#19 - Is creating art selfish? Would you do something that you didn’t expect to benefit you?

Is creating art selfish? How to define “selfishness.” What’s the motive behind your action: To benefit yourself? Others? Both? Would you do something that you didn’t expect to benefit you? If so, why, and how much time would you spend on it? What makes something the right/moral/ethical thing to do? Are good and bad relative? How much emotional flatness will you tolerate? Is there even such a thing as emotional flatness? The purpose of our being here. Robert Nozick’s experience machine thought experiment. If you could take a drug that made you happy all the time would you take it?