• @Dasus@lemmy.world
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    87 months ago

    If you think arts and humanities are useless, you probably lack an imagination.

    Like completely.

    I won’t say you’re useless, because simple minded grunts are needed.

    Humanity wouldn’t exist without the arts.

    • @intensely_human@lemm.ee
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      67 months ago

      Ah yes “the arts”. Definitely the point of humanities, and nothing to do with categorizing the world into “important people” and “simple minded grunts”.

      Humanities students don’t read these days, and it shows.

      • @Dasus@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        “Art” as a term is so all-encompassing that it’s hard to define what is and isn’t art.

        I’m sure you can rustle up some very reductive few word definition, but the most popular ones go something like “the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination”, and that’s a very broad definition, wouldn’t you agree?

        I’m sure you’d also agree there just are some people who never seem to express or apply any of their creative skill or imagination (and some who genuinely seem to lack any altogether), despite still being productive members or society.

        Not everyone needs to be an artist, a minority of the population will do, but without artists, we would all perish. As those people who don’t necessarily express or apply creative skill or imagination, still most certainly enjoy it, and probably couldn’t get through their jobs without it. (Repetitive work is just so much easier while listening to music, and I’m sure that’s not a controversial statement.)

        So what do humanities students do these days then, according to you, since they “don’t read”?

        • @psud@aussie.zone
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          27 months ago

          The arts isn’t about art. Graduates of an arts degree are not generally artists

          • @Dasus@lemmy.world
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            7 months ago

            Yes, arts as a university subject is more looking into artists and their work and what it meant/means for everyone/other people.

            I was never suggesting “arts” in universities are hand-painting lessons, was I?