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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@eli_schiff It is not profitable in the angsty and idealistic way most people do it. "I am a beautiful mind, society owes me a comfy living"1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@eli_schiff sure, that sort of thing is definitely part of it.
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