This is jostling my brain. I am reevaluating my whole social media life in regret. But, now I see a path forward. This will take some thought to balance but I am already leaning that way. I just needed a nudge. Thanks for the nudge, bruh :)
This is so profound and hit the nail on the head. I’ve been pulling away from social media instinctively having found myself on that treadmill, the pressure to keep posting something to keep my art relevant began to cripple my paintings, always striving for a masterpiece which has become increasingly elusive. Thanks for describing it so well. 🙏🏻
What strikes me off-hand about this is how GenZ have been conditioned into thinking digital social proof is a stamp of genuine credibility and authority. People that remember the world before the internet and TikTok, YouTube or Instagram find such an idea incredibly odd or ludicrous.
We're brainwashed a culture of digital-first individuals who have lost touch with reality in some ways. There is a steep price for the Ads-based American legacy internet on well-being and social norms.
It goes way beyond we're thirsty. Everything from how younger Millennials and GenZ search, to how they travel, to how they consume and see themselves, has been glorified in a fake lens of social comparison born from an Advertising product. The first thing that strikes you about this first generation who "grew up on the internet" is how unwell in mental health, happiness, interpersonally and in emotional intelligence they are.
Social media hasn't just made them thirsty, it's fundamentally deskilled them emotionally and psychologically into being dependent on digital cues.
great comment, also "likes" or "followers" are very poor forms of 'social proof' (went into this here) ...you have to be very dumb or just lazy to care about such things. Literally anyone can simply pay for them or spam to have them. https://www.hottakes.space/p/social-proofiness-spotting-digital
Very smart. It does not help that the publishing industry rewards slightly different dopamine hits from formulaic books. Craft is very rarely rewarded these days, even by the patient. But it's the only reason worth writing, in my opinion. Quality is what I am thirsty for.
Schiller is not the always easiest read, but the enrichment that awaits the person willing to engage his or her mind with Schiller's, will not be disappointed. One of my favorite pieces of his, and relatively short, is his On Matthisson's Poems (good English translation here: https://archive.schillerinstitute.com/transl/Schiller_essays/matthison_poetry.html), in which he discusses both the poems and landscape painting. It is truly a Platonic "dialogue" in the way Schiller posits one view and then challenges it, to resolve the antinomy on a higher plane. As a photographer always studying painting and other arts as well to better comprehend a meaningful definition of Classical art, I find Schiller a brilliant and timeless if challenging resource. Responding to the failure of the initially promising French revolutionary attempt to replicate the American success, he wrote that "a great moment has found a little people," an observation we could make just as poignantly in today's systemic crisis.
You need to get people outside of your circle interested in your more substantive somehow, but you also don't want social media to be the 'be all, end all' of your platform.
I usually go for putting out clips of my longer material, but as you mentioned, it doesn't necessarily translate to more readers.
This is jostling my brain. I am reevaluating my whole social media life in regret. But, now I see a path forward. This will take some thought to balance but I am already leaning that way. I just needed a nudge. Thanks for the nudge, bruh :)
you're not alone, we all have to do this
This is so profound and hit the nail on the head. I’ve been pulling away from social media instinctively having found myself on that treadmill, the pressure to keep posting something to keep my art relevant began to cripple my paintings, always striving for a masterpiece which has become increasingly elusive. Thanks for describing it so well. 🙏🏻
What strikes me off-hand about this is how GenZ have been conditioned into thinking digital social proof is a stamp of genuine credibility and authority. People that remember the world before the internet and TikTok, YouTube or Instagram find such an idea incredibly odd or ludicrous.
We're brainwashed a culture of digital-first individuals who have lost touch with reality in some ways. There is a steep price for the Ads-based American legacy internet on well-being and social norms.
It goes way beyond we're thirsty. Everything from how younger Millennials and GenZ search, to how they travel, to how they consume and see themselves, has been glorified in a fake lens of social comparison born from an Advertising product. The first thing that strikes you about this first generation who "grew up on the internet" is how unwell in mental health, happiness, interpersonally and in emotional intelligence they are.
Social media hasn't just made them thirsty, it's fundamentally deskilled them emotionally and psychologically into being dependent on digital cues.
great comment, also "likes" or "followers" are very poor forms of 'social proof' (went into this here) ...you have to be very dumb or just lazy to care about such things. Literally anyone can simply pay for them or spam to have them. https://www.hottakes.space/p/social-proofiness-spotting-digital
"Creators are increasingly hypnotized and captured by audiences"
Matt Klein wrote about this. Nice one Adam !!!!! Cheers
Really thought provoking. I just shared on social media, which is ironic I guess...
Sharing long form ideas, full albums, etc is fine- sharing ragebait is bad :)
Very smart. It does not help that the publishing industry rewards slightly different dopamine hits from formulaic books. Craft is very rarely rewarded these days, even by the patient. But it's the only reason worth writing, in my opinion. Quality is what I am thirsty for.
The Pascal quotation rings true indeed.
Friedrich Schiller wrote, "No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite."
Love this one
Schiller is not the always easiest read, but the enrichment that awaits the person willing to engage his or her mind with Schiller's, will not be disappointed. One of my favorite pieces of his, and relatively short, is his On Matthisson's Poems (good English translation here: https://archive.schillerinstitute.com/transl/Schiller_essays/matthison_poetry.html), in which he discusses both the poems and landscape painting. It is truly a Platonic "dialogue" in the way Schiller posits one view and then challenges it, to resolve the antinomy on a higher plane. As a photographer always studying painting and other arts as well to better comprehend a meaningful definition of Classical art, I find Schiller a brilliant and timeless if challenging resource. Responding to the failure of the initially promising French revolutionary attempt to replicate the American success, he wrote that "a great moment has found a little people," an observation we could make just as poignantly in today's systemic crisis.
It's certainly a balance.
You need to get people outside of your circle interested in your more substantive somehow, but you also don't want social media to be the 'be all, end all' of your platform.
I usually go for putting out clips of my longer material, but as you mentioned, it doesn't necessarily translate to more readers.