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this is Trash.

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“The art itself is basically an afterthought.”

this has always been true— certain aesthetic qualities end being up durable though and they make it into the next set. This is the second article of this type I’ve read sort of marveling over how NY scenesters aren’t actually that talented but when has that ever not been the case, you know?

Anywhere there’s money and social climbing will have ingenuousness too— even 70s punks weren’t actually down for the cause. Their hair and jackets were cool though

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The whole Dimes Square thing is fucking gay, simple as. Oh, art should be le subversive! Instead of beautiful, transcendent and true. And all the fucking language games with the memes and buzzwords, fuck you, fuck the zeitgeist, fuck your scene. Great artists are born in prisons and in the solitude of their hearts. Simple as.

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Whole sentiment is basically just "do better"

Enjoyed this piece

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do you have any examples of creatives types converting to Catholicism? I posted this on twitter as well but am going off social media for lent, so please let me know through here if you don't mind. would love to meet some of these people (I am a Brooklyn-based practicing Catholic for whom psychedelics helped bring me back to the faith)

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So you want a revival of socialist realist theater? Are you sure about that?

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Great read

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you guys are going along the same lines. they're worse than you, but they're what happens when you take your ideas to the end

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