Art can’t save the world on its own, no.Neither can soup kitchens. You don’t just need volunteers, you need food. You don’t just need food, you need donations. You don’t just need donations, you need a steady stream of donations. What about places without accesses to these? What if we run out of food? Now who is pretentious?But if it’s related to the Dublin Contemporary, the goal would line up:

Taken from William Butler Yeats’ famous poem “Easter, 1916”, the exhibition’s title borrows from the Irish writer’s seminal response to turn-of-the-century political events to site art’s underused potential for commenting symbolically on the world’s societal, cultural and economic triumphs and ills.

However, if meant as Contemptorary…

contempt: 1. the feeling with which a person regards anything considered mean, vile, or worthless; disdain; scorn.2. the state of being despised; dishonor; disgrace.3. Law        a. willful disobedience to or open disrespect for the rules or orders of a court or legislative body.        b. an act showing such disrespect.




Then whoever made this sign must be the same people who support the “top 10 useless college majors”.Art will not save the world on its own. But it makes the world worth saving.It can inspire masses to move towards that soup kitchen, not out of anger or pity but out of compassion.Something that this sign, and those with similar mindsets, are obviously lacking.

You don’t inspire someone to action by calling them a “pretentious fuck”. You do it by appealing to their emotions and giving them direction. Hope and compassion are the greatest motivators.Anger and contempt are not.

Art can’t save the world on its own, no.
Neither can soup kitchens. You don’t just need volunteers, you need food. You don’t just need food, you need donations. You don’t just need donations, you need a steady stream of donations. What about places without accesses to these? What if we run out of food? Now who is pretentious?

But if it’s related to the Dublin Contemporary, the goal would line up:

Taken from William Butler Yeats’ famous poem “Easter, 1916”, the exhibition’s title borrows from the Irish writer’s seminal response to turn-of-the-century political events to site art’s underused potential for commenting symbolically on the world’s societal, cultural and economic triumphs and ills.

However, if meant as Contemptorary

contempt:
1. the feeling with which a person regards anything considered mean, vile, or worthless; disdain; scorn.
2. the state of being despised; dishonor; disgrace.
3. Law
        a. willful disobedience to or open disrespect for the rules or orders of a court or legislative body.
        b. an act showing such disrespect.

Then whoever made this sign must be the same people who support the “top 10 useless college majors”.

Art will not save the world on its own. But it makes the world worth saving.
It can inspire masses to move towards that soup kitchen, not out of anger or pity but out of compassion.
Something that this sign, and those with similar mindsets, are obviously lacking.

You don’t inspire someone to action by calling them a “pretentious fuck”. You do it by appealing to their emotions and giving them direction. Hope and compassion are the greatest motivators.

Anger and contempt are not.

(Source: oh-my-hell, via alltime-lord)

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