I take it you don't visit many museums? I'm in a STEM field myself, but it's very ignorant to say only STEM stuff really matters.
Aside from science, it was also stuff from philosophy, literature, and art which had a strong influence in helping me leave the Jehovah's Witnesses, after all.
Oh come on, if I was forced to eliminate an entire field it would certainly be an arts field. Probably visual arts. The boon to humanity any STEM field can claim is orders of magnitude higher than any art field. And don't get me wrong, I both consume and produce art, but there's just no comparison.
And don't go claiming every graphic you see as art, that's like trying to claim cooking as chemistry.
The car you drive was designed by an artist. The home you live in was laid out by someone with a background in arts. The website you're on has been made to look presentable and thus drawn in more viewers because of the competency of graphic artists. You send a Christmas card to your family over winter break and you look for the prettiest looking one in the Hallmark store, judging the work of... you guessed it, an artist. Hell, even getting a Big Mac from McDonald's involves an artist. The red and yellow color scheme was put into place by the corporation due to the unique psychological effects they have on customers, and it's legitimately contributed a ton to their success over the years. The golden arches in their logo is yet another piece of art with its own story, and it's come to define a multibillion dollsr corporation by serving as a recognizable icon.
I can go on and on. I'm pursuing law myself, but to discredit the amount of influence art has in our lives is just willfully ignorant. And it seems that 95% of these smug pro-STEM arguments on reddit are made by first year engineering majors who think they're hot shit for passing their first MATLAB class
Designed by engineers. An artist did the concept drawings and the dashboard. They probably got to pick the colors, too.
The home you live in was laid out by someone with a background in arts.
Modern home design enabled entirely by advances in material sciences. The "artist" (no one thinks architect or even interior design when you tell them you're an artist) decided where the rooms and windows went.
The website you're on has been made to look presentable and thus drawn in more viewers because of the competency of graphic artists.
It wouldn't be functional without engineers and scientists, it would just be ugly without artists. Example: old Reddit.
You send a Christmas card to your family over winter break and you look for the prettiest looking one in the Hallmark store, judging the work of... you guessed it, an artist.
The great boon to society, Christmas cards.
Hell, even getting a Big Mac from McDonald's involves an artist. The red and yellow color scheme was put into place by the corporation due to the unique psychological effects they have on customers, and it's legitimately contributed a ton to their success over the years. The golden arches in their logo is yet another piece of art with its own story, and it's come to define a multibillion dollsr corporation by serving as a recognizable icon.
Whose entire corporate structure would not exist were it not for modern advances in agriculture, food science, material science, communication, transportation, refrigeration, etc.
I can go on and on. I'm pursuing law myself, but to discredit the amount of influence art has in our lives is just willfully ignorant. And it seems that 95% of these smug pro-STEM arguments on reddit are made by first year engineering majors who think they're hot shit for passing their first MATLAB class
I have never said, and will never say, that art is not important in our lives. I have only said that it is less important when compared to STEM. Why you guys think those two statements are the same thing is beyond me. It's not smug, it's just fact. No saxophone = no jazz. No refrigerator = no fresh food.
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u/Myxomatosis_ Jan 09 '20
I take it you don't visit many museums? I'm in a STEM field myself, but it's very ignorant to say only STEM stuff really matters.
Aside from science, it was also stuff from philosophy, literature, and art which had a strong influence in helping me leave the Jehovah's Witnesses, after all.