The amount of art that was destroyed, the number of ARTISTS destroyed, was an incalculable loss that wasn't compensated for by anything
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If Holocaust references seem over-the-top, just consider that economic recessions' main effect on art is to force artists to get day jobs
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When Obamacare goes away probably 80-90% of the "indie" artists from the Internet you like will vanish because they need FTE for insurance
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The most charitable thing to say here is that if it's not actually happening TO YOU, don't go looking for the silver lining
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Someone who can't leave the country and might actually be impoverished by these policies can talk about bright sides
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If you think misery is essential to great art, 1) It's not, 2) there's still plenty of misery to go around in societies not run by fascists
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Ugh. I talk to so many people who've said their distress over what's going on in the real world has put their art on hold, maybe permanently
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If you think the upcoming eight years will be some kind of punk rock renaissance 1) I really doubt it, 2) I don't actually care
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(I don't actually think the Bush years were great for art. They sucked. Everyone being mad at the same thing sucks. It's a sucky situation)
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(The Bush years were also closer to Weimar in that they were a time of relative, more-or-less, economic prosperity at home)
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(During the Bush years, as with Vietnam, the atrocity was that we were directing misery outwards and half the country didn't notice or care)
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This time it seems likely that quite a lot of the misery will be felt at home, making people generally too busy to craft "great art"
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Does "AMANDA FUCKING PALMER" know that most of the people who regularly call her that aren't doing it in a good way
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