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To elaborate on the point of being “replaceable,” as EA’s would say, I do not agree with what they think at all. They believe that if, as an artist, if you are just as good as the person next to you than what point is there in doing it. If you want to be successful you need to make yourself irreplaceable and always strive and need to be better than the next person. In short, they’re mostly saying that if you’re not always doing better than someone else that you don’t matter, or that your work doesn’t matter. This is just completely absurd to me that someone preaching “good deeds” would degrade people in such a way as this. Saying that your work doesn’t matter unless your doing better than the next person infuriates me. If that was really the case, there wouldn’t be any current, famous pop singers because, in my opinion, all their work sounds pretty similar, but each song has their own unique spin on it. Everyone’s work is important to them and society in different ways so to try and discredit that is totally not acceptable in my book.

It is also very ironic how hypocritical the EA’s can be in their preachings. They like to say how art is a waste of time and you should be helping the poor instead of “watching the world burn” while you paint, or draw, or write, etc. On the other hand, they say that you can make art as long as it pertains to the EA’s ideas and morals. I don’t understand how that is right to be able to tell people what they can and can’t express in their personal artistic interpretations.  They are basically stating that art is bad unless you’re using it to promote their group. How they gain followers using this methodology is pretty surprising to me honestly. That would be like telling someone to ask before they take something from you, then proceeding to take something from them without asking. It is just very unethical and wrong to be so hypocritical like that.

1 Comment

  1. elishaemerson

    First of all, your site looks great! I enjoyed learning more about you on your About Me page. I, also, have five siblings–and three of them are sisters! I don’t know what I would do without them!

    Your annotations are off to a strong start. I think you are doing a GREAT job critically engaging with the ideas in these texts. Can you see any strengths in the EAs’ logic?

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