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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWays To Stay Motivated In This Shit-Shellacked Era Of Epic Stupid
http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2017/06/27/ways-to-stay-motivated-in-this-shit-shellacked-era-of-epic-stupid/Everything is dumb right now.
From nose to tail, we have become the dumbest, saddest pig at the county fair. Historians will not refer to this period as THE DARK AGES, but rather, THE DUMB AGES. The greatest question I get, right now, is how to simply persist creating art and staying motivated and creative in this epoch of syphilitic dipshittery, so I thought Id bop in here and try my hand at answering that.
1. Stop staring at the news and at social media. This is hard, because presently the news is a series of constantly crashing cars right outside your window. One after the next, bang, smash, crash. The symphony of shrieking metal is very, very hard to turn away from. In many eras, the news is only marginally relevant to you on a day to day basis but, to me it seems that ratio is going up, up, up. The healthcare debacle alone affects me, um, rather significantly. If I dont have access to healthcare via health insurance, then this thing that I do gets a whole lot harder. Just the same, I gotta know to turn away from it. The news is a vampire. Itll bleed you dry and leave you a desiccated husk on the carpet. You can look at it, but pick your times. Write or make art first, then go and stare into the unswerving gaze of Sauron himself.
2. Writing is an act of resistance. Art is an act of resistance. Shit, just living your life in the maelstrom is resistance. Heres how you know when something is a act of resistance: would the Shitty People, the Petty Men with Axes, want you to do it? No? Then do it. They want you showing your belly. They want you to stop contributing your ideas. They want you to shut the fuck up. So, dont. Dont get sad. Get mad. Get fucking pissed. And then
3. Put that piss and vinegar into the work. Pour it right in. Glug, glug, splish-splash.
4. Do some real resistance, too. Make your calls. Join a protest. Contribute some cash to an organization who will carry the fight in ways you cannot. Key point: do this after youre done doing the thing you need to do. ............
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Ways To Stay Motivated In This Shit-Shellacked Era Of Epic Stupid (Original Post)
L. Coyote
Jun 2017
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underpants
(182,902 posts)1. Revolution!!!
TeapotInATempest
(804 posts)2. You had me at "Everything is dumb right now".
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)3. 1. is most important, by far