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I've been thinking about this recently, about what art would look like in a world where we didn't have to struggle to survive, if somehow we could expend all our efforts on seeing our creativity to reality without sharing that focus with profit motives and the threat of an empty stomach. I don't know my history or many names, but I feel like we've never had that reality really practiced before. It might be true that during earlier artistic periods like the Baroque or Romanticism era's or whatever that an artist could be sponsored, live on an estate and have their lives paid for, but I assume even they had pressures to be on-task regularly, and/or paint something their patron would like. back to the topic at hand, we have rich executives of today are the closets we've come to that: they could retire and never have to work again, but instead are taking cracks at making movies. Some amount of that feels like they're making an investment to get back profits more than participating in something creative, I think these are the main people you're talking about. For others it feels like they would be better off just giving their money away rather than embarrassing themselves... For the latter kind of people, I have a pet theory, that I haven't been able to formulate to words with evidence and etc., that the kind of person that's willing to make the kinds of sacrifices and priorities in order to make money is the kind of person that can't make really excellent art. but then I've been having lots of internal back and forths internally about what art can be or should be. Like, there's plenty of things I'd call art, and good art even (depending on your definition of art: does it make me feel strong emotions? get me to really think? yes and yes and more). But some of these things are amateurish: they seem ill-conceived, or made with an inexperienced hand. If I can feel this way about these attempts, shouldn't I be able to have similar feelings about this corpo stuff? they're both a form of trash, but one feels charming and the other feels lifeless. Maybe the difference is in how much I can feel the artist in the work: high budget trash stuff is very by the numbers, you can see that they were going for mass appeal rather than saying something. but low budget trash, each mistake was left behind for a reason, because it says something about the auteur's priorities and interests, or that they only need the blood or monster or special effects to look special _enough_, and what is enough isn't just about maximizing a profit calculation, but something about where they're coming from, the story they want to tell, stuff like that. Sorry for the wall of text, but you got me thinking lots. Thanks! Looking forward to your next vid

Robin!