This post is inspired by a woman who stopped by the steps.
She said she wanted to help us out, and gave us the advice
to "make a GoFundMe" and to "ask some rich people who are
really into art for money".
This spawned some questions.
The truth is, money is easy. You make it, or lose it.
Community is harder.
The capitalists don't need to foster their stacks.
We need to foster community to survive under attack.
The only equity that matters under capitalism is percentage growth.
We promote equity first, then acheive degrowth.
To depend on the wealthy to allow creation is to destroy unique
creation itself. To depend on only a subset to allow
creation is to gatekeep creation from those not chosen by that
group.
Do you really want art gatekept by billionaires?
Do you really want to revert to a system where you need
a sponsor to get exposure?
Do you want program output to be more visible than
human input?
No?
Good.
Save the fucking arts.
Don't wait for the billionaires to do it.