Blog #2

When I read Southan’s “Is it OK to Make Art?” a second time, I noticed a few more details that I missed the first time around. After our class discussion on Tuesday, I picked up on some of the things that I wasn’t looking for the first time I read the text. One thing I read was that Southan does seem to agree with the EA’s belief that art doesn’t have much power to change the world for better when he said, “I started to feel like they might have a point.”  I originally thought that he was leaning toward the idea that the “world would be unlivable without art”, but now I can see that he is a little more conflicted and can see both sides of the argument. I reacted the same when I read this text again, maybe feeling even more frustrated than before because I had a better understanding and I already didn’t agree with the EA’s. Decoding the text helped me understand a passage better because I would look up the words that I didn’t know or had and idea of what they meant to get a deeper perceptive of the word. I used https://www.dictionary.com to look up the definitions of the words. If I hadn’t done this, then I would keep getting lost as to what was being said, especially if the words I didn’t know came up multiple times.