Given that Canadians don’t typically vote in American elections, I don’t see how that has anything to do with us or should affect our decision making.

The USA is tariffing us, not just the red states.

Also just as an observation: monotony is boring and I think aversion to boredom is a big reason people seek different things (maybe even things that require more skill to perform). Who wants to dance the same dance their whole life?

I feel like people in the past were as susceptible to being bored that we are – maybe even more because there were a lot fewer things to actually do back then.

I think I get the point they’re making, but eeehhh? I don’t think “art is something inherently human” and “you can (and maybe even should!) be improving your abilities in art” are in conflict with each other. Humans have been able to make art for as long as we’ve been human, but we’ve also had an implicit understanding of seeing two pieces of art and picking which ones we preferred in the moment. Capitalism didn’t really change that, we’ve had masters and apprentices since antiquity.

Couldn’t we say that the desire to make better art and the anxiety that comes with examining your own progress just as easily be called a behaviour unique to humans?

(Edit: writing that last part made me come up with the image of bees that have imposter syndrome about how they build their hives and I don’t know how to feel about that)

“nobody wants to work anymore”

1940

Lmao not even World War 2 is enough for people to stop trodding out this line

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