Build contrarian culture by practicing more art and creative endeavors. As an artist you are forced to think outside the box in order to survive and thrive. If you aren't constantly innovating or creating something novel and unique it's just a master study of someone else and you are just a copycat. In order to be a successful artist or creator you must think of something new and novel otherwise the content you produce will be tired and get no praise. I may be biased but my childhood and young adulthood was mostly full of art and I truly believe it's why I am constantly questioning the status quo. Artists are also just naturally good at questioning things and not just taking them at face value.
It's also probably one of the few classes in school that promotes endless questions and experimentation and really the only class that has no right answers. Well art and probably philosophy.
Build contrarian culture by practicing more art and creative endeavors. As an artist you are forced to think outside the box in order to survive and thrive. If you aren't constantly innovating or creating something novel and unique it's just a master study of someone else and you are just a copycat. In order to be a successful artist or creator you must think of something new and novel otherwise the content you produce will be tired and get no praise. I may be biased but my childhood and young adulthood was mostly full of art and I truly believe it's why I am constantly questioning the status quo. Artists are also just naturally good at questioning things and not just taking them at face value.
It's also probably one of the few classes in school that promotes endless questions and experimentation and really the only class that has no right answers. Well art and probably philosophy.
Thank you for the mention, and looking forward to even more contrarian posts! :)
"I believe we are in crisis.
The distance between what is said and what is known to be true has become an abyss.
Of all the things at risk, the loss of an objective reality is perhaps the most dangerous.
The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil.
When truth leaves us, when we let it slip away, when it is ripped from our hands,
we become vulnerable to the appetite of whatever monster screams the loudest."
Mon Mothma's speech to the Imperial Assembly (Star Wars, Andor, S02E09)
We should not be contrarian for the sake of being contrarian, or individual, but because truth is being lost in the noise of consensus.
It's meaningful for me that you choose clarity in a time of conformity.