You both seem to agree that art & culture is of enormous value. And I hope like Adams we agree that it would be ideal if we could leave war & defense much behind us, wish that it was not necessary. You seem well aligned with Adams to me.
I do think there's an interesting level, where when it's suddenly difficult to have art & culture, we value it higher, it's need is more apparent.
I do worry that the path of alienation & isolation capitalism has walked the world down has distanced us from meaning in such a way that art & culture no longer have the capacity to stand as (especially valued/positive) signifiers as much, that art & culture is both under supply side risk from a more brutal & unrelenting mechanization that makes art less accessible to make (few can afford the luxury of being an artist/cultural producer), while also slamming many arts (especially non bougouise) from the demand side - both for the same economic there-is-no-surplus-for-labor/no one-can-afford art problem, but also in the sense that we're so alienated, that we dont resonate positively or cherish art- we dislike so much of the state-of-ourselves, are so roundly enmiserated by the mainstream we are suffused in, that art/culture dont have the essential power it ought have.
We (everyone other tham Ukraine presently) forget what culture we had. Squid Games anti-culture is what we're left with.
I do think there's an interesting level, where when it's suddenly difficult to have art & culture, we value it higher, it's need is more apparent.
I do worry that the path of alienation & isolation capitalism has walked the world down has distanced us from meaning in such a way that art & culture no longer have the capacity to stand as (especially valued/positive) signifiers as much, that art & culture is both under supply side risk from a more brutal & unrelenting mechanization that makes art less accessible to make (few can afford the luxury of being an artist/cultural producer), while also slamming many arts (especially non bougouise) from the demand side - both for the same economic there-is-no-surplus-for-labor/no one-can-afford art problem, but also in the sense that we're so alienated, that we dont resonate positively or cherish art- we dislike so much of the state-of-ourselves, are so roundly enmiserated by the mainstream we are suffused in, that art/culture dont have the essential power it ought have.
We (everyone other tham Ukraine presently) forget what culture we had. Squid Games anti-culture is what we're left with.