Mixing vampires and werewolves. Bold move.

(None of this is an argument against the premise that turning policy making over to lobbyists is spineless and destructive)

It’s also probably something to do with deciding policy first to inform which ‘advice’ you want rather than ‘advice’ determining policy.

Genuine question - where should the line be drawn between lobbyists and real-world advisors? The appointment of James Timpson seemed great to me, but you could argue he’s always been a lobbyist. I guess I’m maybe getting stuck in semantics. Maybe it’s a distinction between self and social interests.

Yes. Furthermore, ‘Do your own research’ in practice means actually engaging with ideas with which you might not agree - and being open to different conclusions.

Never mind the idea that gay is somehow less. It’s bizarre to conflate aesthetics with masculinity as a negative. It’s saying that mummy lays your clothes out every night. It’s removing creative agency from men as a whole. It’s saying that men shouldn’t take pride in appearances. Wild if true.

Prescription of terrorism is not automatically terrorism. The fact the two are now different is exactly the point.

Kim Jung Gi vibes 👍

I hope this was a double feature with Junior.

Came to say this

And further it steers thinking and creativity into a narrower band where the innate artistic desire for feedback drives a specific way of creative problem solving. And so it creates a reductive loop.

This manifests in work or ideas that are most suited to the peep show being promoted above others. Which in turn means we’re less curious, less interrogative and ultimately less creative.

Yeah my personal stuff is all about trying to find the joy

Totally agree. As someone who’s been to art school but also holding down a job alongside personal practice it quickly becomes a marker of both privilege (as mentioned elsewhere) and commitment. Devoting time to the pursuit is both the key and the barrier. Fun leads to style - ie what’s fun for you?

I want to point out that I am also very grateful to be talking to someone whose work I admire about such things, so any abruptness is a mere function of character limits.

I also acknowledge that the term habit (problematically) coincides with discipline, and follows that if you’re not able to establish a regular ‘discipline’ that it’s another way of saying that personal style is purely the domain of time, and therefore a privilege. Fun is valid. Maybe the most valid.

I feel like replacing the word ‘practice’ with ‘habit’ takes the strain off trying to work towards some kind of goal and shifts it towards something less onerous and more attainable. Like it happens by accident, it’s just about committing to put the hours in. Maybe wrong or have misunderstood.