Oh I feel this, I’ve had a really hard time with making music this past year, I’m a pretty vibes based person and the feeling has just been abysmal really, so my mood to engage with and produce music has just been drained, sadly since it’s the thing I enjoy most in the world and spent a great deal of time, energy and money to make happen. It just feels trite when there’s so much pain and suffering going on. Ugh. I’m trying though, and hopefully I can use it as a tool for relaxation and escape as I have in the past.
Same. My creativity has been sapped since the re-election of Donald Trump. I hoped I could channel being in such an awful time to shut myself off and pour into making a game, but I really had no idea how dire things would get. I knew Trump’s second term would be bad, but not this bad, and it’s hitting everything of my C-PTSD.
Is it reasonable to expect yourself to do creative work when the world is burning around you; or have I been pushing myself too hard?
It’s a conundrum, on one hand you don’t want to let him/everything get to you because that’s the point, on the other hand you don’t want to turn a blind eye to everything going on. None of this is my fault, I told people for years what kind of person he was, is it too self-indulgent now to be a creator for creation’s sake, without a cause or purpose? That would be pretty sad indeed. That said, I think with all of these threats to our humanity, anti-intellectualism, anti-arts, AI, we need creators more than ever. Not “disrupters”, actual creators, with visions, not sci-fi fantasies.
