or some kind of agenda

but the paintings that you see like the giant white line that sell for millions of dollars are usually fronts for money laundering schemes

Art should be well-made.
Just because there is an agenda behind a piece doesn't mean it isn't trash.

And yes, the modern art market is simply a way of investment.

But modern art =/= modern art market.

what was that @Kazimir Malevich !

I saw your sin, you cant hide it now!

Felt like 5 images in a row is a bit too much for general chat.

It was my anime wife, Pepina

oof

*whispers nervously* a-are you a g-gamer girl?

*blushes*

*licks your feet*

*whips out meat scepter*

I'm only 52 mate.

No need for rudeness.

Gonna boom you in the behind, you bint.

>inb4 resident autist takes this seriously

Shut the fuck up, you only make my day worse

Good.

Anyway

I remember you too mihco

Sounds like my grandma

i think mental illness is just being diagnosed more

I added on to the question

I think it's a combination of increasing depression and increasing desire to give patients profitable and easy medication to fix the problem. Some people might need meds, but doctors rarely even try to solve the issue without meds. I think people are more depressed because modern life has largely lost meaning beyond being cog in the machine and people have fewer close relationships. People don't have a sense of belonging and making a difference.

It's all in there heads. Most of these people don't have a mental illness

I made some new <#521916756852342784> regarding this topic

I think this will be an interesting discussion

@t r u e tbh I feel like the acceleration of technology and loss of more personal relationships has contributed to that

so many people just sit and stare at screens nowadays

I’ll admit I spend an unhealthy amount of time in front of screens too but like at least I know how to talk to people

the main reason I use them so much is because where I live my friends live like 30-40 miles away from me so there isn’t much I can do besides electronic shit or outdoors shit

Yeah, I agree. Technology certainly comes with a cost. Gaming is one of the worst things, it hijacks our desire to have a goal, work towards it and achieve it (the power process). We spend years "accomplishing" false goals but getting a real dopamine rush. It's no coincidence that the most competitive among us, males, are the ones most effected and that males prefer competitive games. It makes us impotent in a lot of ways. Who knows what we could do without that addictive distraction.

I resisted being too anti-technology, at least not to the point that I thought we had to get rid of most of it. However, that is increasingly becoming my point of view. We pollute our bodies, babies are born with industrial chemicals in their blood and we don't know the impact (things like Teflon). We pollute nature so that there is no where to escape the pollutants and they accumulate because they take forever to break down. We kill ourselves working so that more and more stuff can be made because this is what makes the capitalists wealthy and we are all to happy to buy and be consumers of needless crap. Our entire society is built around this system of consumption, needless crap, working for those who profit from this needless crap and politicians serve these same people. We have not build technology that encourages the good in humans, we have not made it work for us. We have encouraged the most destructive behaviors and we now work for technology.

This describes the problem with Curt Doolittle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnum_effect