Artists don't need to be miserable, depressed people to be great. That is a toxic myth. But art does need to be miserable and painful and scary at points to be good. There's no shortcut.

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friction doesn't just make art great, it makes art period. and there are always, always trade-offs for reducing friction.

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the idea phase is the easiest and least valuable part of professional creativity. read the first draft of the first Star Wars if you doubt me Great art is made in the grinding, often miserable collision between the ethereal substance of an idea and the mud and blood and friction of reality

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right people waiting for shit to explode and people to get their comeuppence and MAYBE it could happen, but I'm mostly here like "When does THAT ever happen???"

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The thing that bums me out is I'm kinda a pessimist with whatever inevitable crash will eventually happen like I don't think we're gonna suddenly wake up and realize all this shit is bad, we're just gonna have more layoffs and have everything get even MORE expensive while the idiots get payouts :)

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