Free Content is Cool, but Artists Are Dying of Exposure
It's freezing out here, someone throw me a nice warm money blanket
Aw-rite guvnor? Got a quid? You ain’t got a quid? Fair enough, got a like? One little like, go on guvnor, it’s freezin’ out ‘ere, bloody cramped in this bin, have an ‘eart, click the ‘eart, costs you nothin’ guvnor, go on…
Should artists be paid?
Wait, I have another way of saying that.
Should artists be fed? Should they be housed? Should they even be tolerated? Messing up the world with their wasp-sting questions and chain-clanking melodies and finger-biting beauty. Breaking through our comfortable thoughts with their smash-the-desks dance, their trepanning into the sap of deep wisdom. Should they be fed for showing us new ways of being? No, of course not! Stamp the rats out!
Artists? They’re a nuisance. Starve them! It’s traditional. Let’s make every one of you meat for the sausage machine. Flip burgers. Make cold calls. Turn “pain points” into profit. Be too exhausted at the end of the day to create. Arts BAD, STEM GOOD, because we don’t want you THINKING. L…
