Now I finally know, why I'm not a multi millionaire from my art. It's not lack of skill.
No!
It's the fault of the rich, who cling to their money to my detriment.
Heureka!

 

And do not share the arcane wisdom.

 

thats why I only deal with single doxes, once you get a pair of doxes your screwed, its like a moebius strip for your brain.

Art & commerce, always frenemys, all the moneys on the commerce side, but without a product, there is no commerce.

most musicians develop a side hustle, it used to be record stores, or working at a club. I have no idea what it is these days. Merchandise (merch) makes more money for most bands, than their music does.

The classic technique and dilemma is to you have to have an audience, a following, to sell your music, etc to. without an audience nobody in commerce is interested in you. But if you have an audience you don't need the commerce people, you can DIY or farm it out to family and friends, etc.

So rather than spend too much time worrying about how to earn a living, figure out instead how to build an audience, and then the living will follow. Its a paradox, but like any big problem, has to be solved in small increments (baby steps)

it all starts with a great song, everything will follow if you create something people love (and don't sign all the rights over to somebody else)

 

You can also get together with others and play street music, you can also dress up as a clown and make children happy.

you should think about it and find out what other people are actually doing and look beyond national borders to poorer countries and see what they are doing. For example, in Brazil, the annual parade and their musical instruments.

Or Africa, how people celebrate and which musical instruments they use. Learn an instrument instead of struggling on the PC, you will notice that the analog real world out there works differently than the world on the World Wide Web.

First try to recognize your strengths and weaknesses and then develop what you do best. Maybe you don't have such a talent for music but you can organize well or you can put on makeup like Kiss. Then go to the city of your town and play the song and dance to it. Don't theorize so much, get into the action.

Kiss - I Was Made For Lovin' You

 

Words of wisdom. I'll just get my ticket and enjoy the show.

 

I don't want to disappoint anyone, but happiness is not an instant feeling when a person decides to be happy.

In order to make an edible food, you need good raw materials and a good cooking, and you have to spend time to combine the ingredients and cook them, then finally a cooked food is made. You will be happy when the food is cooked and you put the food in your mouth and you are satisfied with the food. Without the steps, there will be no happiness.
Also, happiness has to be a lasting feeling that exists in every moment of human life, not only in the present moment. In order to continue feeling happy, there must be unceasing materials of happiness. I wish all people on the planet were happy forever, but due to the lack of resources, this happiness is temporary for many people. Because running out of resources happens at every moment of their lives and takes happiness away from them.
Proximity to resources and uninterrupted access to them is not possible for many people on the planet, and there are only a few people who live on the planet like paradise, and the rest of the people live in suffering and torment.

 

It is true that we are living in the digital age and we have tried to make digital goods exist like real physical goods, but still digital goods are not as valuable as real physical goods. Digital goods need a lot of effort to be produced, but in the end, the value of a loaf of bread is more than a digital good, and this puts all the efforts of an artist at risk of low value.
A person who produces bread feels less danger in life than a person who produces a work of art. A baker can always have a job and easy income, but an artist must face various challenges to produce and sell something. But does the baker face such challenges? Whatever he produces, he will face many customers and his product will be sold until the end, but the artist must deal with many difficulties to sell the products he has produced.

 

Differences and discrepancies eventually turn into paradoxes and polarization. Paradox happens when differences have increased so much that healthy relationships have been destroyed and two or more poles have emerged, usually one of the poles has more power and force and tries to eat the other pole in any way possible to be the ultimate winner. In paradoxes, logical relationships no longer work, and the force that is more powerful tries to destroy the other party at any cost.
These things I wrote are not just my problem. Most artists face devastating risks. Finally, those who rule in powerful and tangible parts of the economy try to destroy other parts of the economy, and this causes the artists to disappear more and more because the artists do not have the economic power to face the huge force of the other side.

 

A lot of force is required to destroy paradoxes.
If power prevails in one part of the physical space and there is a lack of power in another place, paradox, which is a powerful form of heterogeneity and incongruousness, prevails and the weak side bears a heavy price.

 

Yes, but I thought by definition paradoxes were unsolvable.

 

paradox (1500-1600) Latin paradoxum, from Greek, from paradoxis “opposite to what is expected”.

Paradoxes will exist if nothing is done and will deepen every day. Unless it's said that the artist should not have any expectations. If the artists ignore their expectations and they accept that they have no share in the material life on the planet, then maybe it can be said that the paradox did not exist in the first place.

 

Sounds very confusing in regard to the first post. I do not believe you understand what you wrote there either.

 

Yes, but I thought by definition paradoxes were unsolvable.

 

I think you have a happy life.

 

Happiness is a lie

 

I'm more concerned with paradoxes ensconced in a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma ... and wrapped in a burrito.

 

Like you would know Greek now hahaha. Stop with all this shit, in all your threads like you know something. Wikipedia won't help you much.
The words Παράδοξος for male & Παράδοξη for female, Παράδοξο for neutral, are all adjectives and mean weird or uncommon or even idiosyncratic in modern Greek. The word itself is an exact left over of the Ancient Greek language circa 500BC or even older. Where it gets interesting though, is this:
Referring to a certain situation or phenomenon and identifying it as "Το Παράδοξο" (The Paradox), makes it become a noun and it 100% translates to what we call in English, an "Oddity". Something that contradicts itself, inexplicable, defying common sense and/or logic, even nature laws and/or all science or other knowledge man has to this day. See, you learned something today, but school's out now mate.
So, since we got the glossology problem out of the equation.
What you miserably fail trying to describe it, is absolutely no paradox. It is everyday life in the modern "free" world. Your "artistic" reflection, poses a problem only for professionals who live from their art/craft. Since you definitely are not one, wtf do you want. And wtf do you know of our lives, struggles and obstacles we had to overcome and compromises we made or didn't and the cost of all these. Piss off already troll. Boo.
EDIT: The only paradox is you haven't been banned yet. And my goodness you keep coming with new "trolleys" relentlessly often. It's what we call: "Everyday i'm shufflin'"

 

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