1/ The suffering artist/philosopher ideal is guardian bs. Idealism is the luxury of people who do obviously useful things.
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2/ Artists and philosophers must be *more* commerce/trade oriented than, say, startup founders or manufacturers of PCBs.
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3/ Real money buys you luxury of idealistic utopianism. Unless they are trusties, philosophers and artists tend to be hard-headed traders.
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4/ What do they sell? Relief from the existential anxiety that *they* create in the first place. The 3-part business plan for this is...
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5/ Phase 1: Existential gaslighting -- create restlessness and anxiety through art or philosophy showing people their comforting delusions
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6/ Phase 2: Show them the behaviors that bring relief -- open-ended inquiry and mindful attention in particular.
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8/ This trader approach to philosophy/art is of course for the free market. Philosophy/art inside the regulated academic is neither.
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9/ "Tenure" in any form is sort of the death sentence for philosophy or art because with comfort comes the temptation of idealism.
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10/ "Idealistic philosophy" and "Idealistic art" are oxymorons to some extent, because they retreat from reality instead of get closer to it
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