/siberia/ - Off-topic

>>784092
I disagree, this has ruined art as a whole.

>>784094
It's made to collapse in any case.
Beyond that, the slopification of art has been a disaster for the working class.

>>784096
It's not less effective, if anything the escapism is the only thing remaining, there is nothing intelligent or interesting about most modern art, it's just become slop and it now weakens the even intelligence of the working class, it's taken the place of religion without any of the philosophy of it.

>>784091
It's good for escapism. I like to watch cgdct anime to distract myself from the real world

To paint Marx Lenin and Engels for badass banners

>the simple answer
Engaging you with a subject beyond the scope of rigorous knowledge seeking. So art won't teach you anything concrete about politics, but it can make you see the humor in something, or make your bedroom cozier, or encourage you to do something new, or give you a way to connect with other people, and so on. This is important to fulfill our emotional needs and keep us curious and interested in the world. Of course, as a secondary "practical" effect it can also teach you new words or make you think about something a little.
>the real answer
"Art" is not a fixed category and we shouldn't assume that there is a common purpose between everything we shove into that category today. We might treat an ancient political satirist like Juvenal as an "artist" and then suppose he must be similar to those of today, especially those who are also "political", but he was writing for a specific audience in a specific milieu and had strong reason to believe his writing might actually influence powerful people, whereas an anarchist punk rock band playing to fifty drunks in a dingy bar does not.

Things don't have to be have a purpose to be allowed to exist.

>>787951
bourgeois degeneracy. art is useless and wastes resources

>>787952
Yes because the bourgeoisie famously abhors austerity and "rationalisation" and profit maximizing at the cost of everything else, you limp-dicked Leninist.

>>787952
The amount of ressources wasted is very minimal for the vast majority of art pieces, unless you want to argue for totalen krieg where we will scrap children's playground for steel or some shit

art has been slop pre-ai. ai art commercialization is just the logical endpoint tbh

>>787955
They should pave over Hollywood, then.

>>787952
>bourgeois degeneracy
Art has existed since long before agriculture, let alone the bourgeoisie.