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My favorite people are the ones who kick down other people's accomplishments while simultaneously being too cool to do it themselves. Real pillars of the community, yknow? :^)
I am pointing out that there are ways to be productive, and that some things are easier to make lots of than others. You should not be surprised that a folk musician can make lots of albums in a year, because the process is fairly streamlined compared to other forms of music.
Most of the times, when musicians challenge themselves to be very productive, they generally tend to aim for music like pop or folk music, because it requires less complexity.
Would you like to claim that "it's easier to wrote a 2 hour long symphony than a 2 minute folk song" is true?
The point
You
It's not about what's more """productive"""" you effing shareholder. It's not about which is more difficult. It's about the fact this person was not only brave enough to produce music actively critical of the regime, but has done so with enough talent to gain meaningful recognition. It's the same respect for Rage Against the Machine; the music is great, but the focus is the proliferation of the message. Any jackass can get on the internet and say whatever they want, but being able to convert those sentiments into music, publish that music, and get the level of attention Jesse has for it is the accomplishment.
So it's not a concerto in E minor, sure. But it pulls attention to the issues we're facing. Listen to The Poor and tell me that message isn't worth making cuz it's easy. Listen to Join ICE and tell me it doesn't matter because it's too streamlined.
same goes to you.
I'm talking about shit like this : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thing_a_Week
And saying that if you specify your goals, you too can be productive.
Also, to not be daunted by high rates of productions of other people.
u rite my bad. productivitymaxxing shareholderpilled stock market coded rat racers supreme will inherit the earth. gg no re
Ok, now you're just devolving into nonsense.
I'm trying to help empower people into thinking that they can also achieve things that they think only happen to other people so that they can be more creative and satisfied in their life. I am pointing my own experience as common and the wrong thing to do.
I literally went to therapy and took anti depressants to deal with this issue. I was getting burnt out by work and additional responsabilities, and turning to just easy pleasures like playing proc-gen rougelikes and felt like I was wasting my life. My therapist introduced me to the idea of the eudaimonic/hedonistic balance, and it's important to keep a balance between these so that you aren't burning yourself out, and also not looking back at the month that went by as a complete fucking waste.
Because when you look at other people that appear to be "creatives" you need to see yourself as being capable enough to be like them, and not feel defeatism in "oh no, I can't ever do that, because I don't have what they have".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudaimonia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonism
This is literally a battle I'm having in my spare time at the moment for my own sanity and life satisfaction, and want to share those ideas with other people. Get out of the meme space and think for yourself man.