Submitted by Wulf (not verified) on Fri, 05/10/2019 - 11:28
I remember reading John Zerzan's "The Case Against Art" and agreeing with every word, even though I was an artist! I have never made a living off art. I just couldn't sell out. Or buy in, maybe. Symbolic thought is an anchor chain, a cannon ball weight to me sometimes. I cannot express myself thoroughly and often do not wish to do so. It is painful to live in a mediated society. When I walk on asphalt or concrete I see grass and trees and sky. Perhaps I am slipping into a paleolithic past. isms make me sick. From a broken family I always seek family. Pathetic. As I get older i am more and more alone. Art is not an answer or even a question, it is a tool, and a cybernetic one these days. The artist as robot. Down with the machines. Sarah Connor (the mature one with guns, not the wide-eyed teen) is my hero. Art cannot and never could "save us." Nor can mass media or "anarchist" radio shows and plodcasts. All we can do is fight the future with fang and claw.
I remember reading John Zerzan's "The Case Against Art" and agreeing with every word, even though I was an artist! I have never made a living off art. I just couldn't sell out. Or buy in, maybe. Symbolic thought is an anchor chain, a cannon ball weight to me sometimes. I cannot express myself thoroughly and often do not wish to do so. It is painful to live in a mediated society. When I walk on asphalt or concrete I see grass and trees and sky. Perhaps I am slipping into a paleolithic past. isms make me sick. From a broken family I always seek family. Pathetic. As I get older i am more and more alone. Art is not an answer or even a question, it is a tool, and a cybernetic one these days. The artist as robot. Down with the machines. Sarah Connor (the mature one with guns, not the wide-eyed teen) is my hero. Art cannot and never could "save us." Nor can mass media or "anarchist" radio shows and plodcasts. All we can do is fight the future with fang and claw.