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20/6/14 10:24![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
owlectomyWould really like to see a book similar to The Artist's Way that
a) Doesn't have any prosperity theology in it!
b) Acknowledges that what works for the subset of people who are wealthy enough to spend (several hundred dollars?) on a creativity class is not going to work for everybody
c) Acknowledges that the 'magical coincidences' that occur when you try to pursue your artistic dreams are, in fact, a function of living embedded in networks of other well-off creative types, and you're much less likely to have a dentist whose brother is a literary agent if you live in Brownsville instead of Greenwich Village
d) Acknowledges that there are some people who can leap and have confidence that the net will be there, and there are some people who know that if they leap they might just go splat.
I have nothing against lawyers and dentists and executives pursuing their creative dreams! It will do them more good than a lot of the things they could be doing instead. But to not even address the question of whether working-class people face the same kinds of barriers... it feels cheap. And it feels like those personal finance books that tell you to just buy fewer lattes.
a) Doesn't have any prosperity theology in it!
b) Acknowledges that what works for the subset of people who are wealthy enough to spend (several hundred dollars?) on a creativity class is not going to work for everybody
c) Acknowledges that the 'magical coincidences' that occur when you try to pursue your artistic dreams are, in fact, a function of living embedded in networks of other well-off creative types, and you're much less likely to have a dentist whose brother is a literary agent if you live in Brownsville instead of Greenwich Village
d) Acknowledges that there are some people who can leap and have confidence that the net will be there, and there are some people who know that if they leap they might just go splat.
I have nothing against lawyers and dentists and executives pursuing their creative dreams! It will do them more good than a lot of the things they could be doing instead. But to not even address the question of whether working-class people face the same kinds of barriers... it feels cheap. And it feels like those personal finance books that tell you to just buy fewer lattes.
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20/6/14 14:36 (UTC)A while ago I had the tiny idea to do a comp zine on creativity stuff for ppl w/, uh, less money than Julia Cameron. :P But like most of my comp zine ideas it's prolly only happening in a universe that is not this one!
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20/6/14 19:41 (UTC)(Acknowledging that, yes, for some people in some circumstances they can get and keep a horse without spending a HUGE amount of money, but even so, jeez.)