Oh shit that was me 😂 I was responding to a question from Brady (swan)
ChatGPT-4 is out
I think this is still true, that the barrier to entry for collecting the highest quality physical art is exponentially higher than collecting the highest quality music or literature, if you simply want to experience it. What can be done about this? I think the only real solution is to try and increase the total number of art masterpieces that exist in the world through art patronage. The greatest living artists in the world can lower the barrier to entry (most importantly: without compromising on quality), if they are supported.
“It is the dignity of the poet or of the composer that his product is immaterial. What he makes can go direct to the poor, to any poor man with wit to understand it. Whether it be the young Masefield treasuring his copy of Paradise Lost in a shoddy American boarding-house, or the Arab in an unfurnished desert carrying his songs, which the Emir Feisul has promised Colonel Lawrence to collect for the benefit of the Occidental student, or the Irish peasant, reputedly revelling in the beauties of exuberant language, we do not lack proofs for the democracy of the art of fine speech, as contrasted with the luxury of the painter's wares.
In the case of poetry it is the thing itself, not an oleograph or a photo-reproduction which goes to the man on the veldt, to the Ceylon planter, to the errand boy in a Manchester slum. Given the love of the thing, given an inclination to care for the best, poverty is no bar, remoteness is no bar, to possession.
On the other hand, a knowledge of pictures is confined to the people who live in a few great cities or who can afford visits to great galleries and current exhibits. All of which creates a modus of appreciation and appraisement for painting very different from the usual modus of appreciation of literature.”
— Ezra Pound, Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts p. 137
Haha yeah I had a similar experience: it does work eventually, but it’s not perfect performance right out of the gate. You have to wrestle with it a bit
Twitter reminded me that El Salvador has been buying 1 BTC per day since 11/18/2022
To me this is the ideal way to orange pill someone, just a pure demonstration of what it can do
Awesome, I’d love to hear what you think! There’s a wide range of styles but I haven’t tried enough to know what the sweeter ones are like, for example.
I had thought of it as “just cooking wine” too and then one day I tried it and was like, Hey wait a minute I actually like this way better than red/white wine!
Twitter fell off a cliff for me ever since the For You tab appeared. I still rely on content that exists only in Instagram and YouTube but maybe 90% of my social media time is on Damus
Beautiful, thank you for sharing!
Hey we still have Linotype machines, but just barely