Blog 7

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Before #1
Imagine telling an art museum night guard, that his career is worthless. Your justification? Your convoluted explanation that “all possible artwork already exists somewhere in the quantum multiverse” (Southan 4). You chastise him, because those paintings have no value whatsoever, and suggest that he take the night off. Assuming that the night guard is able to pause in between fits of laughter, he might retort; “Sure, if I don’t care about losing my job”. And he is right. Art has both tangible and intangible aspects. A piece of art may contain metaphors, and symbolism, and several kinds of higher meaning; but at the same time, it is a tangible object with real value, and time and effort and creativity inserted into it. To suggest, as Effective Altruists do, that all art is a waste of space would make for a very rich, and very happy group of thieves the moment the museum unlocked its doors.

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After #1
Based on the advice in W-4c, I decided to make my paragraph more coherent, so it would flow better. In addition, I decided to modify my transition to the next paragraph.
Imagine telling an art museum night guard, that his career is worthless. Your justification? Your convoluted explanation that “all possible artwork already exists somewhere in the quantum multiverse” (Southan 4). You chastise him, because those paintings have no value whatsoever, and suggest that he take the night off. Assuming that the night guard is able to pause in between fits of laughter, he might retort; “Sure, if I don’t care about losing my job”. And he is right. Art has both tangible and intangible aspects. A piece of art contains metaphors, and symbolism, all things that can’t be measured in a financial sense. But at the same time, art is a tangible object with real value. Look at the millions fetched for  famous paintings, or the money spent by rapid pop culture fans. Art is quite literally priceless, because it is, as Benjamin Zanner claimed in a TED talk a vehicle to “…awaken possibility in other people.”, through the time and effort and creativity inserted into it. To suggest, as Effective Altruists do in Rhys Southan’s narrative Is Art a Waste of Time?, that all art is a waste of space would make for a very rich, and very happy group of thieves the moment the museum unlocked its doors.

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Before #2
On the contrary, because a piece of art’s value is subjunctive, its value is quite literally priceless. As we see in Benjamin Zanner’s TED talk “The Transformative Power of Classical Music”, making any form of art, whether it be music, literature, photography, filmmaking, crafts, or drawing, involves an tremendous selfless effort that can help benefit a larger audience.
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After #1
Based on the advice in W-4a, I decided to make my paragraph focus more on the main point.
On the contrary, because a piece of art’s value is subjunctive, its value is quite literally priceless. As we see in Benjamin Zanner’s TED talk “The Transformative Power of Classical Music”, making any form of art, whether it be music, literature, photography, filmmaking, crafts, or drawing, involves an tremendous selfless effort that can help benefit a larger audience. That effort could certainly be applied to simple donation of money, but art can awaken so much more in people. It can give them a passion for life, that money could never provide. Not as problems can be solved, through the effective altruist method of dumping money on the problem. Plenty of people want for nothing, yet still suffer. Not in a physical sense of the word suffer, but in an emotional sense. Art can help to heal that hole in those people so afflicted.

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