Sometime around the 2020 era, we lost the right to be mediocre at things we love. No longer can you just bake bread...you must start a sourdough side hustle lol. Wanna stay fit and go jogging or running? Nah, you gotta optimize your biometrics for a marathon. What my point is that every hobby has been enshittified and gentrified into a brand opportunity.This strange infatuation with optimization culture is killing the human spirit.So this new year, starting tomorrow, one of my resolutions is to do something bad but fun. Maybe I write a terrible poem. I like to draw and paint, so perhaps I will draw a horse that looks like a table or sing off-key in the showers or in front of my loved ones. The algorithm driving the mainstream social media wants me to be a polished product, but my humanity lives in these messy, unoptimized, cringe-inducing joyful failures.I will try to reclaim the right to be an amateur. Will you join me?#creativity #hobbies #art #depression #socialmedia #newyear #resolution #happynewyear #MentalHealth #Culture #enshittification #creative #design #writing #reading #books #drawing #music #gardening #nature #running #fitness

"Emory Douglas: the art of the Black Panthers."Interspersed with images of Douglas’s provocative art, this short documentary from the New York-based production studio Dress Code features Douglas reflecting on his life, and how it intersected with and propelled the Black Panther Party’s mission to fight back against institutional racism.#culture #art #politics #blackpanthers https://aeon.co/videos/the-revolutionary-artist-who-propelled-the-black-panther-movement-with-imagery