, without being elite.

 

[WashYourHands]

Reams of care-plans

 

[luka]

no, we are just a different type of normie. liberal, without being elite.

a few rungs down the status ladder.