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I suspect the humanities version of hands-on tinkering is high-brow connoisseurship. They read the edgy novels, watch weird cinema, listen to fringe music etc. I just wait for the scalable subset of artistic techniques to show up in MCU movies and middlebrow TV.
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It’s early adopter but for artistic innovation. Just like tech geeks are willing to put up with janky apps, tools, and devices so long as they push the tech envelope a bit.
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I can consume the early stage art, I just don’t find the payoff worth the effort. Kinda like how normies could probably learn to use Linux, push come to shove, but don’t find the payoff worthwhile. They just use the phone app.
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That’s exactly it, though I myself had phases where I got into exploration of weird art and literature; it’s a hobby from my teenage years I picked up while influenced by the art of music sampling. But as I grew up I got more into trial-and-erroring shape rotation. Now pay offs.
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It's only when you consume a truly vast amount of art that the novelty of experimentation becomes valuable for its own sake. The rest of us appreciate filtering new artistic styles and techniques for those experiments that worked.
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