Jordan Peterson recently interviewed Nina Paley. Here are a few of the quotes that I heard that I resonated with. Video below.
“I’m not going to ask for permission to use this music. Especially music that enter my head as a child, which I did not consent to, and have no control over it. Of course, nobody has control over what goes into your head, right? And then, once it’s there, that part of your head that it occupies belongs to a corporation. I’m just done asking for corporations for permissions to use what’s in my head–that they put there.” – Nina Paley
“One thing you can say about the Old Testament is that it’s not naively optimistic. –Jordan Peterson
“An idol and an ideology are very much the same thing. Ideology is terribly dangerous because you take something concrete, like an axiom of some sort, and then you make that your highest value, which is narrow, restricts you and makes you incredibly dangerous. The idea that there is danger in idolization is a very powerful thing. I think that’s what informed the restrictions against making graven images of god, because you end up confusing the image with the transcendent reality.” –JPB
Art is a form a exploration rather than a form of categorization.
What exactly IS intellectual property? Does it exist? Culture is not property.
People WANT to support you because they actually have seen your work. If you go around taking down every instance of your work because of copyright, then fewer people will be exposed to your ideas. Instantiation is the most efficient distribution machine that exists. –NP (Paraphrased)
Muse Prayer by Nina Paley
Our Idea
Which art in the ether
That cannot be named
Thy vision come
Thy will be done
On earth as it is in abstraction
Give us this day our daily spark
And forgive us our criticsisms
As we forgive those who critique against us
And lead us not into stagnation
But deliver us from Ego
For thine is the vision, the power, and the glory forever
Amen
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