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This is 100% not true. > An effective education requires a certain amount of torture, and it works better when self inflicted. It's the tortured artist myth.
by joshcsimmons 11mo ago
This is 100% not true.
> An effective education requires a certain amount of torture, and it works better when self inflicted.
It's the tortured artist myth. You can turn pain into art but it's not a prerequisite.
- paxys 11mo agoQuite the opposite in fact. Throughout history the most successful artists have been the well funded ones.
- delichon 11mo agoThe most miserable people I've known were rich people's children. Depression is more about the lack of hope than money.
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- paxys 11mo agoYou probably don't know very many poor people then, because poverty, food insecurity, physical insecurity, homelessness, job loss are all very common depression triggers. It's just that these cases don't make the front page of newspapers at the same rate as celebrities committing suicide.
- delichon 11mo agoThe ones I knew weren't celebrities, they were friendless and isolated and consumed with self disgust. Poor people trapped in unemployment have something in common with rich kids trapped in lethargy. A kind of spiritual constipation.
- michaelscott 11mo agoNo, more like literal survival. In these conditions there is no mental bandwidth for things like spiritual constipation
- krapp 11mo agoWhen you're poor in a capitalist society, money is hope.
- Kostchei 11mo agoYeh, I agree with this. My art (painting and building) comes at a much faster rate when I am content. Having time and metal space to contemplate colour scheme, being confident to start something bold: that doesn't happen if I am tired, preoccupied or depressed
- joshcsimmons 11mo agoTime for harvest and a separate time for planting.
- delichon 11mo agoOver-emphasized maybe, but myth? Could Doyle have written a sympathetic lonely depressed addict so well without more than academic understanding of those things?
- sudosteph 11mo agoHe was a physician and had said that his experience treating patients influenced his characters. So, he had more than academic experience, but I'm not sure if it's enough to prove he experienced those things personally.