After reading ‘Is It OK to Make art?’ For a second time, I noticed the Southan pushing his opinion on the audience more and somewhat making EA,s the villain. A passage I noticed on the second read pushes the reader to think EA’s do not believe in people’s personal aspirations “The iron logic of replicability leaves many dreams dead on the ground”. After reading and annotating for a second time I actually agree more with the author than before. I seemed to trust Southans opinion about the EA’s extreme moral stance and found myself disagreeing with most all of what the EA’s thought.
My understanding of the essay greatly increased after decoding the word utilitarianism. Utilitarianism is “the ethical doctrine that virtue is based on utility, and that conduct should be directed toward promoting the greatest happiness of the greatest number of persons.” https://www.dictionary.com/browse/utilitarianism . Now I understand the EA’s thought that everything is just a utilitarian calculation to determine what decision will improve the world greatest
Nice work! Keep it up!