I saw some dipshit doof-ass motherfuckers on Reddit the other day arguing very sincerely that it was unethical to alter an artist’s work to display in your own home for no commercial gain of any kind.

Jesus fucking Christ. Corporations have whipped them hard. They are full of so much corporate propaganda spew their blood is basically a syrupy mix of PowerPoint slides and 1OQ’s. And this is how Gen Z is. Their “rebellion” is looking at their smartphone for only 16 hours a day instead of 18.

As for me, I firmly believe art is for remixing, repurposing, ripping apart and assembling back together with duct tape, some gouache, and the panache of not being beholden to corporate thought-scrambling slurry. And I also believe that an artist’s supposedly superior skill should not limit you. You are also an artist. Because here’s the thing: anyone who creates art is an artist.

I know that a lot of creative types feel they must be as punitive as possible with how their art is used because of AI and their own subsumption in corporate power and propaganda, but this zero sum thinking just hurts us all. Yes, even the artists “protecting” themselves.

All of this makes me want to buy one of the minor Picassos and spray-paint my initials on it or something. But I wouldn’t waste money on that just to piss off a drove of doofuses. Still tempting, though.