"if you want more meaningful art, build a more meaningful world"
- Sarah Nardi
sometimes i feel like i live in a cultural void. apathetic hipsterdom reigns in the west for a generation that has had everything they couldn't afford handed to them on a plate. it's the me generation on steroids. freedom from want has translated to freedom from meaning.
i'm in transit to accra, ghana. i packed my bags yesterday afternoon, jamming 5 shirts, 3 skirts, and 2 shorts into luggage full of mac nuts and hawaii tees destined for my homestay family. I haven't really prepared for africa beyond buying a travel book this past tuesday and getting my required immunizations. i don't really want a plan beyond working at Sankofa.
We live in a meaningless world that chooses to glorify the self as a means of cartesian entertainment. the thing i want from africa, the only thing i want from africa, is to find a place where people still strive for something as a society: an ideal, survival, peace, war, anything.
i want more meaningful art, so i am going to find a more meaningful world.
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