The imagination of the individual does not fail.
Cultural imagination, when it fails, is replaced by artifice and contrivance.
This failure is the direct result of the manipulation of media through which public acceptance of the superficial over the substantive is engineered by those with vested interests in "artistic productions".
The individual artist perseveres, nonetheless, in solitude, while the culture is the worse for it.
And those who are predisposed to equate individuality with the "evils" of conservatism are in the worst, that is to say, the most ignorant and benighted, cultural straits of all.
Cultural imagination, when it fails, is replaced by artifice and contrivance.
This failure is the direct result of the manipulation of media through which public acceptance of the superficial over the substantive is engineered by those with vested interests in "artistic productions".
The individual artist perseveres, nonetheless, in solitude, while the culture is the worse for it.
And those who are predisposed to equate individuality with the "evils" of conservatism are in the worst, that is to say, the most ignorant and benighted, cultural straits of all.
