[..] the mere notion that 'Money can be used to do good' rests entirely on the dubious anti-philosophical idea that 'doing good' needs a big bunch of (cosmically useless) 0's and 1's - rather than simple Human compassion.
*sighs* As I sit here alone here in this utterly miserable overpriced freezing shoebox flat with silverfish running over my toes and mold creeping up the window frames, I also understand that they(tm) sure make it difficult not to believe in such a ridiculous and delusional dream. "Man, if only I were rich.." - Yeah, and the rest of the (never completed) sentence is "Then I'd be even less of a decent, artistic human being than I am already."
Anyone else notice how fcuking boring Capitalism is?
There's also another fact to take into consideration - that most art made within a selfish and psychotically greedy Capitalist society is itself already 'the art of Capitalism' - ie. more brightly colored smoke n' mirrors to keep the Proles occupied. (That's probably why mainstream right wing media consumers get such engorged veins on their foreheads when protestors throw paint or soup on those beloved bits of painted canvas in their favorite Institutions Of Culture; the symbolic importance of such art as a marker of 'nice safe default Money-based reality' must be protected at all costs.)
In this sense, modern Art™ can be considered a mere marker of the forever changing same - no matter what's smeared on the (/digital) canvas, it's all still firmly within the wider, violently-controlled contextual frame of Capitalist Realism (as Mark Fisher famously put it.)
More thoughts on art & money later. "I love art - but there's no money in it.."
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RW
A 'social internet gamedev simulation', project STARLARP simply considers the modern fan community art and drama that swirls around AAA game development - the 'Scenius' - as the more interesting game being developed, and played. 