Tumblr is doing that thing again
where the sheer pigheaded thickness of people is getting me down again
and not everything is a personal attack
some things aren’t even attacks
THE SHEER AMOUNT OF TIMES THAT POST HAS BEEN REBLOGGED KIND OF PROVES THE POINT THEY WERE TRYING TO MAKE THAT THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE IN ARTISTIC FIELDS AT A TIME WHERE THERE IS A VERY COMPETITIVE JOB MARKET AND NOT A LOT OF DEMAND IN THE FIELDS LISTED
and also, you are reblogging a post that you take to be a personal slam against “artistic vision and values”
on a site that is well known for being primarily composed of artists (of a variety of kinds mind you, but still)
What does this prove to anyone? What is it’s point? You are effectively “sticking it” to no one but a group of like minded individuals that you know you are going to get support and agreement from.
Also. If you think this in sudden news, where have you been? since pretty much ever The only relatively new (and that’s only the last 10 years but it’s been climbing up there for a while now) major on the list is architecture. And I could create a entirely separate post on that topic but I won’t because I don’t like feeling angry and frustrated with people anymore than I have to really, and I don’t want to perpetuate bad feelings or hate.
But I don’t even get this “battle strategy/mentality” on Tumblr especially for a “community” so dedicated to the promotion of equality and fairness. This war and peace dichotomy you project with every post sends extremely mixed messages, I’m sorry to say.
I mean, yeah, you showed “them” (whoever “they” are) you did, with your off topic argument and unrelated example of a timeless piece of artwork or non-standard architecture to prove the worth of art as a whole because that’s how that goes. Using a well-appreciated gold standard as a representation of the general masses of the subject. And in response to something that isn’t even a battle. It was most likely a filler piece between major stories. I mean Time runs articles with little subsections of graphs like this in nearly everyone of their college issues.
And please
PLEASE NOTE THE IMPORTANCE OF THE USE OF QUOTATIONS IN THE HEADING
they imply that it these aren’t useless majors but perceived as useless, or that have the less use to the people graduating with them scaled by some unknown measure of usefulness that ISN’T PROVIDED which should immediately send up warning signs. Danger. Danger Will Robinson.
Most of this is common sense I feel though. No one is attacking art or the importance of art in life, culture, or expression. But the job market is tough right now no denying. Most likely this was a news piece discussing a lot more than just this specific topic.
Also. Anyone who reblogged that post and mentioned being a journalist and how they were offended because how dare these journalists say these things because that’s just dumb they are journalists too
What.
If you are a journalist and can’t pick up on the strategies being employed, the silly tactics that everyone is jumping the gun on (as intended, after all they got you to act like this was important, new, relevant news…this rank from NBC without an obvious source I can remember and without variables or measures listed, and they got you to treat it as scientific fact. Sensationalized and over-blown, the media doesn’t even have to do it now, Tumblr achieves it on its own accord), the fact that this is a short out-of-context screenshot of a probably short conversational time filler piece about college seeing as its about that them where students are graduating from highschool again. And that you are getting so blatantly offended by this…
Anyone studying journalism. Just a word of advice. I’d prepare yourself for a lot more of this feeling. Especially if you are going into television broadcast journalism.
Okay, I didn’t mean for this to be an attack on anyone really, I’m just getting so frustrated with my dash in general. And not just this post (although I have seen it at least 47 times and that was my last count like an hour ago). And, in this case at least, I get it. It hurts to see that. Art, whether it be visual, written, musical, however you chose to express it, is very personal and it is easy to interpret this as a personal attack on something meaningful to you in ways that are so indescribable. But lashing out, and at no one really at that, is just perpetuating this pointless anger, bitterness, fear even, that just fuels hurt feeling and accomplishes nothing.
And I mean this far beyond this one instance. Beyond social justice blogging or fandom wars. We are people. We are not white knights, or evil scum of the earth. We are people. Hopefully all rational, thinking, intelligent people, looking to learn and discuss, to not be ruled by our irrational impulses and violent, vibrant fleeting emotions.
I really would like to see more evidence of this on my dash in the future please.
Thank you for listening to the silly, tired pleas of a frustrated Tumblr user.
I expect to see this reblogged by the morning with scathing commentary on my opinions, pointing out of incorrect minute details, and correcting grammatical/spelling imperfections that I don’t doubt are littering this piece in order to deconstruct my argument by effectively missing the point of everything I tried to say. Don’t let me down now Tumblr.
