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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• about 4 years ago

it’s not that art is important it’s that you realised everything else you could do may be more important, but it’s fine, because nothing is really that important

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• about 4 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

what am i trying to say here? - that art isn’t actually as important, in a sense, on the scale on which you are comparing it to other things - that still means it is ok to do - that doesn’t mean you have to cope by inflating its worth artificially https://t.co/bvLPN6gNtC

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• about 4 years ago

the same way we say “the charnel ground is the pure land” i want to say something like “the small is the large” https://t.co/K90m2ZtXJK

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• about 4 years ago

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im also saying - art is actually tremendously more important than those things of impact, measured on a different scale - that there are these multiple scales, the large and the small, and they all interplay, and make everything different sizes https://t.co/i6g8Fo6uai

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• about 4 years ago

You read a sentence on a truck like “We keep the lights on for safety” and it activates a whole world of what it must mean for people to get annoyed at that and the dynamics of responding. It is wholly reasonable to be so moved by it. There is a world in every felt sense.

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• about 4 years ago

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art is bigger on the micro scale. and smaller on the macro scale. these statements are both true relativism does not destroy all notions of discernment we don’t need to make all things the same

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• about 4 years ago

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sometimes art can be big on the macro scale too. sometimes impact can be huge on the micro scale it’s complicated

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• about 4 years ago

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why am i trying to say this? - i want to convey something about, “yes, you are doing something unimportant in a sense by deciding to create art” - “and actually, yes, this is fine, here’s why (important on different scales)”

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• about 4 years ago

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because i think that justification leads to less friction and less of a tight (false) grip on reality https://t.co/OvJPTxsIFY

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• about 4 years ago

@reddy2go i defend people’s rights to an ugly cope but if it causes them to tighten their grip on truth more than loosen i have a small preference their cope be a more beautiful one https://t.co/rIkV5Mndpi

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• about 4 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

version 2 of this thread https://t.co/fjgBItG2qo

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• about 4 years ago

thinking about the budding artist, struggling with responsibility to do something with more impact, instead of go make art

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