Remove the evil a** meme from your life and you will be free. Just be what you are...a graphic designer, painter, dancer, programmer, pumber, musician, composer, policeman, athlete. Your need to be an a**ist or to "know" what a** is is just evidence that you are firmly in the grip of this powerful meme.
When people dared to consider that anything other than traditional a** as defined by the exclusive "in the know group" was a**, they invented a new meme called "fine a**" to maintain their exclusive hold on all things a**istic.
I am a programmer by profession and a musician/ composer by passion. I have no need to be an a**ist or to have anything I produce labeled a** by anyone else.
JUST LET IT GO. As more of us do, the evil a** meme will die out which will solve a lot more problems than older generations who "don't underastand our a**" dying off ever will.
I've found that this and all similar issues go away if you eliminate the "a" word ( heretofore known as a** ) from the vocabulary. As a professional programmer and amatuer ( as in does it for love...not the erroneous 'not good enough to be paid' ) musician/composer I do not in any way want to be called an a**tist and will reject the false label until the day I die. If anyone considers any of my output to be a**, let them wallow in their unenlightenment...I know better.
As you can see from this discussion, no one knows what a** means or what it is. It doesn't exist. Lose the concept and gain clarity. Musicians, painters, sculptors, dancers, architects, athletes, ditchdiggers, whatever, none are a**tists because a** is just a self serving meme by which we pass quality judgement on what others do.
If you think you are an a**tist, or feel the need to belong to the a** world. Let it go. Forever reject the word, all it's variants and the associated baggage. You will then be free from the judgement of 6 billion+ a** critics and your creative output will soar to new heights.
Nothing is a**
No one is an a**tist
a** doesn't exist.
Now we can all get on with our lives.
( Don't even get me started about music and all those who would say " Music is..." or worse " Music should be...." )
This weekend I will go to a "painting" show and hang with the a**sy fartsy crowd;-7
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Remove the evil a** meme from your life and you will be free. Just be what you are...a graphic designer, painter, dancer, programmer, pumber, musician, composer, policeman, athlete. Your need to be an a**ist or to "know" what a** is is just evidence that you are firmly in the grip of this powerful meme.
When people dared to consider that anything other than traditional a** as defined by the exclusive "in the know group" was a**, they invented a new meme called "fine a**" to maintain their exclusive hold on all things a**istic.
I am a programmer by profession and a musician/ composer by passion. I have no need to be an a**ist or to have anything I produce labeled a** by anyone else.
JUST LET IT GO. As more of us do, the evil a** meme will die out which will solve a lot more problems than older generations who "don't underastand our a**" dying off ever will.
I've found that this and all similar issues go away if you eliminate the "a" word ( heretofore known as a** ) from the vocabulary. As a professional programmer and amatuer ( as in does it for love...not the erroneous 'not good enough to be paid' ) musician/composer I do not in any way want to be called an a**tist and will reject the false label until the day I die. If anyone considers any of my output to be a**, let them wallow in their unenlightenment...I know better.
;-7
As you can see from this discussion, no one knows what a** means or what it is. It doesn't exist. Lose the concept and gain clarity. Musicians, painters, sculptors, dancers, architects, athletes, ditchdiggers, whatever, none are a**tists because a** is just a self serving meme by which we pass quality judgement on what others do.
If you think you are an a**tist, or feel the need to belong to the a** world. Let it go. Forever reject the word, all it's variants and the associated baggage. You will then be free from the judgement of 6 billion+ a** critics and your creative output will soar to new heights.
Nothing is a**
No one is an a**tist
a** doesn't exist.
Now we can all get on with our lives.
( Don't even get me started about music and all those who would say " Music is..." or worse " Music should be...." )
This weekend I will go to a "painting" show and hang with the a**sy fartsy crowd
finis