Want To Be A "Better" Artist or Entrepreneur?

Reject The Status Quo

where do you go when they’ve commodified your dissent?

If you got hired as The Architect Of It All, is this how you would have designed our world? Do you love the world as it is? As it works? Really???

Couldn’t you have come up with something better? Even if you could have solved or prevented issues like war, climate disaster, inequality, abuse and the paltry amount of good snack foods, what more would you have wanted to provide us? Perhaps a world or society where there was more support for things we all can benefit from? Surely you’d give us free education, health care, public transportation. If it had been a good day maybe we’d even get a four day work week and Universal Basic Income. Thanks for that, at least in that alternate dimension where equality might be possible. Get me the ticket, and I am there.

But what about when it comes to the film business? What would you do there? Surely, you could design something a wee bit better than what we inherited! Am I asking too much? Do you recognize how much in this current version we got oh so wrong? You know we can do better.

Do you like that they have no respect for development? Do you like that they do not value relationships? Do you like that they have no vision for what their company is or stands for? That they say one thing and do the other? Perpetuate absurd catch-22’s? Don’t even know what it means to be talent friendly? That Indie Film is essentially 50 years of doing the wrong thing? That we don’t have an Artist’s Bill Of Rights?

What about just paying people fairly, rewarding success, providing people with data transparency for the work they generate, and not replacing them with machines? And then you wonder why everyone goes on strike? We’ve been chatting here about these sort of things for about one year now; what sort of conclusions are you coming to?

Some folks misunderstand these discussions and see them as some sort of complaining. Wrong. This never has been a recommendation to just pack up and open a liquor store by the beach. It’s completely the opposite. Examination of present and utopian thinking are both crucial steps of any artist’s or entrepreneur’s creative practice. Hear me?

This. Is. How. We. Lift. It. Up. EZPZ. We need a clear understanding of where we stand and where we want to go. Each point will always beg for better definition. What if there was a simple rule that hastened the discovery of both those ends? Of the where we are and of where we can reach? Would you want that? Can I offer you one? I’ve got it and want to share it. Here’s the process.