Now look at them yo-yo-s, that's the way you do it.
You play the guitar on the MTV.
That ain't working...
Art does not produce grain, in general, but tells you where the world is going or what has it become. It told you about the bricks in the wall, the cogs in the engine...But it's also quite useful to recognize and accept reality instead of denying it.
It's either being a cog for society or being self-sufficient and that latter kind of life does not really include civilization's boons, nor much else but hunting/gathering/skinning/chopping down stuff. I'm all for knowing how to do it, first.
The for profit capitalism has lead to talent being concentrated in the highest paying stuff and energy being channeled towards risky stuff while the foundations are kind of being neglected. The dirty work we gentlemen avoid...
I was thinking the other day that it was growing quite expensive to spare the time and grow food as an individual, for example. On a not mass-producing level. It's because of centralized funding of mass production which twists the market. And because the rat races pace increases so much that you're now falling behind even if you're a regularly running rat.
Being a brick in a wall that falls apart kind of sucks.
So it's the kind of alternative that you chose that defines you.