You: The world is dying so we might as well just give up and enjoy ourselves. Scientists: *enjoy themselves by doing science* You: Not like that! People: *enjoy the science show* You: You know you're just supporting an orthodoxy you've had inculcated in you from childhood ...
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yeah I'm pissed off about organizations *with responsibilities* that have huge war chests putting that money toward a very esoteric and fleeting circus when there's still millions of people going without BREAD, thank you for playing
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And they can eat PlayStations? That was your original point and you've said you're not moving the goalposts so I just want to check.
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Replying to @phyphor @Nymphomachy and
Also, you're getting annoyed at NASA spending money on space missions, when there's other things you prefer the money to be spent on. But I don't see why that's the fault of NASA, especially when the money isn't real.
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jesus fuck this is the problem with you in this argument you just, really, really, want for space travel to be a good thing that you can enjoy, you are pure "Let People Enjoy Things", repeatedly, and any time anything is inconvenient to that it just disappears like manpower
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @phyphor and
I don't actually give a fuck about money. Capitalism is bullshit. Money isn't real. Overcommodification disgusts me. What I care about is what money represents, what REAL, tangible energy goes into shitty projects like this that provide no justifiable returns for 99% of humanity
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Well I dunno Do you feel that way about the NEA (like Rush Limbaugh did, or at least pretended to) Their operating budget is a good 1/2 order of magnitude lower than NASA's but it's still bread and circuses
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The NEA is basically a very esoteric and wasteful substitute for UBI which is pretty much the most fundamental endowment most artists in this country need
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If you call it that you immediately generate a -- I think, very justifiable -- response from everyone else who wants a UBI that they don't see why they shouldn't get one for just *not* making art, especially if the art that gets made isn't very popular
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
yeah like this is the real gist of the problem isn't it? it's that everyone really wants to be able to do what they want, and a lot of folks go "well why are artists special?"
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In point of fact the NEA is mostly not very controversial at all and most of the money gets allocated to stuff like Shakespeare in the Park for kids, precisely to avoid this kind of thing
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
Unfortunately then they get yelled at by serious people in the art community that "There's already SO MUCH generic Shakespeare in the Park shit that gets funded through the private sector and why is your job just to give MORE money to the people who ALREADY get money"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
So then you get a Piss Christ kind of thing once in a while where they try to prove that they are real, credible artists plugged into the art community doing stuff famous educated critics think is valuable and cool Which, inevitably, provokes exactly this backlash
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