Amy McNee
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first heard Jun 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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TED Talks Daily · The case for making art when the world is on fire | Amie McNee · 12 Jun 2025
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The world is literally and figuratively on fire, and I am about to tell you that you need to make art.
And more than that, I'm gonna argue that the creative act is a huge part in how we extinguish and put out these fires.
And I can almost hear you.
You're like, oh, Amy.
That's me, I'm Amy.
Amy, that is so cute and such a lovely idea.
And it's so sweet that you think that making stuff is going to help the world, but I write horny, fairy fantasy novels, and I really don't think that that's gonna do anything.
And I hear you, but give me 15 minutes because I wanna change your mind.
We're living in a culture that sidelines the creative act, that says it's something for children or something for the retired.
It's an indulgence.
It's a little bit selfish.
It's frivolous.
It's decoration.
It is a narrative that is actively harming us.
It is repressing our innate instincts to create.
And today we're going to look at why making art is going to make your lives better and the world better.
Why art is so incredibly important to you.
And before I move on with this conversation, I just wanna make sure that none of you are like opting out of this conversation because I am talking to you.
And I know that we use the word art and artist and we kind of pedestal it.
And we say, I'm not that good.
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