Thanks! This is really good. I recognize myself and all the cool cats of my generation … but I think the times are a-changin’ – young people today seem to have seen through our “who cares” attitudes and just look down on us in the same way David Foster Wallace once did.
What a luminous paradox this publication points out: even in a culture saturated with irony, we can still recognize the value of authenticity. Perhaps true philosophical resistance today lies not in opposing cynicism, but in preserving the capacity to feel without shame, as a small act of inner freedom.
Powerful! i think i was already on this trajectory, that is, 'sincerity over safety', due to my being "an artist", i guess.. All my life i've opted out of the social armor game, and had plenty of eye-rolls, et al. But i was not born into "an artist family" (if anything, most blocked that side of them early on) and thus did not have the consciousness that can come with it (i.e. as you discuss 'the artist' type). So for awhile i took it all way too personally (actually, i STILL do, tho now am able to step back a bit and analyze after the face). Nowadays, age age 60, i don't mind being "the fool" for daring to stand and art on the trajectory i've been on. No easy path, either! (as if any one is, eh?!)
Thanks for taking the time to speak this sort of depth!! i haven't found many email lists like yours!! Keep up the excellence!!
Thanks! This is really good. I recognize myself and all the cool cats of my generation … but I think the times are a-changin’ – young people today seem to have seen through our “who cares” attitudes and just look down on us in the same way David Foster Wallace once did.
What a luminous paradox this publication points out: even in a culture saturated with irony, we can still recognize the value of authenticity. Perhaps true philosophical resistance today lies not in opposing cynicism, but in preserving the capacity to feel without shame, as a small act of inner freedom.
Powerful! i think i was already on this trajectory, that is, 'sincerity over safety', due to my being "an artist", i guess.. All my life i've opted out of the social armor game, and had plenty of eye-rolls, et al. But i was not born into "an artist family" (if anything, most blocked that side of them early on) and thus did not have the consciousness that can come with it (i.e. as you discuss 'the artist' type). So for awhile i took it all way too personally (actually, i STILL do, tho now am able to step back a bit and analyze after the face). Nowadays, age age 60, i don't mind being "the fool" for daring to stand and art on the trajectory i've been on. No easy path, either! (as if any one is, eh?!)
Thanks for taking the time to speak this sort of depth!! i haven't found many email lists like yours!! Keep up the excellence!!
he was shitty to women so I'm thinking he wasn't able to remove himself from irony after all.