Is art important at all to the world? Many people have various different opinions on the matter. Art comes in endless different shapes, sizes, forms, and meanings. However, as I read in Rhys Southan’s “Is Art a Waste of Time”, art to many means nothing at all.  People he calls “EA’s”, people who are part of a program called “Effective Altruism” that basically devote their lives to working to get money for the needy. These people spread a message to the world that says, if you’re not trying to get the best paying job you can get to help the needy, you might as well be napping peacefully by a pond that carries screaming drowning people. In better words, if you are not giving as much money as you can to the people who need it to try to help end poverty, you are the worst person ever. By having a carer that is in the arts, such as writing, dancing, painting etc., you typically do not make as much money as you could if you worked at some high end corporation office job. Because of this the EA’s, think you are meaningless and your efforts toward helping the world are weak. Where I can agree to some degree that they could be making more money, only in some cases, I disagree where it means saying that art and people who have careers in the arts mean nothing. Looking at he image of the pages I posted, page 436, next to the second paragraph I noted/reacted by saying “People are shut down so easily by a group of people. If you’re confident in you beliefs, KEEP THEM!”.  In the second paragraph Southan describes how slowly he almost starts to believe the EA’s in saying that art doesn’t matter just because of random coincidental acts that made him believe so. Previous to that he had talked about how all the EA’s had to say to him about his art was negative, they tried to show and tell him that it meant nothing. It was a group of people he went to a cabin meeting for the organization with telling him that art doesn’t matter in helping, basically. Then he started to doubt himself. I think that this is horrible, I believe that when you tell someone enough times something, even when it is not true, they start to believe it. With a group of people doing so just makes the process move faster. I hate this, I think that if people have a strong belief about something they should stick to it and not let peoples strong judgments interfere. In two paragraphs, two paragraphs  below this one  Southan talks about how  the EA’s believe that it doesn’t matter what you believe  or what you have enjoyed doing, if at the end of it all, you actually didn’t do good for the world with it, then it is junk. If your art doesn’t help out, then it is junk and not useful at all. Well, I do not believe this at all. I wrote/noted next to these paragraphs “Oh, I don’t like the EA’s point of view, art can bring people together for a greater cause”.  I feel very strongly about what I wrote. At is not useful, especially in helping the world. Art brings people from all over the world together to share the same idea. It helps them realize the bigger picture that the artist may have been trying to portray. People coming together to help support and idea or a foundation/organization in a group, putting all of their efforts in, in my opinion, is always better than one person giving their two cents.