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  “Art” is a term which can describe just about anything and everything, by all logical means rendering it useless, yet we still use it on a daily basis to ascribe praise to things we like. How does this happen? Some things simply have more “artistic qualities” than others, and this judgement is based on our personal preferences. Humans are intelligent social creatures, so these judgements often align in a way which ultimately makes up humanity. Within the theoretical vector space of infinite possibilities which make up all possible ways to interpret something, how amazingly humbling is it to think that humans have only spanned an incredibly small portion of this set? Every one of our opinions is not of our own, but of others and our environment.   So what do I believe is art? Well, saying that art is undefinable would be useless, as I mentioned above. Subjectivity is proof of humanity and of synthesized meaning. There’s the dilemma I’ve run into: I can acknowledge that objec...

  We are tasked with creating a 10-book, 10 year reading list. However, I would like to get more into reading in my  rapidly-nearing independent future, so I am assigning myself a 120-book, 10 year reading list.  In addition, a 10-book, 10 year reading list simply isn’t practical considering that a year isn’t a very strong  deadline to finish a book. There is little incentive to build a strong reading habit. In order to efficiently  build incentive, my list starts in June 2025. However, in order to honor the premise of this assignment, I will  try to let the 1st book of each year be a particularly outstanding choice. One thing to know about me is that I haven’t made good use of lists, plans, and unsurprisingly, syllabi in my  everyday life. I’m a disorganized free spirit who lives by my own rules. This has led to many  depressing moments of realizing I’m a lazy dumbass who has accomplished nothing in seventeen years of  life and is hopelessly...