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from the ‘consumer story’ to the ‘citizen story’

Going through this upheaval has helped me discover that it’s actually much easier to simplify your life in order to do something you love, than it is to be miserable at a job you don’t like, spending all your earnings on things to cope with that. My new life now is very local and offline, making it simpler and slower.

it’s about practising mindful and healthy habits in the face of information overabundance.

Instead, art and culture have been safely neutralized as interchangeable commercial objects just like everything else.

At its best, cultural criticism is love and art that exists to give love to other expressions of art. It’s beautiful in its indulgence. A positive feedback loop that gives everybody exactly what they desire. Gods, scribes, muses, an audience, a culmination. This is what we want out of art. Something that feels grand, meaningful, connected to the ages. That doesn’t happen on its own. It needs context, dedicated space, deeper knowledge, appreciation.