except when it's the best stuff ever
― i will FP you and your entire family (rip van wanko), Sunday, 7 June 2020 13:15 (three years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/08/magazine/what-do-we-mean-when-we-call-art-necessary.html
The prospect of “necessary” art allows members of the audience to free themselves from having to make choices while offering the critic a nifty shorthand to convey the significance of her task, which may itself be one day condemned as dispensable. The effect is something like an absurd and endless syllabus, constantly updating to remind you of ways you might flunk as a moral being. It’s a slightly subtler version of the 2016 marketing tagline for the first late-night satirical news show with a female host, “Full Frontal With Samantha Bee”: “Watch or you’re sexist.”
― j., Monday, 15 June 2020 16:11 (three years ago) link
I LOVE music. I’ve essentially dedicated my life to it.. but no song has ever changed the world, not even “We Are The World”— mrk (@MerkSays) June 17, 2020
false
― j., Wednesday, 17 June 2020 20:51 (three years ago) link
What the hell is “changing the world” anyway
― all cats are beautiful (silby), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 21:01 (three years ago) link
true
― j., Wednesday, 17 June 2020 21:02 (three years ago) link
You must ain’t never heard “OLD TOWN ROAD” 🙄— OG $ILKY PSALM ONE 👩🏾🔬 (@PsalmOne) June 17, 2020
― Dig Dug the police (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 21:06 (three years ago) link
I have heard tell of a guitar that kills fascists.
Are you suggesting that this is not so?
― Okay, Boomerang (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 18 June 2020 00:46 (three years ago) link
lol this thread is an ilx first mention for “Effective Altruism”. The original article has disappeared, so THANK GOD for the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.
https://web.archive.org/web/20140322045146/http://aeon.co/magazine/living-together/art-is-a-selfish-waste-of-time-says-effective-altruism/
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 2 December 2022 23:52 (one year ago) link