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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I think I agree, and:
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Somehow this brought to mind the Okkervil River song, Singer Songwriter:
“You've got outsider art by an artist who arguably kidnapped a kid on your wall
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You've got taste, you've got taste
What a waste that that's all that you have”
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