Sam Iglesias
@sam
still find it minorly irksome that the tech right, for all its many virtues, seems to have no idea how it’s going to enable arts and culture to flourish. you can bellyache about how gothic cathedrals and renaissance sculptures are gorgeous, but like, what’s your actual plan to get us back there?
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Sam Iglesias
@sam
ideally reclaiming national identity should come with both technological optimism AND strong moral/aesthetic signposts from our artists, who should be exalted as highly as our scientists and entrepreneurs. I see a shameful lack of leadership or influence from the current crop. take back the arts too!
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tldr (tim reilly)
@tldr
Great observation. What are some of the examples we can look at and aspire to?
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Sam Iglesias
@sam
examples of regimes that propped up the arts? or individuals? public broadcasting from the 50s seems to contain many great examples, such as the Bernstein Young People’s Concerts series. SF is architected where there’s an arts center adjoining city hall. Why don’t tech leaders spend just a little bit of time promoting attendance? I hate to say it, but Steve Jobs was the last tech leader I could think of who explicitly and frequently brought culture and the arts into the tech domain.
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tldr (tim reilly)
@tldr
Yeah, I'm thinking about how learning about the ambition and success of the Manhattan Project seems to have really impacted a generation of entrepreneurs. In terms of how they think about their aspirations. (Even if their work is not a Gov project). I'm wondering if there are stories of monumental artistic projects that could similarly raise the bar of what people in our time think of as possible and desirable as an ambition. Bc I agree with you, there's a dearth of such projects rn.
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