This is why I still do art the old fashioned way with a real pencil on a real sheet of paper. The drawings resist coming to life. They require effort and mistakes and rework but the effort is so therapeutic and real. It grounds me, and is my push back against generative AI, which can produce a reasonable version in seconds the output that takes me hours.
The Luddites had the right idea, we need work with our minds and bodies that machines cannot do for us. We need jobs that are fulfilling and help our neighbors and the environment. We cannot let automation take over our lives, our lives will be meaningless, we will become products that only consume more products. We need is a paradigm shift in our society. Our capitalist culture is ruining our society, humankind and the planet.
> neurotic because technology automates petty tasks, the accomplishment of which, especially with your “signature,” provides satisfaction
What would it mean if most people could honestly say, without insensibility, that such a loss holds little significance to them? Would they be better or worse off by not suffering in that respect? Perhaps they easily find other ways to express their creative energies, even consistently preferring this automation?
“There are many vexatious accidents and uneasy situations which raise little compassion for the sufferer, and which no man but those whom they immediately distress can regard with seriousness. Petty mischiefs, that have no influence on futurity, nor extend their effects to the rest of life, are always seen with a kind of malicious pleasure.”
Welcome to smooth hell! A term I just invented.
Anyway, did you ever feel… smaller, slightly less real, after a machine ‘helped’ you or automated something you used to do?
I love these thoughts. There certainly is something missing in our lives, at least judging by the incessant need of most to attempt to fill a hole.
This is why I still do art the old fashioned way with a real pencil on a real sheet of paper. The drawings resist coming to life. They require effort and mistakes and rework but the effort is so therapeutic and real. It grounds me, and is my push back against generative AI, which can produce a reasonable version in seconds the output that takes me hours.
This a fabulous. Thank you.
The Luddites had the right idea, we need work with our minds and bodies that machines cannot do for us. We need jobs that are fulfilling and help our neighbors and the environment. We cannot let automation take over our lives, our lives will be meaningless, we will become products that only consume more products. We need is a paradigm shift in our society. Our capitalist culture is ruining our society, humankind and the planet.
> neurotic because technology automates petty tasks, the accomplishment of which, especially with your “signature,” provides satisfaction
What would it mean if most people could honestly say, without insensibility, that such a loss holds little significance to them? Would they be better or worse off by not suffering in that respect? Perhaps they easily find other ways to express their creative energies, even consistently preferring this automation?
“There are many vexatious accidents and uneasy situations which raise little compassion for the sufferer, and which no man but those whom they immediately distress can regard with seriousness. Petty mischiefs, that have no influence on futurity, nor extend their effects to the rest of life, are always seen with a kind of malicious pleasure.”