The OP doesn't say life isn't fine. He says that if we don't aim for perfection, if art ceases to matter because we cease to truly care, then there's no point. We'll eat shit and reproduce just the same -- but there is no point.
He's got a point.
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/series/mediocratopia/
I’m fascinated by mediocrity as an aspiration, understood as optimization resistance and withheld reserves. Mediocrity is slouching towards survival. Mediocrity is pragmatic resistance to totalizing thought. Mediocrity is fat in the system. Mediocrity is playful, foxy improvisation.
I sill enjoy resistance, reserves, survival, pragmatics, fat buffers and improvisation better without any mediocrity I would say.
The creative mediums of the day are tiktok videos and video games.
It is the same line of thought from back in the day that the electric guitar is just noise, people should play a "real" instrument like the clarinet!
Rap is just noise, they aren't even singing! People should play a "real" instrument like the electric guitar.
Tiktok is not art! I am talking "real" art like Marcel Duchamp or Andy Warhol's movie Sleep. No one is making REAL art like that anymore I tell ya.
> Tiktok is not art
These two sentiments aren't that uncommon amongst gen z either, in my experience.
His point is excessively perfectionistic at best, to the point of detriment, and at worst... well, it's pedantic.
Any "important" concert hall will tune the piano before each concert. If there is no concert for months the piano will sit untuned (but still be practiced on), but a piano tuner is cheap insurance that nothing happened. If there are two concerts on the same day they might or might not tune between them.
Of course there are a lot of "small-town" concert halls where the piano is not tuned as often. Your local high school probably isn't tuning the piano before the concert - even though the piano is moved from the choir room to the stage before the concert which is the most likely way to mess up tuning.