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Art is a subset of our culture, reacting to new technological innovations, ideas, and politico-historical moments.
To decide to protect art from technology, (such as AI or NFT) is not in the spirit of art, nor the function of art: property (and protection of) is the realm of copyright and commerce.
Arguably, art can never be commerce. Art should react, not sequester.
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There exists within you an "economy of selves." However, let’s call it a community or a troupe, where each personality (or partition) with its concomitant desires proclaims its importance to running the whole self.
In such a case, to remain entire the whole must sacrifice to save the fragment.
Some parts of you must do things harmful to other parts, essentially triaging desires. The whole will always be sick (divided against itself) because of this.
The difficulty of a singular self (or universality) to emerge, or to transcend to an ideal state, is the need to either rid or harmonize discord. Optimizing the self is radically tyrannical to the self.
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The pressures surrounding us (work, economics, social, commerce) attempt to “decode” and disintegrate us under the pretense of giving ourselves back to us.
That is to say: you can’t find yourself by following the system’s logic (as it dissolves you).
More clearly, you are already “you” without capitulating to pernicious pressures and duplicitous promises.
More importantly, you already know what you are here to do (your purpose); you are looking to the system because you have not allowed yourself to embrace it.
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Capitalism is a revolutionary and destabilizing force.
So why do conservatives defend it? It maintains a sameness (of inequality) that has become traditional.
To maintain and stabilize power, destabilize everything else.
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We emit capturable data such as writing, but any AI (artificial intelligence) mimicking you is drawing from your emissions, not you.
We speak differently than we write and act differently in various contexts (code-switching).
There is still a tremendous gap between what we emit and who we are, also seen as actions versus intent judged one-dimensionally.
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Once a system has been established, there are "tolerances" that shape the energies and forms that exist within it.
These normative parameters influence how we move through the world: slowly transforming and deforming under increments of utility and efficiency.
Said another way, our pathologies are incrementally ratcheted into expressions that can be grasped, that is certain "images" or "normative outcomes" that operate with the most efficiency inside the system.
These easy-to-grasp conceptual abstractions are recognizable forms -archetypes or stereotypes as well as inches and ounces- which reduce friction by universality: to get the results you desire quickly make it easy for people to grasp your "increment."
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When a problem is too complicated, meaning it has more than facets but dynamics as well, it becomes a spinning circle.
To simplify this impossible conundrum and grant yourself agency in this dizzying world you can “square the circle": choose a point, ignore the motion, simplify the sides, and commit.
It in no way reflects reality, but it may help you feel better.
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It is not one thing that causes somebody to go to extremes.
To retroactively attempt to assign blame to one event (one facet of culture or media) releases the rest of society from the persistent, low-grade traumatization that unravels people.
Once it is systemically accepted to permit poisons as "normal," we can blame the victim.
And we must remember: most poisons offer dark pleasures, increasing the risk of dark actions.
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To give up order for chaos is to escape.
Our urge for freedom drives us from sanity (acceptance of normative order) towards psychopathy.
If all actions have a purpose (a motivating goal or utility, even if subliminal) then the rewards of psychosis are a less constrained individualism.
