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Re:Brains on Drugs: How tinkering with consciousness became ... by Falkon1313 on Thursday June 22, 2023 @02:48AM (#36428773)
And so, then along came cameras. So now why should anyone bother with art at all, wouldn't sober photographs taken by cameras more effective at depicting reality?

(No offense to photographers.)

Not all of life is about being more effective and efficient all the time. Sometimes it's worthwhile to see things in a different way, and to open up new ideas.

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Re:Brains on Drugs: How tinkering with consciousness became ... by contingencies on Thursday June 22, 2023 @03:09AM (#36428925)
We are in agreement. Personally I went through a history phase, and photography phase, and a Wikipedia phase: now I'm doing watercolour. I find art history to be very interesting, but mostly only the generalities.
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