Wakko

I used to work for a skip-level manager who openly expressed that he would not approve spending corporate funds on employee certifications, but he would approve spending money on training. He believed that employees who got the certs were more likely to take the knowledge outside the company, while those with only the knowledge were more incentivized to stay.

I exited that company less than a year later, the company itself was bankrupt less than 3 years later.

It’s cute that you think you’re being judged, kiddo.

Give it a couple decades. Maybe with experience, you’ll understand the old saying that youth is wasted on the young.

You don’t know my life, my hardships etc. don’t pretend you do.

You thinking that’s what I’m doing is why I’m saying what I’m saying.

You haven’t yet matured to the point where you understand not everything everyone else says and does is about you. Other people live rich, detailed lives that are completely unlike your own and you will never understand the huge varieties of ways the world works until you get outside your own tiny, self-centered universe.

My point is: not all art is political.

Everything is political. You have just lived such a privileged life that you haven’t been required to see why.

You have “just gotten” things throughout your life that others have had to fight for. And you now take it for granted that everyone has your same experience. Not everyone is so privileged because the people who operate the systems that benefit you, are taking far too much from others in order for you to have those privileges.

As soon as you start seeing the things that others are forced to do that you’ve never had to confront, then you will understand why everything is political. Then you will understand what a disservice you’re doing to your fellow man by not doing your part to ensure everyone else gets the privileges you already take for granted.

You should try asking yourself how artists create art. Where did that art come from that you so badly want to disconnect from the artist’s mind that produced it? What ideas is the artist expressing that you’re choosing to ignore?

What ideas did the artist also hold that are the reason the rest of human society decided that this artists art did not need to persist?

For example - These are questions that anyone involved in anything “Lovecraftian” needs to answer for themselves.

Why are conservatives always so upset at the consequences of a free market?

Y’all just cannot fathom how completely most people do not care until it directly impacts them personally.