jk I'm all about that bread @danishcookies@computerfairi.es

@Dayglochainsaw And it's like, who does that serve? That exhausting and deadening of creativity into product-making?

It serves well-connected agents and big labels. Massive publishing conglomerates. It serves Amazon, Hollywood studios, and universities.

Even smaller publishers and journals and writing programs often work to maintain their elite status for financial reasons.

Creators get isolated against each other, when the best eras of human creativity involve idea sharing.

@Dayglochainsaw I agree! To add to this, if you do have one of the creative hobbies, there's this pervasive and exhausting element of competition that always creeps in.

You can't just be a writing/critique circle. There is no love, there is no art. The whole thing has to be about getting published, or who's published the most, in the most elite circles, or else getting into an elite MFA, or self-publishing with high numbers, etc etc etc Jesus Christ save us.

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There are lots of good people around who haven't read your favorite political theory. And a lot of bad people who have.

Maybe what you want isn't mastodon if you think everyone should have the same political priorities.

good morning tooters

GO UP OFF ON THAT KING

got too much shit to do forever and im stressed!!!!!!!

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@healyn uncancel me u coward!!!

@JohnBrownJr too late, youve been #cancelled

@Si1997 @JohnBrownJr and if it is authoritarian, it's not communism! communism is inherently anti-authoritarian.

@TrannyOakley lmao i think i’ve rooted that exact sentiment before