In the popular imagination, entertainment and diversion laden with visuals increasingly obscures direct personal experience.
The "pop mind" is necessarily one that is formed and focused through collective ideas, imagery, and subjection to immediacy, an authoritarian mass conformity of attention. Clearly, such a burden upon consciousness degrades contemplative reflection and gives rise to a host of social issues caused by mental and emotional impediments to existential freedom.
Neither engagement nor disengagement is the way of the artist. It is the integrity of the creative work that is the essential element.
The "pop mind" is necessarily one that is formed and focused through collective ideas, imagery, and subjection to immediacy, an authoritarian mass conformity of attention. Clearly, such a burden upon consciousness degrades contemplative reflection and gives rise to a host of social issues caused by mental and emotional impediments to existential freedom.
Neither engagement nor disengagement is the way of the artist. It is the integrity of the creative work that is the essential element.
