adam_y @ adam_y @lemmy.world

Synth noodling conceptual artist

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Oh yeah, absolutely sarcasm. Didn't think the /s was needed... But then I remember the Tories exist and this is close to actual policy.

Then those people need to be taught a lesson, stripped of any assets and be left to die a miserable death following a period of fear, homelessness and uncertainty.

The Baby Boomer phenomenon happened here too... Although class plays a large role here too. When they talk about a retirement age of 71 they are talking about the working class that are dependent on a state pension.

I think ideology plays a big role too. The Conservatives have been desperate to sell off the NHS for decades. You could argue that it has already happened. The reason for this is that, to some extent, they represent a predatory upper class.

They frequently sell off nationalised assets and cushion themselves with kickbacks, although the main purpose is to massage the perception of the economy. For example, in the 80s Thatcher brought in the "right to buy" which enabled occupants of social housing to buy their homes. Effectively privitising the safety net, which no longer exists.

A generation got to buy reasonably sound and cheap homes at the expense of the next.

Similarly the rail network was privitised, and the post office and the telecoms industry. Now we are surrounded by scandals, paying over the odds for essential utilities and getting worse service than ever before.

But a few wealthy folk got wealthier and had their tax cut, so it's not all bad.

Doing anything excessively leads to that.

What you are describing is addiction in the broadest terms and really is nothing specific to video games.

I just want to add some context as a person that's going grey.

You are still incredibly young in your 20s. There's still so much time left for you.

It's the ideal time to drop out. Think things over and find some purpose or direction.

Or not.

So much is made about knowing your course in life, when often learning to drift the right way can be far more enjoyable.

So yeah, not exactly a call to hedonism, but try to find what you enjoy and where your ambition lies then make positive steps to get there.

Starts off in English but really kicks in when it turns Welsh.

patio song by Gorkys Zygotic Mynci

Chap looks like he's been to sports direct.

Fair question.

I haven't protested about this specific issue, but I have done about others. Specifically, the erosion of human rights in the UK.

Here's a video of a performance protest we made last year:

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It's pretty blunt, it's about how wealth is used to distort rights and the meanings of language. The full thing took over four hours to read out. We held a talk and a symposium as well as educational visits with schools. I'm a big believer in education as social justice.

Hypothetically then, in their case, I would make art that engaged with the subject. Just like picasso did with Guernica, an image that still resonates the horror of war.

We are talking about the protest, not the subject of the protest.

That's one of the problem with protest stunts. They get attention but often the attention drowns out the intent.

I get that. And I broadly supported the stop oil protests that took a similar form. But I do take objection to the weird value judgement they are making.

What's worth more, art or sustainable food...

If I wanted to get complex about it I'd highlight the numerous ways in which art and sustainable agriculture have traditionally interwoven through folk practices, but I'm going to keep it simple and say that the sort of false equivalence they just used is the rhetoric of fascism.

In the UK it is frequently used to defy art that may be oppositional to political and corporate interests.

And that's it, art is, more than anything, a vector for public discussion and protest in its own right.

Their protest and the reason behind it is fine. The daft shit they said during it undermines everything else and could do easily have been avoided with a small amount of thought.

I love a good protest ... But this isn't a good protest.

What’s the most important thing?” they shouted. “Art, or right to a healthy and sustainable food?”

Yeah, no. I think in a civilised world we should be able to have both and that sort of argument is weak as fuck.

Destroy all art because it is more important that we conduct research into cot death. Oxygen is more important than art and yet look at you, with your galleries.

It's infantile posturing of probably well off middle class kids who want their Rosa Parks moment for Instagram clout.

Further to that, attempting to destroy something that essentially belongs to everyone is just going to bring negative press. How about going after something owned by the head of Nestle? No? Is that too difficult and requires too much work?

The thing I love about books are that they are machines for empathy.

You get to inhabit the lives of other people, see through their eyes and hear their thoughts.

It's an out of one body and into another body experience.

During my life I have been a pirate, a clown, a cyborg, and alien....I have been male and female and something that was neither or both.

The last thing, given the choice, I want to read about is myself. I already know that story.

Exactly!

Oh no, no need to apologise it was a pretty weak joke... But solidarity, I've had that too.

And getting asked "is everything ok?" as if we can't have kids, rather than chose not to.

And the emotional blackmail about no grandchildren.

I think it really unnerves some folk.

It was a flippant throwaway comment. I'm in my 40s, also married and also childless by choice. My partner and I being very similar to you.

I wasn't proving anything, just making a subtle joke about a parent effectively eliminating one of their children.

Start a ghost pets crusade.

"My dead cat came back last night..." and see how it goes.

It's almost always childless young men saying this.

For a truly contentious opinion I'd love to see a married woman with three kids say it.

I like the Palestinian underpants in the picture, but they look a little too large.

It isn't genocide, it's just sparkling human atrocity.