I'm not well versed to the point that you are about submitting legal proposals, so I have a couple of questions for you: what, if anything, do I put in the H. R. slot? For the Sponsor Name do I put your name or my name? Thanks for all the work you have been doing for this cause.
Christine
H. R. ____
To establish a guaranteed annual basic income of $100,000 for professional creatives in the United States, thereby ensuring their ability to focus on artistic, cultural, and intellectual contributions without the burden of financial insecurity.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
[Date]
Mr./Ms. [Sponsor Name] introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
I think those items would be filled in by the congress person as the sponsor. So you would just send it as is. They would change or update the details to the current 117th congress or the 118th or whichever one it would be when it get introduced to congress. It might have to be introduced multiple times in the coming years until it becomes obvious that it is a good idea and that the congressional body is the right one to pass it.
The Creative Freedom Act Is a Conversation Starter
When I wrote the Creative Freedom Act, I wasn’t trying to force a policy into law overnight. I was planting a seed.
It’s a conversation starter - a provocation meant to stretch the Overton window - also known as the Window of Political Possibilities - just enough for the idea to get in.
Right now, it may sound radical. But that’s only because the political imagination is still caught in the machinery of fear and scarcity. Once it enters the broader field of cultural discourse, it stops sounding radical and starts sounding reasonable, even inevitable.
After all, if 35% of the country can be whipped into a frenzy over destructive narratives, surely 40–45% can rally around something creative, constructive, dare I say, intelligent. Something that actually invests in the future we say we want.
The truth is, politics—like art—requires both patience and relentlessness.
You have to keep showing up. Keep refining. Keep speaking the vision even when nobody’s listening. And then—eventually—something clicks.
The proposal doesn’t need to be perfect. It needs to be alive.
And contagious.
The more of us that plant this seed in the political garden, the more likely to eventually grow into possibility or even become a reality.
If everything that can be automated becomes automated and any job that is redundant and repetitive that could be replaced by AI will be, 1/2 of the population will be jobless. Soon everyone will have to become an artist of some sort. Work in the humanities, in the gardens, in the care industry, etc. This will be a post-labor world eventually. Not that there won't be jobs of some sort. I have a saying: "if you're not starving, your dreaming." The imagination opens when you don't have to toil. Is that good or bad? We'll soon find out.
My art project at the moment is to imagine a new future and then put out ideas and proposals for the creative community to consider. To provoke conversation before the upcoming mid term election in the US.
OK, thanks.
Hi Cecil,
I'm not well versed to the point that you are about submitting legal proposals, so I have a couple of questions for you: what, if anything, do I put in the H. R. slot? For the Sponsor Name do I put your name or my name? Thanks for all the work you have been doing for this cause.
Christine
H. R. ____
To establish a guaranteed annual basic income of $100,000 for professional creatives in the United States, thereby ensuring their ability to focus on artistic, cultural, and intellectual contributions without the burden of financial insecurity.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
[Date]
Mr./Ms. [Sponsor Name] introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
I think those items would be filled in by the congress person as the sponsor. So you would just send it as is. They would change or update the details to the current 117th congress or the 118th or whichever one it would be when it get introduced to congress. It might have to be introduced multiple times in the coming years until it becomes obvious that it is a good idea and that the congressional body is the right one to pass it.
The Creative Freedom Act Is a Conversation Starter
When I wrote the Creative Freedom Act, I wasn’t trying to force a policy into law overnight. I was planting a seed.
It’s a conversation starter - a provocation meant to stretch the Overton window - also known as the Window of Political Possibilities - just enough for the idea to get in.
Right now, it may sound radical. But that’s only because the political imagination is still caught in the machinery of fear and scarcity. Once it enters the broader field of cultural discourse, it stops sounding radical and starts sounding reasonable, even inevitable.
After all, if 35% of the country can be whipped into a frenzy over destructive narratives, surely 40–45% can rally around something creative, constructive, dare I say, intelligent. Something that actually invests in the future we say we want.
The truth is, politics—like art—requires both patience and relentlessness.
You have to keep showing up. Keep refining. Keep speaking the vision even when nobody’s listening. And then—eventually—something clicks.
The proposal doesn’t need to be perfect. It needs to be alive.
And contagious.
The more of us that plant this seed in the political garden, the more likely to eventually grow into possibility or even become a reality.
everyone would become an artist
If everything that can be automated becomes automated and any job that is redundant and repetitive that could be replaced by AI will be, 1/2 of the population will be jobless. Soon everyone will have to become an artist of some sort. Work in the humanities, in the gardens, in the care industry, etc. This will be a post-labor world eventually. Not that there won't be jobs of some sort. I have a saying: "if you're not starving, your dreaming." The imagination opens when you don't have to toil. Is that good or bad? We'll soon find out.
My art project at the moment is to imagine a new future and then put out ideas and proposals for the creative community to consider. To provoke conversation before the upcoming mid term election in the US.