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
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No sleeping, just 10 years straight on your phone.
And three hours a day is, I'm going to say, a fair amount of us are using those numbers.
I want you to reclaim the attention that has been robbed of you, and I want you to use it to make something.
We are a culture of consumption, and we've forgotten how to make.
We need less consumption, more creation.
Bring back your attention, reclaim it.
It is yours to do with whatever you want to do.
You have so much to make.
There's so many things that you have to give this world.
I want you to take some of those 10 years back from Zuckerberg and give it to a project you want to work on.
Making art is activism.
I had a client that I worked with who was in the science space, and they were working in the climate change sector, and she was miserable.
She was really, really struggling, and all she wanted to do was write her romance novels.
but she felt so guilty for taking herself away from the climate change space to do something that is so trivial and so frivolous.
And again, this is the narrative that we have to break down.
We have to understand that art is activism, that it is inherently political to use your voice and to take up space with whatever it is you're making.
Legislation and policy are important, but I am moved by art and the culture is moved by art.
We are impacted on a very human level when we consume creations.
It is political.
You can change the world with your art.
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