To everyone down voting and assuming this is ragebait, I would ask we take a step back. I think this is a genuine question and I can’t help but feel a bit heard that someone is asking it.
In the midst of all this ridiculous culture-warring, creators have a ton of anxiety now. It’s one thing to be afraid your creation will get you laughed at for being cringey, (as if that’s not a huge barrier already).
But it’s another entirely when it feels like in this era of “all art is political”, writing anyone who has recognizable human qualities will forcibly put you, the creator, into some ideological category where you’ll be scrutinized and judged personally based on your work’s perceived “agenda.”
The right with their relentless “woke-hunting”, the left with their “purity tests” to blame you for not championing their particular social cause. Showing your art seems to inevitably involve chumming the waters to the terminally online. This can also produce anxieties of being doxxed or something if it’s high profile enough.
That being said: My heart is warmed by all the overwhelmingly level headed responses in this thread. Seriously. It gives me hope.
Please notice I said FEELS a lot up there…Our perception is definitely muddied by how social media tends to megaphone the worst of society, and it tends to discourage us from being seen or interacting with others.
I’m glad threads like this demonstrate how genuine people can be. It provides quite a contrast.
That’s what I was thinking!
Yeh yeh, I get it, Lemmy, we’re all wageslaves now and religion is Absolutely Always Bad™ /s…but objectively here…
Things like churches and temples were for everyone to commune and worship and gather. They were, and still are, architectural marvels!
Any of us would be so lucky these days to feel any kind of attachment to our community, and to do some kind of work that we can look at and say “That’s there because of us.”
It’s hard for most of us to imagine, I think, because alienation from the results of our labor and each other is so wildly beyond reason in our lifetimes. Even building is essentially factory work anymore. Architecture as art is mostly dead in favor of brutalist templated concrete cubes everywhere.
Not to mention, we’re all constantly burned out and exhausted from meaningless grinds that usually amount to “Have a pulse (optional), deal with people, send emails to nowhere in particular. Produce nothing but Co2.”
But I like to think this was a positive thing. Building wonders, being a part of your community, having something to be proud of doing, like a collective hobby.
Lol I know I’m waxing romantically whilst likely being very inaccurate, I’m not historian, but I also think we can take the best notions of the past to make the future less awful…