You are viewing a single comment's thread from:
RE: Intermediary Scribe
Yes, it's interesting. The downside is that it's increasingly hard for artists of any sort to make an honest living from our craft, but the upside is a greater ability to experience the immediate impact of our work.
Precisely. Just like money in realm of economics, pieces of artistic craft are constantly being inflated these days. And sometimes effects of this process are heartbreaking.
Hmmmm, artistic inflation. You know, that's true, though the population increases as well. So theoretically it would only inflate if humanity as a whole was becoming more artistic, since there are always more potential consumers being born. That probably is occurring somewhat as part of our evolutionary process as technology allows us to have more free time and access to the tools needed to study art.
Interesting observation. Well, there are different kinds of inflation, according to economists, right? And, when it comes to consumers, i am not that sure if their numbers are indeed increasing. Anyway, it is fascinating to discuss, in essence, economy of creativity.
You're right. It would depend upon the art form. Nowadays more people are interested in things that are immersively captivating with low effort, such as television and video games. These provide instant feedback and gratification compared to something like poetry. Even visual art is more engaging to most. Combine that with the fact that poetry in the western world has always been something of a niche craft with the majority of poets dying poor and it's not exactly a pretty picture, financially. Luckily, the sheer pleasure of making poetry and sharing it continues to cause it to seem a worthy pursuit for those of us that catch the bug :-D
Haha. There is one eminent Polish poet who one said that poets are strange and crazy people. Nevertheless, without poets, world would be terrible and quite boring place.