The “Spending many years as the only person in the room who gave a crap about basic right and wrong” to “You’re now surrounded by decent people, but you don’t know how to let go of the arrogant self-righteousness you used to need to survive, and it’s pushing people away” pipeline
“It’s not the job of the artist to give the audience what the audience wants. If the audience knew what they wanted, then they wouldn’t be the audience, they’d be the artist.”
— Alan Moore