Amy McNee

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TED Talks Daily · The case for making art when the world is on fire | Amie McNee · 12 Jun 2025 podcast

So because there's no point to our future, it's all hopeless.

We're instead indulging in things like phone addiction, gambling addiction, porn addiction, game addiction.

I truly believe a solve here, when we are consuming so much hard news about the world, and it's so reasonable for us to feel so terribly depressed about the future, is to come back to our art, to come back to our creativity.

And please remember, you can be creative in so many different ways.

Again, no one is exempt from this conversation.

When we create, we have agency in a world that says that we're too small to enact change.

When I write my novels, I'm the god of my own little realm.

I get to tell them what to do.

I get to make the change.

I see my impact on the world.

Creativity is our power to enact change.

It is how we become powerful.

And so many people are leaving our creativity on the sideline, discarding it as just play.

It is so powerful to pick up whatever instrument it is you want to pick up and make something.

The power is in your hands.

You're sitting on the throne when you make art.

Another beautiful reason to create is because it reclaims your most valuable resource, which has been robbed of us, and that's our attention.

In a society that profits from you being stuck on your phone, giving your attention to art is a rebellious act.

That means when you write that little piece of poetry, it isn't just a nice thing to do with your time, it is a revolutionary thing to do with your time.

The other day, I figured out that if you spend three hours a day on your phone from the age of, I think it was 15, to the average age of death, 79, you will have spent 10 years straight on your phone.

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