Culture demands messages from its artists.
But the arts endure oppression when the sole message the culture demands is one of affirmation and reinforcement of the status quo. There is such a thing as a concept of right and wrong, and within the so- called "gray areas" is a single dynamic of momentum that impels ideas and actions in one direction or the other.
The arts move toward elevation. Without direction, and only reinforcement, culture moves into decline, compelling, if possible, its artists to act as sycophants. These are not artists, but flatterers, lackeys, and bootlickers.
But the arts endure oppression when the sole message the culture demands is one of affirmation and reinforcement of the status quo. There is such a thing as a concept of right and wrong, and within the so- called "gray areas" is a single dynamic of momentum that impels ideas and actions in one direction or the other.
The arts move toward elevation. Without direction, and only reinforcement, culture moves into decline, compelling, if possible, its artists to act as sycophants. These are not artists, but flatterers, lackeys, and bootlickers.
